Example sentences of "[vb pp] get [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had expected to get good advice from Lovat , not a proposal of marriage . |
| 2 | If he or she is apprised in advance of your particular aims and objectives , and work the pupils have already done on the topic , and so on , the session can often be very carefully tailored to get maximum value from the visit . |
| 3 | Attempts are now being made to get protected status for the building . |
| 4 | As she got to the bottom Michele appeared in the hall , and said briefly , ‘ There 's nothing to be achieved by staying here , so I 've decided to get straight back . |
| 5 | Yeah , I said I 'd have a go and before I knew where I was I got got top billing . |
| 6 | It believes Unix is unlikely to capture even 10% of the 32-bit commercial desktop market , falling way short of the 20% or 30% needed to get broad market , ISV and channel support . |
| 7 | A good stance and plenty of wind is needed to get sufficient speed and then the footsteering principle is used throughout the turn with little help from the sail . |
| 8 | You 've got to erm , I 've got to get well Dad 's got the form I can get another one he can , erm the forms have got to be in soon so she knows how many are going to be sort of on the walls you know . |
| 9 | It also notes that applications will have to be recompiled to get full benefit from the chip . |
| 10 | ‘ There are still some going and you 're bound to get preferential treatment of some sort . ’ |
| 11 | And with a Briton involved , the marathon two month battle is set to get massive television coverage . |
| 12 | ‘ It got legal counsel , so we were forced to get legal representation on our side , ’ Mr Robinson pointed out . |
| 13 | Apart from ERA 's determination to find and fund a long term solution to the dampness problem and to prove that their living conditions were more suited to the health of the fungus families than human families , they were equally determined to get Public Health on the political agenda and to dispel the myth that smoking , diet and lack of exercise were solely responsible for Glasgow 's award winning heart disease record . |
| 14 | Delegates in Jakarta were urged to get full value out of every penny spent , especially in the current economic climate . |
| 15 | All were required to get official sanction for their enclosure and to provide evidence of the means by which they were to be physically provided for . |
| 16 | And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales . |
| 17 | This case merited only a six-inch column in one newspaper , but probably failed to get widespread coverage on several grounds : the case was held outside London ( in Manchester ) and the case was not contested . |
| 18 | On investigation , they discovered that the first agency had failed to get proper authorisation from Visa for the transaction . |