Example sentences of "[adv] get [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , they 've obviously got other things on their plates , at the moment , have n't they , that they perhaps feel is more important |
| 2 | Crucial to Mr Reagan 's success was the role in the White House of Jim Baker , his chief of staff ; not only to get good things done , but to make sure that bad things were left undone . |
| 3 | well er he 's still getting certain things in like doors I think and er , what have you , but er , and then he 's going for the D I Y sort of stuff now , I think he 's stocking that |
| 4 | Children have sometimes got personal things to say , like , ‘ We 've got owls in our barn ’ or ‘ My uncle 's got 'em on his farm ’ or ‘ What are they doing in my friend 's shed ? ’ |
| 5 | Bill Saltman is a fantastic character — the kind of quirky , tiresome man who actually gets extraordinary things done ; the kind of man who is so implausible as the director of the New Jerusalem that you feel he really might just possibly bring it off . |