Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] get the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped them get the over-all view of what was happening here , ’ he said . |
| 2 | All the girls helped her to get the fire going , spread the tablecloth , put out the cups and plates , laughing and whispering and bustling about as they showed her the places and secrets of the kitchen , the room that was now her room . |
| 3 | He really wants the mud to show his best , but I have to say that this ground helped him get the trip . ’ |
| 4 | The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart . |
| 5 | It was after this that Vere Barker , his rather grand agent , helped him to get the house in Hampstead and began to up his fees even for radio — for which he continued to work — poems , plays , schools radio , £10 , £12 , £20 sometimes : it all totted up . |
| 6 | The electorate took a dim view of this practice when the government used it to get the consumption tax through in December . |
| 7 | Once inside her room she 'd called reception and told them to get the police . |
| 8 | No , no one told me getting the push , just said we were getting a new one so I mean that must have meant that we that he had n't Commiserations , but never mind |
| 9 | ‘ She told me to get the small details right from the start — things like hair , clothes , likes and dislikes — because it 's the small details that define an individual . ’ |
| 10 | He , too , was being provocative , quite deliberately making it a clash of wills , but still smiling as he told me to get the bags into the Toyota . |
| 11 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 12 | ‘ I told her to get the supper ready . ’ |
| 13 | And you got you got the man from the Terminator , Arnold Schwarzenegger a big heavy monster build who was in Total Recall , Raw Deal , what else ? |
| 14 | First Nixon purged them to get the spotlight off himself then Ford had a go and Carter ran his own massacree . |
| 15 | Well er we got we got the use of er er of rifles , you know , there were n't many , because they were wanted er they were wanted at the er front . |
| 16 | She watched him get the pony ready , learning all the time so that she would be able to harness it herself in future when she wanted to drive out in Nahum 's absence . |
| 17 | She empowered him to get the tank , the section of drainpipe , the guttering . |
| 18 | ‘ I asked him to get the UFO files opened . ’ |
| 19 | went she got the books back . |
| 20 | Now hove you got the problem that you had ? |
| 21 | ‘ One of the Hamiltons burnt it to get the insurance and made a mess of it . |
| 22 | She had been the last to use it , when she unlocked it to get the morphia for Mrs Richards . |
| 23 | How did I get the job ? |
| 24 | Or did I get the answer wrong ? |
| 25 | Did I get the impression you were n't too pleased about that ? ’ |
| 26 | Now why did I get the impression that you cared what happens to your father ? |
| 27 | Did I get the room number right ? |
| 28 | ‘ Only with patience , persistence and a willingness to approach the highest levels did I get the information and even then I sometimes failed , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Frank is almost drowned in it , then pops up his head and says , ‘ Did I get the job ? ’ |
| 30 | Yes where did I get the state 's interest in other states from ? |