Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [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 | Any one of which could get you either hospitalized or excommunicated . |
| 13 | If either of you should get into difficulties , help will be at hand . |
| 14 | If you 're both not comfortable with the words used , neither of you will get very far . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | But come on , come on , the three of us can get him in . |
| 19 | Since sunscreens offer relative , not absolute protection , most of us can get a tan using high-protection filters . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Until the killer can be found , none of us can get on with our lives . |
| 22 | All right , I know that one of us will get the inevitable bottle of aftershave , or talcum powder . |
| 23 | ‘ None of us will get any thanks , ’ murmured one of his aides , sotto voce . |
| 24 | And the rest of us will get used to it . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Yes all of us could get burnt |
| 28 | Must admit that 's the one none of us could get . |
| 29 | Anyway , surely someone like him could get hold of condoms if that 's what he wanted . ’ |
| 30 | More groups like ours might get going to let disabled people have more say about what they want to do . ’ |