Example sentences of "[vb mod] get a few " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If we have plenty of top Aussies playing , we should get a few thousand London-based Australians coming to the games and the chances are they 'll bring an English mate , ’ he said .
2 Bonnie do n't you think we should get a few more people to go to .
3 But , he adds , he might get a few international tickets out of it , which are as rare as gold dust .
4 If you are short of money , you might get a few pounds for one , but if not , keep them till I return to see you — and our child . ’
5 then by about September we can we might get a few more positive answers .
6 She might get a few days riding from it , but it could not survive for long .
7 No he might he 's he might get a few friends and go out or .
8 Andy Caddick ( ‘ He 'll get a few 0 for 70s , that will be the real test of temperament , ’ Cottam had said ) maybe has n't sustained the outstanding promise he showed at 2nd XI level last summer .
9 I 'm actually also hoping to get , someone who was erm concerned at the campaign to come to the meeting , cos I think it would be very useful to have someone who 's been through it and to say how , how they tackled it , so I think it should an interesting meeting , hopefully we 'll get a few , you know interesting people to come along and we can spend from that meeting campaign .
10 ‘ We 'll get a few bits and pieces , eh ?
11 Here 's a new show — may not be much good — never mind , book Bernard Walton , he 'll get a few laughs out of it .
12 ‘ I 'll get a few shots , ’ Mitch said eagerly , but Felipe did not even glance at him .
13 Mrs er has er actually said that we should be getting some more money and then she spoilt it by saying we should be using the money we have n't got more er better use it and er maybe knocking the traffic li er islands out will save us a problem cos we 'll get a few kids knocked down and we wo n't have to bother with em .
14 I 'll get a trolley , I 'll get a few bits , yeah .
15 No I 'll get a few things .
16 Well we 'll get a few and then
17 book , and I 'll get a few recipes
18 ‘ The team had put on a marvellous display out in Georgia and I thought we 'd get a few more than 6,000 .
19 And sort of , I think it shows a lot the timelessness of , of costume and clothes , because this could be worn , I mean I 'm , you 'd get a few looks , but I mean it could be worn today and it 's quite , it 's awfully Laura Ashley is n't it
20 Among orange mounds of dust and evil black pools the sawyers squatted , self-reliant Lowlanders who perched here like colonists and were tolerated because the sub-tenants and cottagers on the poorest land could get a few days felling trees when they were desperate .
21 We got £110 for doing the gig , but the PA cost us £105 to hire , so we bought beer with the other fiver — and that 's when you could get a few beers for a fiver !
22 I could get a few Copt bankers to club together to find a sufficient sum .
23 now if I was to go there and back that 's eighty pence , I mean I could get , for , for that e extra eighty pence I could get a few things in there that are dearer but I mean I like going down the town anyway and just wander and go back but I do get a few more bits in there now than I did .
24 Let's get a few things straight , ’ he said in a grim voice ; ‘ we 'll be sharing this house , whether you like it or not , and I do n't intend to be the subject of your childish ill-temper .
25 ‘ Now , let's get a few things straight .
26 I 've 'ad this idea for a long time an' if I can get a few customers , we 'll be able ter buy some extra food an' we 'll be able to rent a better 'ouse , with good strong doors not like these rotten ones . ’
27 So we 'll get that sorted out and been talking about it I think the best bet is if we can get a few lessons in during the holidays so that when he goes back to school he 'll be more or less up to date .
28 If we can get a few more accepted under their responsibility so be it .
29 if she can get a few bottles
30 Yeah put them in the sale , you know I 'm gon na put them in the sale see if we can get a few bob right , pattern first I should imagine .
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