Example sentences of "[vb past] was get the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the biggest problem we foresaw was getting the job done in two to three weeks ( plus weekends ) we have available , and this mainly depended on timely delivery of materials . |
| 2 | One idea I had was to get the teddy bears to do the ‘ hokey cokey ’ [ p.67 ] with the children putting in their teddies ' left arms and shaking them about . |
| 3 | All that now remained was to get the next couple of weeks over — have the party , get Karl away , see Erika settled , get the business of the accident cleared up and then , although he did not normally think in melodramatic terms — then the future ! |
| 4 | The fact that Bunn had both the guarantee and the charge drawn up and executed both by the husband and himself on Friday , 23 July , and his evidence that the wife 's attendance on the Monday was , so far as he was concerned , a mere formality , shows that all that remained was to get the wife 's signature in accordance with bank policy . |
| 5 | The manager was okay — all she wanted was to get the place calmed down — and she showed us out the back way . ’ |