Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] get the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember the fella I used to go with , his grandma Cissy she , she used to fucking get the dog a cup , it was his cup like , to drink his tea . |
| 2 | ‘ I try to just get the feelings across that I know he probably felt . |
| 3 | For a moment she wavered , torn between the desire to finally get the best of him in something , and the equally strong need to stick to her word . |
| 4 | The trouble about starting a very small business is that it 's difficult to do things of any great originality , because you do n't have the buying power or maybe the manufacturing base to really get the thing off the ground . |
| 5 | Ocean needs to keep plugging away , expanding its environmental and distribution interests to really get the City to sit up and take notice . |
| 6 | But when a stranger was picked up for house breaking or shop breaking or something , a complete stranger , we used to send them to Norwich pending further enquiries , and with a request that they be fingerprinted , and of course they used to fingerprint , send to Scotland Yard , we used to then get the record if they had a record with a photograph , and all their previous convictions . |
| 7 | You want somewhere in the region of about four engineers to each school so work it out yourself , it 's quite a job to actually get the ratio right . |
| 8 | Pressure on the MP to actually get the fair-trade mark |
| 9 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 10 | successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it |
| 11 | Erm , we feel we need to move this amendment , cos it appears to be the only way to actually get the council decision implemented Chairman and to avoid a continuation of the wrecking tactics used by the Labour group . |
| 12 | Now I can at least get the pressure off a little . |
| 13 | It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ . |
| 14 | That should at least get the point over to the whisky bottle interior designers . |
| 15 | Better sewage systems , and in London the building of the Victoria Embankment to narrow the river and cover the pipes , could at least get the nastiness out of cities ; and by the end of the century filtered and chlorinated water was being supplied by the water companies . |
| 16 | In this war of nerves , it was infinitely reassuring to know she could at least get the occasional barb past that glacial exterior . |