Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] get [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When industrial interest groups failed to get help , they took political action against the military .
2 I am especially grateful to my hon. Friend the Minister for Roads and Traffic , who has paid particular attention to the problem over recent months to try to get things right .
3 The initial allocation of system design responsibility was negotiated between the four aircraft companies , Deutsch Aerospace , British Aerospace , Carsa and Allenia and against the background of an M O U which said we must share the technology on this project between the four nations and in a particular way which ensures that each of the nations has got access to all the high technology aspects of the project er therefore the individual companies identified those areas of the project , were they felt they either could lead best or wish to lead and for the United Kingdom British Aerospace erm identified the avionics system integration as the major complex task that they would take responsibility for .
4 RESEARCH to establish what sources schools use to get information about farming has been commissioned by the NFU .
5 Your Mum 's fucking fanny is so wrinkly the crabs have got walking sticks .
6 But if we get , we , it seemed to me I mean Deborah raised it and I think there is a way of doing it , which would be for example erm looking at the agreements , how many schools have got agreements ?
7 Well , yes of course , I mean I , the schools have got programs I mean you can , you know they er
8 I know , all the shops have got father christmas .
9 ‘ But all the lads have got confidence in me .
10 He 's he 's out yes and there are two or three in which have erm you know they 're sorry that they 've gone back and er we feel sorry sort of for them that they 've dropped into and a lot of our young lads have got mortgages and all that but there are some gone back er they need not people erm they 'd finished rearing their families and everything .
11 It is n't quite that cut and dried , but if you are signed to a small company with any degree of commitment , you can be sure that the company and their staff are in their weekly meetings pushing to get results from your music .
12 There was a rival demonstration by about 2,000 Communists and , according to various estimates , 500 Communists managed to get tickets into the hall .
13 The mercenaries had to get hold of their horses somewhere in Fife , and there were always distractions .
14 He had been touring in the liberated areas trying to get agriculture going again .
15 Youngsters struggle to get jobs in Tokyo .
16 Yeah , erm when we went in there for a few times used to get headaches and that .
17 To quote one Brazilian professor , ‘ Everyone over the age of three years has got scabies ’ .
18 Both family planning and soil conservation are activities which governments attempt to get people to undertake .
19 Meanwhile , the boys and girls at Microsoft are working 70 and 80 hour weeks trying to get NT out as soon as possible .
20 Meanwhile , the boys and girls at Microsoft are working 70- and 80-hour weeks trying to get NT out as soon as possible .
21 What you also get is the storks have got nest sites in chimneys so you get the storks , so what you 've got is nest sites for people and storks increase together , so there 's an intervening variable .
22 Figures designed to get headlines not make headway .
23 Worrying about how to build more aeroplanes has got aircraft-builders ' minds off their big worry of two years ago : how to compete with Boeing .
24 If any problems arise get advice from the Citizen 's Advice Bureau or Trading Standards Department .
25 Most PC software did n't have a Macintosh counterpart and even if it did users had to work the magic of the asynchronous communications link to get data back and forth .
26 How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles .
27 ‘ But the other Sergeants have got communicators ’ — began Akbar .
28 The Provos have got contacts everywhere .
29 Some of my friends has got silver in .
30 Just as well there 're computer programs like Calendar Creator plus for Windows to help get things organized .
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