Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] get [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Do not necessarily try to get DCs agreed at the first attempt .
2 Well , all right , Frankie , I 'd just like to get Tony 's view on this .
3 Erm the inter-club show erm we had to pay judges er two of them thirty pound , we would normally have got Keith for nothing , I know that we had two judges so we had to pay them er we did like so that 's two fifty pounds and we bought some we had some old trophies which we were able to buy plates for to use for that event .
4 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 . ’
5 He would probably have got shop by the local farmers if he 'd been caught but er he used to go on these local fields and er and er sn snare rabbits you see , or get a rabbit .
6 If you 're normal you wo n't have enjoyed this book much ( ! ) — but apart from that you will also continue to get things wrong occasionally .
7 Some of the planned MOX factories will probably fail to get approval ; reactors will be refused licences to load MOX into their cores .
8 ‘ I 'd rather try to get work , ’ said Tess sadly .
9 Magnus could have made one of his rude jokes which would really have got Claire going .
10 You might as well hope to get manure from a rockin' horse 's backside as help from Him . ’
11 They will then have to get money from the dole or the Benefits Agency , which will cost taxpayers a great deal more on top of the £25 billion that the state is already paying out for the unemployed .
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