Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , so it cost a lot to get him half way across the world , but money does n't mean much if you ca n't use it wisely . ’ |
| 2 | Eventually Vuk and Kopitar found a way to get the book published and it appeared in 1818 as a Serbian-Latin-German dictionary . |
| 3 | Well I was watching one of those Antique Road Shows quite recently and I found a chap got one of those little sort of two inch diameter one inch high chamber pots and he said and where did you get this and she said er at a car boot sale and he said and how much did you pay and she said twenty five P . |
| 4 | Postie Jim Goldsmith used a canoe to get the mail through at PAPWORTH ST AGNES , Cambs . |
| 5 | Such a man was Salah Muhammad , of Huaiwiri , who pursued a campaign to get the girls there to attend school after puberty . |
| 6 | The break lasted twenty minutes ; but it was not a complete break for the horseman for he was still in charge of the horses ; and as they were not feeding they sometimes got restless , especially in the summer-time when the flies worried them and sometimes caused a horse to get his foot over a trace . |
| 7 | The fire was discovered at 3 a.m. by a master working late , and together with two boys — one of whom climbed a waterspout to get to the juniors ' bedroom via the roof and the other operated a hand-pump in dense smoke — managed to raise the alarm . |
| 8 | She opened a cupboard to get some rag , and plastic bags rolled out , so , on her knees , both arms working , she at once emptied the shelves . |
| 9 | She asked a footman to get him a brandy , for he was trembling . |
| 10 | ‘ So we made a plan to get ourselves off the ship , ’ Dr Livesey went on . |
| 11 | Mr Crump made a note to get the Honourable Colonel to repeat the full name of the resembled figure later so that he could copy it out and memorise it . |
| 12 | I made a note to get some . |
| 13 | The sooner she made a move to get some kind of official recognition , the better . |
| 14 | She made a move to get to her feet and Rourke 's hand stopped her . |
| 15 | The Jewish law expected a boy to get married between the age of thirteen and eighteen to a Jewish girl aged twelve-and-a-half to fifteen ! ! |
| 16 | We know that Rod Mansfield of Ford 's SVE ( now engineering director at Aston Martin ) fought a battle to get decently shaped seats in the SVE-developed cabrio , and a huge difference to that car they make . |
| 17 | ‘ The Steve Cropper connection came about because he and I got a chance to get reacquainted with one another down in Seville at the Guitar Legends concerts . |
| 18 | Yeah , they got a job to get him back ! |
| 19 | and they got a lot to get in , you know before they start going |
| 20 | The Speed Metal group contacted a psychiatrist to get members ‘ to start talking to each other again after losing focus as to why the band originally got together ’ . |
| 21 | Well no , no , I did n't fancy him yesterday , he was a bit rusty , he needed a day to get back into form , but two winners ; lets mention the other one , that one in the Biddistone all age stakes , Nicholas was there , six to four on , trained by his good lady and half and hour later , in the four o'clock , finish , Shining Jewel , romped home at eleven to one in the Gainsborough Claiming Stakes , a division two race for three year olds . |
| 22 | Her brother did not know the reason and needed a woman to get close to her , and he was prepared to put up with both Mitch and herself to get to the bottom of things . |
| 23 | We were in their hands and obviously we needed a miracle to get us out . |
| 24 | The thief , who smashed a window to get into the car , also escaped with Mr Osbourne 's driving licence . |
| 25 | OLD lag Paddy Marshall broke a window to get ‘ home ’ to jail , a court heard yesterday . |
| 26 | ‘ Old Auntie Mary , she 's seventy-six you know , had a heart attack and Uncle George broke a leg getting her upstairs away from the flood water . |
| 27 | But for the sisters it meant a chance to get to see more of each other . |
| 28 | And I saw a hen get killed . |
| 29 | He felt a need to get out of London , Eric Verrico was keen to see Paris and the £40 Minton brought with him fuelled the ‘ larks ’ all four now had . |
| 30 | His instinct of dishonesty came to the fore again and he thought a way to get the money would be to take the car which he was allowed to use but not to sell . ’ |