Example sentences of "get the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do n't , although now you get the estate you ca n't , of course , inherit the title . ’ |
| 2 | On board the steamer the two of them were talking about what would happen to the title if Lord Woodleigh was to die before they had any children , and Lord Woodleigh said — Sven Hjerson 's ears heard it — although now you get the estate . |
| 3 | ‘ But why did n't the first guest get the poisoned beef ? ’ |
| 4 | Get the wing-tip holder to keep the down wind wing-tip high and apply a little aileron to prevent it falling during the first part of the take-off run . |
| 5 | Get the Fire Brigade out . |
| 6 | Get the best sunglasses that you can afford . |
| 7 | Of course , insiders are well aware of the drama which surrounds interrogation and do not need to be reminded or really welcome such information being made public , for as a detective colleague pointed out after reading Irving 's paper , ‘ if we do n't use fear , force , fraud or the promise , how do they think we are going to clear up the crime and get the coughs the system needs to survive ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Get the lyrics , dear ! ’ |
| 9 | Before you get the idea that such a bias occurs only in national competitions , I would like to point out that the worse case of this I ever saw was in a world championship . |
| 10 | If you get the knee high enough , you will even be able to attack the opponent 's closed side , looping over his shoulder and into his head . |
| 11 | They get the shilling , and a golden promise , and they think they will come back alive one day . ’ |
| 12 | He and his brother are going to organize the soundest folk among their cousins and get the word to the boys on the other side from Pitnacree up to Cluny . |
| 13 | We get the joke . |
| 14 | If you want symmetry make sure you get the right number of left or right-handed machines . |
| 15 | The next stage is to go to the manufacturers of the machines you thinking of installing and get the plan dimensions of their products . |
| 16 | You can do the work yourself , use a ‘ network installer ’ , or get the work carried out by a contractor . |
| 17 | They get the ingredients ready but do n't cook until the last minute , preparing the second course while the first is being eaten . |
| 18 | In Crime and Punishment itself the Petrine reforms get the merest glancing reference , and only one , when Raskolnikov 's friend Razumikhin speaks of ‘ us ’ ( compare the ‘ we ’ of the Drunks fragment ) as ‘ divorced from practical affairs of every sort for nearly two hundred years ’ . |
| 19 | You can not counterfeit forty years ' honest work , or get the same result by being a clever young man who prefers vanilla to orange or heliotrope to lavender perfume . |
| 20 | If we look at Pound in 1927 and 1928 , when he instituted from or through Paris his periodical , The Exile , and sustained it through four issues , we get the impression of a man yawing about without direction , as at no time either earlier or later in his career . |
| 21 | They 've improved the chimney recently and it 's very much better than it was but we still get the smells . |
| 22 | Ockrent is still trying to tone down his screen actors — ‘ remember there 'll be twenty feet of grimace up there ’ — but he retains the keenness of a novice : ‘ You get the excitement of a first night every ten minutes . ’ |
| 23 | It is at Labour conferences that you get the sweet nuttiness of Baby Milk Action , which proclaims , ‘ Breast Milk : a World Resource , ’ and tells you , as a fact , that it would take 114 million lactating cows to replace the milk of the women of India . |
| 24 | Why ever did this easy-on-the-ear but over-long piece get the 1986 Jules Leger Prize for Canadian Chamber Music ? |
| 25 | Until we get the full implications of the Taylor Report and discover what happens over the identity-card issue , we will have to sit tight . |
| 26 | Until we get the letter we wo n't be able to do anything , but we will speak to the people concerned . ’ |
| 27 | In the sex-wars , the men mainly get the worst of things . |
| 28 | The problem is caused by the spartan nature of the seats in riot vans , and because police rarely get the chance to ease aching muscles with a stroll . |
| 29 | Get the car slightly crossed-up and the pendulum-like effect of the heavy tail could turn a twitch into a slide . |
| 30 | You 've got to be able to talk to people on their own level , you get the best out of people if you treat them a certain way . |