Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was always the one cast member who always stood up for me if there were any bleating from Equity members about them not getting their money from repeats , compilations and so on . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't think you can do anything about me not getting an erm they should just pay me more should n't they , if they ask to ? |
| 3 | I feel that there should be four or five other tournaments around the country to play in order for them just to get to the national championships . |
| 4 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 5 | It must have done , Leith realised , for Rosemary was still taking the greatest pains that not so much as a whiff of the fact that she might care for someone else got out . |
| 6 | But anyway , I do n't think they came after us just to get their little fee . ’ |
| 7 | He may be completely landless , or it may be that his plot is n't big enough and he has to spend part of his time , or part of his family has to spend part of their time , working for somebody else to get in some extra money or possibly renting land from somebody else . |
| 8 | Such a map will enable the reader to work out for himself how to get from one location to another within the town . |
| 9 | I know one or two people had begun to despair of me ever getting better at one point but , basically , I have been blessed with a strong constitution . |
| 10 | Mi you know the really old Russian ones , when they I remember when they shot the rockets up and then the bits of them just get left behind in space . |
| 11 | One of them nearly got Rodo when we first arrived here . ’ |
| 12 | So , though medieval landowners founded nearly forty boroughs in the county , few of them ever got going as towns . |
| 13 | There are probably more of them quietly getting on with it than is apparent , though they may not call themselves ‘ spiritual directors ’ — clergy , religious , lay people , tutors in jobs where Christian formation is important . |
| 14 | ‘ So one of them suddenly got rich , hey ? |
| 15 | Look mom , the pick of satellite films mom , I mean three of them only get two stars . |
| 16 | One of them always got the better shots . |
| 17 | There seemed no prospect of his ever getting the technique . |
| 18 | There 's this bloke his well a chum of his actually got his statement and said this ca n't be blinking right ! |
| 19 | I was , however , able to reassure her on this point , as I could see no prospects of my ever getting close enough to any American for him to even ask my name , never mind ask me to marry him — and in the 1940 's you did have to wait to be asked . |
| 20 | I occasionally receive a copy of the NEW , most numbers of which evidently get lost on the way . |
| 21 | ‘ Good ideas , ’ Boyd says , ‘ none of which ever got made . ’ |
| 22 | Ivy houseplants past their best get " gardened " for more permanent use . |
| 23 | Fat chance of you even getting a council house nowadays . ’ |
| 24 | And when your time was out there was no question of you not getting a journeyman 's wages you were you were paid that alright . |
| 25 | If you get itchy patches , do any of you ever get itchy patches ? |
| 26 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |
| 27 | he 's got to wait for , plus the fact that he 's probably spent twenty of it out getting equipment |
| 28 | the shock of it never got over the shock of it though |
| 29 | And we 're not aware of anyone else getting them . |
| 30 | I ca n't think of anything else to get her . ’ |