Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [modal v] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that Iran badly needed TOW anti-tank missiles and in return for them would get the American hostages being held in Beirut released . |
| 2 | Nearest you 'll get to Tina Turner , dear ! |
| 3 | When the mill was finished , a few of them might get work in it ( but the Flemyngs wanted girls for it because they would work more days ) . |
| 4 | Indeed , one of them may get more information out of it than the author realised he was putting into it . |
| 5 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 6 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 7 | ‘ I think many of them will get better . |
| 8 | Two people can read the same magazine article and one of them will get far more information out of it than the other . |
| 9 | 14 of them will get parts , alongside the professionals , when the production comes to Swindon . |
| 10 | Not just Labour , Conservative , every one of them will get the same answer from me ! |
| 11 | That lip of yours will get you into trouble one day . |
| 12 | If either of you should get into difficulties , help will be at hand . |
| 13 | If you 're both not comfortable with the words used , neither of you will get very far . |
| 14 | That 's why I 'd choose Madonna , too , doing ‘ Live To Tell ’ , which has so many layers of meaning that the simplicity of it can get forgotten . ’ |
| 15 | If , for example , a shy child has been very quiet in what is supposed to be a television interview , a positive way of dealing with it is to acknowledge it as something that has happened within the dramatic fiction : " Most of us would get very nervous being interviewed for TV ; I know I would . |
| 16 | sort of like what happened is that Robert was sort of like , the three of us sort of chipped in and bought it between us and stuff like that you know , so that all three of us would get the benefit of it |
| 17 | But come on , come on , the three of us can get him in . |
| 18 | Since sunscreens offer relative , not absolute protection , most of us can get a tan using high-protection filters . |
| 19 | If you have to put this stuff in I think that you should be obliged to include a joke so that the rest of us can get something from it . |
| 20 | Until the killer can be found , none of us can get on with our lives . |
| 21 | All right , I know that one of us will get the inevitable bottle of aftershave , or talcum powder . |
| 22 | ‘ None of us will get any thanks , ’ murmured one of his aides , sotto voce . |
| 23 | And the rest of us will get used to it . ’ |
| 24 | I tried again , saying we were trying to decide how many of us could get to this wedding and we wanted to look smart , but the only response was that he did n't want to hear anything about weddings , thank you . |
| 25 | Terry was really taken at the time with bands like The Cardiacs , but none of the rest of us could get off on that impressive-sounding , orchestral rock band kind of approach . |
| 26 | Yes all of us could get burnt |
| 27 | Must admit that 's the one none of us could get . |
| 28 | Anyway , surely someone like him could get hold of condoms if that 's what he wanted . ’ |
| 29 | More groups like ours might get going to let disabled people have more say about what they want to do . ’ |
| 30 | Calvados is n't always easy to come by in this country and such as we can get is usually one or other of the commercial brands which in spite of their high prices are pretty crude . |