Example sentences of "[verb] to get [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rowan Martin , who had worked for 20 years with the department , had been widely tipped to get the new post of deputy director of the department , until his arrest in mid-1992 on corruption charges , on which he was later exonerated . |
| 2 | Chelmsford 's sixth gold medal was earned by Simon Bown , an unemployed 18-year-old who is widely tipped to get an international vest this Summer throwing the hammer . |
| 3 | Today I tried to get a whole tin every day , it 's just because it happened . |
| 4 | The coefficient of correlation value is good , considering that we tried to get a mathematical relationship from a physiological response . |
| 5 | For the colt always objected violently to having an iron shoe nailed on to its hoofs ; and sometimes the smith and his assistants were thrown about the trav ‘ us as they tried to get the young animal under control . |
| 6 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 7 | For many years all British clubs used 1,000 lb weak links which failed on any two-seater launch where the pilot tried to get the maximum height . |
| 8 | I am not so green that I expect to get the sole credit on this movie . |
| 9 | LIVING in England , I never expect to get an architectural thrill when I go to a concert or the theatre . |
| 10 | What formula are we going to find to get the ordinary people of Ulster to vote on real issues which concern them and not on the entrenched sectarian issues into which we are brainwashed . |
| 11 | In the wake of a media flare-up over community advice agencies refusing to advise National Front activists , which affected both Union and the organization , a number of friends and colleagues , including us , took the issue to our National Conference and helped to get an anti-racism motion through . |
| 12 | Twins with both DR3 and DR4 antigens appear to get a double dose of susceptibility to diabetes . |
| 13 | Then he goes all quiet and throws some money at me and tells me to hurry up and ca n't wait to get the other boy out of the shop . |
| 14 | Diagrammatically , this implies that individual demand curves are vertically added to get the social demand or marginal benefit curve . |
| 15 | Instead of looking directly for something one wants to get a true belief about , one can look instead for a sign . |
| 16 | With this business of embargo , Liz , I 'll agree with that but the , the off the record , one wants to get the local people very well and you do develop this , this trust , and if you can in fact give them a lot of scope that you know what to use . |
| 17 | Okay this is where it starts to get a little bit complicated . |
| 18 | However , Mr Yeltsin is still far from winning the two-thirds majority he needs to get a new constitution adopted . |
| 19 | The firm went to the Court of Session in Edinburgh to try to get an interim interdict against the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , two officials and two shop stewards ' leaders . |
| 20 | The firm went to the Court of Session in Edinburgh to try to get an interim interdict against the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , two officials and two shop stewards ' leaders . |
| 21 | The Liverpudlian is to use his street credibility to try to get the anti-vandalism message across to schoolchildren in Wrexham Maelor . |
| 22 | IF you want to get a bird's-eye view of London , try Canary Wharf . |
| 23 | Again , you 'll see a good example of that , where closed questions are good in a situation if you want to get a direct answer to somebody who tends to waffle , but again , if you 're asked closed questions and you want to give information , it is harder , it 's easier if you ask somebody an open question and on the film , John Cleese comes up with the starters to an open question , which are the Who , What , Which , Why , Where , When questions . |
| 24 | I want some Diet Coke , I want to get a massive thing of Diet Coke . |
| 25 | " Hazel , " said Fiver suddenly , " I want to get a clear idea of this Silverweed , but I dare n't go closer by myself . |
| 26 | are only ten percent so why are you try why are you saying they want to get the rich peasants when the , the poor peasants comprise seventy percent of the peasant population ? |
| 27 | I want to get the right sort of thing for you . |
| 28 | Well the the situation is also that it 's confusing in terms of Apex , Supersavers , Savers , Nonsavers er you ca n't travel on these trains at certain times , you 've got to plan your journey three months ahead if you want to get the maximum savings and all the rest of it . |
| 29 | be willing to take time away from the office to work in a quiet place such as a library when you want to get an important job done to a deadline |
| 30 | Ms Starnes , who had once worked for him in the news department of WSGN Radio in Birmingham , Alabama , agreed at once that he should cover pending events in Libya for Mutual Radio and promised to get the necessary credentials to him within 48 hours . |