Example sentences of "[vb base] get a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We keep saying that to Steve if he ca n't figure out something me and Marie look up and say get a fitter ! |
| 2 | it is n't the case of just being a fireman say get a rescue tender and whirl it up and erm there about , you 've got to get , you 've got to be a fire , if you be a fireman you 've got to get in everything erm |
| 3 | Is the discipline controlled by the big guns , or can individuals — even those without tenured posts in institutions — really expect to get a hearing ? |
| 4 | I find it quite ghastly being at home and not working — I LONG to get a job , and meantime , YOUR FATHER and I must be careful about money as the State only gives me £40 a week for everything including local tax ( POLL TAX ) , heating , food , gas , electricity and phone and so on . |
| 5 | I want to get a bit of |
| 6 | ‘ I want to be a novelist , but first I want to get a degree and ffeatherstonehaugh 's makes that possible . ’ |
| 7 | IF you want to get a girl get a shave . |
| 8 | If you want to get a grasp of what is happening in West Sussex , there is a useful one-page summary in the Housing and Environment the Housing Report which came to us last , at the last meeting . |
| 9 | At least they want to get a cross-section . |
| 10 | Want to get a comedy or a thriller or a drama . |
| 11 | ( If you want to get a laugh , choose a word with a ‘ k ’ in it , say the comics — knickers , knockers and — well , other such onomatopaeic rib ticklers . ) |
| 12 | ‘ I want to get a bug in there . |
| 13 | You s you you 've indicat er you you 've sort of g given an impression that er this er this the centre h depends if you want to get a lot out of it , you 've really got to sort of work at it quite hard to er bring it up to anything together . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , but we want to get a move on . ’ |
| 15 | I want to get a book . ’ |
| 16 | Oh I see but you want to get a place in France . |
| 17 | " You want to get a job , something quiet of course . |
| 18 | I mean obviously I want to get a job to get start getting money erm to own my own car is gon na involve money . |
| 19 | Afterwards , he was to write : ‘ If you want to get a feeling of what ley power is like , go into the crypt at Lastingham church , and it 'll change your life . ’ |
| 20 | I want to get a dedication on your overseas channel . |
| 21 | If you want to get a slice of the action book early — no kidding . |
| 22 | It snowing Want to get a week off school |
| 23 | ‘ Imagine getting a client 's accounts on your computer , with their voice explaining to you exactly what is going on and why . |
| 24 | I hope to get a tour off ‘ Above , Below And Beyond ’ . |
| 25 | We will probably consider repeating the venture later in the season , but more immediately we hope to get a spin-off tomorrow night . ’ |
| 26 | We will probably consider repeating the venture later in the season , but more immediately we hope to get a spin-off tomorrow night . ’ |
| 27 | So you begin to get a bit of intuitive feel . |
| 28 | you seem to get a bit of everything . |
| 29 | Now you have castles grim towering to heaven ; again , a storm-beat wall of cliff , the mist surgings beneath imitating the motions of the waves of ocean ; now you seem to get a peep of fairyland , and think you see the dwellers in a city of light : again , the veil seems as if hiding a very abode of woes , dark places of gloom . |
| 30 | Most of them seem to get a power trip from their ritualistic behaviour . |