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

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1 He just wants to get sweets out of me , that 's the thing !
2 It is a mix of staff , says Shandell , which also helps get things done when dealing with ministerial bureaucracy .
3 He really wants to get things right .
4 That body 's president has welcomed the formation of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa ( NOCSA ) , representing all sorts of rival sporting associations , whose chairman , Sam Ramsamy — a veteran campaigner for the sports boycott — now wants to get South Africans back into international competition .
5 And it 's got victory written in small letters all over it and of course the v for victory and this this particular design here has got items of clothing and the number of coupons required for each item scattered over .
6 I wonder if this man here 's got buttons on today .
7 Well they 've got that girl over there 's got soup .
8 If everyone else has got boy or girl friends , so what ?
9 And although I do not agree with them that either suicide or anorexia are attempts to ‘ get attention ’ , but rather attempts to get identity and wholeness , the following passages may serve to illustrate the paradoxical type of thinking which dominates both states of mind .
10 The experiential approach therefore tries to get pupils in communication with the depths in themselves so that they may have some idea of what that is like for other people , as well as helping them to be more truly " present " in what they are studying .
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