Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tsu Ma sat close by the old man , keeping silent , while Li Yuan went to get drinks . |
| 2 | There was a secret somewhere , though , that Thérèse had to get hold of and understand . |
| 3 | People tend to get hold of wrong ideas , just as you did last night . ’ |
| 4 | If we are at an early stage of the work , still looking around for ideas and still perhaps ‘ hypothesis-seeking ’ , it is likely that we shall want to talk to people to try to get help , stimulation , new viewpoints , and so on . |
| 5 | The director of immigration — who had already received $150 a head for the landing permits which had not been honoured — suggested to the shipping line a fee of $250,000 to help get decree number 937 rescinded . |
| 6 | Well then people started to get balers of their own and er d I did n't er get so much work . |
| 7 | ‘ I just thought people did get books published , ’ she said lamely . |
| 8 | ‘ People do get work that way but it 's horrible to sit and watch at those parties where there 's so much competition and everyone 's running around in tight frocks getting drunk ’ , she says . |
| 9 | No just private people trying to get work . |
| 10 | After these Moodswings people had gotten Chrissie 's agreement to appear on the record , it probably took no more than five minutes to make , but it 's still great . |
| 11 | But if there was a reduction in usage , if there was a reduction in usage , because people had got water meters in , then our charges or our costs for providing additional security er in terms of more reservoirs , increased pumping etcetera etcetera , would would be reduce . |
| 12 | yeah , that 's true it does show ya that it can grow though do n't it , not the hair I mean AI AIDS you know if you shave somebody head and got AIDS and you shave his head , he cuts them both , that 's it , two people 's got AIDS just like that . |
| 13 | Some people have got work to do . |
| 14 | ‘ All right , but … these people have got connections with somebody . |
| 15 | Yeah it 's one thing that er we have to reem reemphasize to people and usually I do it on the phone , that if people have got businesses erm the way look at it there 's such a commitment by this company |
| 16 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |
| 17 | Well I think most people have got shoes Vicki ! |
| 18 | Despite its success — eight out of 11 young people have got jobs — no definite funding has been body . |
| 19 | When I go to other er council buildings er throughout the area they 've all got these little er digital locks and people have got cards to get in and out with . |
| 20 | The cluster I found particularly er important and so like yourself the Aldershot method and structured thought patterns er the cluster was important er because as you say when people have got nerves they need to get some basic guidelines for overcoming the problem er we all tend to put our hands in our pockets and stand rooted to the spot and all the rest of it but there are ways of overcoming it , it 's just a matter of practice erm the Aldershot method is er obviously a very effective method erm if you get into the habit of doing it in threes er erm you see every day you use the news at ten news at ten analogy obviously |
| 21 | You see there 's peo the people have got commitments and they 're not wanting to take them on . |
| 22 | But if there 're a lot of people have got evenings you know |
| 23 | Well I think so many people have got colds |
| 24 | Lots of people have got faxes . |
| 25 | The moment that we have the faintest suspicion that the rats or mice on board Silver Salmon have got plague we retire to the golf course for good . |