Example sentences of "gets [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ratso gets Buck an introduction to a man ( John McGiver ) who is supposed to put him in touch with some rich ladies , but he begs Buck to get down on his knees and pray with him under a kitschy lit-up Jesus on the bathroom door of his hotel room .
2 Sometimes the woman gets vegetables from her father 's garden .
3 Because he gets coughs and splutters like .
4 The driver first gets protection of a vestibule in 1929 .
5 An unsecured creditor has no standing to prevent the holder of a void charge from enforcing it but , somewhat anomalously , such a creditor gets protection against an unregistered charge if the company goes into liquidation or administration .
6 The eastern bank between Chepstow and Monmouth gets Offa 's Dyke walkers off to a flying start — there 's superb walking high above the river with sensational views .
7 It is not hard to see how permission can be conceived as something which throws the action permitted into the future : one generally gets permission first and then performs the action permitted after .
8 Nothing was too expensive for Nigel , he gets loads of pocket money .
9 Unless my husband gets money pretty soon I will be forced to lead an immortal life .
10 As in The Big Street ( 1942 ) , in which a soppy busboy Henry Fonda gets money to take a crippled Lucy Ball to Florida , Voight manages to take his friend to Miami , a place already glimpsed in Ratso 's ( and Schlesinger 's ) sub-Fellini-esque dreams .
11 In this way Tao gets money , but also retains its independence : Charig says that Tao Systems has turned down a number of buy-out bids from the US in the last few months .
12 In this way Tao gets money , but also retains its independence : Charig says that Tao Systems has turned down a number of buy-out bids from the US in the last few months .
13 The trust gets money and they pay their expenses and there have been a lot of lawyers ' expenses and the expenses of the Swiss foundation , which is also a beneficiary of this trust .
14 But I ca n't make that point cos it just gets enemies and it just wo n't do , it wo n't do any good .
15 Fink , not surprisingly , gets writer 's block and at some stage the film becomes his fevered imaginings .
16 She gets cabin fever . ’
17 121mph car tester gets ban
18 Golden boy Jackson gets GP flier
19 WHO GETS THREADWORMS ?
20 We felt that really needed to be considerably punchier to attract attention and we would have thought that it really needed to be ‘ New Launch gets Canbord council market a tough new policy ’ .
21 Visual art gets £1.7 million , a boost of 6.3 per cent .
22 I tell you what you wait until he gets teeth and , and he does bite you .
23 I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’
24 He then gets support through informal contacts with employees in the R & D department , in the industrial engineering department , and in the production control department .
25 The manager gets support in a number of ways .
26 The patient gets drug doses that are too low and drugs that are incompatible .
27 cos Alan says he gets copies of that from the Biro Theatre
28 Outrage after killer driver gets sentence of 21 months
29 ‘ No man , prince or not , gets freedom of access .
30 I showed Rudi what I wanted and now he gets requests for them from all over the world .
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