Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just need to get cut ah , could n't you use that polish on them ? |
| 32 | It 's an unscheduled stop , but he 's already managed to get clearance . |
| 33 | Gen Morillon was also negotiating with local commanders yesterday to try to get aid convoys moving again in eastern Bosnia . |
| 34 | You ruined your career trying to help a Jewish girl in Warsaw and yet that last night in Norfolk , you still tried to get Churchill . ’ |
| 35 | Aside from the money spent before this season ( ie Shearer et al ) he has spent 3M on warhurst , 2.75 on batts , and is still looking to get flowers 2M+ That s over 7M spent , and who has left ? |
| 36 | Aside from the money spent before this season ( ie Shearer et al ) he has spent 3M on warhurst , 2.75 on batts , and is still looking to get flowers 2M+ That s over 7M spent , and who has left ? |
| 37 | The theatre management urged him to take a holiday , but he refused , not wanting to disappoint the audiences who were still rushing to get seats at each performance . |
| 38 | Because in any self employed situation you 're always going to get people who find something quote better |
| 39 | We 've got a big industrial park at one end and the highways department at the other end of the village so we 're always going to get traffic |
| 40 | Following a brief chat with my fellow editorial staffers concerning such unimportant matters as choosing a writer or an illustrator appropriate to the piece , I will go to see Brian , our in-house number-cruncher and say something like , ‘ Hello Brian , ’ ( I always like to get meetings off to an informal and uncontroversial start ) ‘ I 'd just like to discuss next week 's cover story . ’ |
| 41 | For their money , they got traditional advice — Gover would always try to get batsmen to live up to the technical ideal of Jack Hobbs — put in an unstuffy and flexible way : ‘ We would fit the mould to the customers , not the other way round . ’ |
| 42 | Oh , I think the story goes on from there , because I do n't think though and this is a personal opinion and I I 'd love the Committee to I do n't know tha that er I M R O ever did get accounts out of Liechtenstein because a year later B I M the m the ownership of it was transferred from Liechtenstein back to England but guess who the the , the owner was transfer to a charitable trust , so we 've got erm a company that is handling the investment management of seven hundred million pounds worth of pension funds which is owned by a charity and the and the accounts that were given to I M R O and these accounts were given to I M R O a year later , were charity commission er type accounts , which evidently showed something like five hundred thousand pounds in that charitable fund and er and no transactions you know , so and that company that was running that was the beneficial owner of our investment company where all the errors took place . |
| 43 | ‘ I wondered — I wanted to know if people of my age ever did get books published . |
| 44 | But they still do get nurses due for retirement who have nowhere to go apart from a special retirement home for others in the same profession . |
| 45 | you can , and then I thought well if I ever do get grandchildren , no , I 'll keep it . |
| 46 | For it is the hook of the biggest ever campaign to get people to eat the cans of chopped pork and ham made famous in wartime and by Monty Python . |
| 47 | As the overall Scottish figures show , the ratio of apprentices to journeymen in the trade was high , far too high in the view of the union , which was always trying to get employers to reduce the intake of apprentices . |
| 48 | She 's very muddly and disorganized and I can see so clearly where she falls wrong … when I lived at home it was always a bit of a nightmare because I was always trying to get things straight . |
| 49 | Whereas if the consumer is still hoping to get credit from that source , he would anyway re-apply after having the information put right , so the correction would almost certainly reach the credit granter in the helpful context of an active proposal — under our existing law . |
| 50 | I know what it 's like trying to get alcohol out of your clothes . |
| 51 | that 's what I said to Ron , I mean I 've never known I ca n't remember the last time I when I used to work for Colin for ten years trying to get a holiday out of Colin was like trying to get blood ! |
| 52 | " They 're still trying to get TSA membership . |
| 53 | Erm now I was supposed to check and I 'm afraid I have n't , whether we still need to get sermons from Scotland and Liverpool . |
| 54 | The eggs had all died before hatching , and Boulenger was led to question whether Kammerer had ever managed to get eggs to hatch at all , let alone re-evolve nuptial pads in adults . |
| 55 | We still have to get permission from the deanery synod and the diocese , and plans have to be drawn up . |
| 56 | He also tried to get computing work but was only met with excuses . |
| 57 | ( Mr Barzani was thick with Mr Hussein 's Israeli and Iranian enemies ; Mr Hussein probably tried to get Mr Barzani assassinated . ) |
| 58 | Merseyside is also expected to get Objective 1 status , a designation which now covers a quarter of the EC population including the former eastern Germany , Greece , Corsica , southern Italy , Portugal , Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland . |
| 59 | I also hope to get contributions from the District Council and possibly other organisations . |
| 60 | Companies which find it more difficult because it 's the centre of their existence , erm , are clearly looking at the situation , but will actually take a very long time to move to the position which you , in your particular group would like them to occupy , and I understand that , changing in I C I is rather different from changing at I B M , and er , therefore it takes longer , but I do see a a consciousness , it 's the same conscious , you 're impatient for change , quite rightly , companies of course , have to keep their employees in an earning capacity , at the same time , er , move towards the position which you would like to them to do , and it may take a long time , but I accept your point , which is with some companies , then in fact , your clearly going to get attention of some kind . |