Example sentences of "[pron] a [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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1 | Out-of-favour Neil Webb is giving himself a two-month deadline to get back into favour at Old Trafford . |
2 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
3 | That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops . |
4 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
5 | I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there . |
6 | " It has taken me a long time to get here , " said the jubilant Mancunian as he left the press centre to start his celebrations . |
7 | All of this is giving me a good opportunity to get up to speed quickly on AEA and the various issues we face . |
8 | It 's gon na cost me a fair bit to get lines to the house I want so I 've got , er I , the problem is with , as dad was saying this morning , the majority of people when they 're starting their business they go to the wall because oh they 're going in for the , oh it 's gon na be a quick sale |
9 | THE drivers who moaned about the parking problems at the Genesis concert at Knebworth because it took them a long time to get out make me mad . |
10 | No plenty of bloody but no or see he forgot to go up and help was busy on Boxing Day they wo n't pay , they give them a free ticket to get in . |
11 | Planting now will give them a damp season to get the roots established before next spring . |
12 | It had taken her a long time to get over that . |
13 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
14 | I think it a good excuse to get away from his family . |
15 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |
16 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
17 | It took us a good while to get to the location . |
18 | There 's no panacea ; er it will take us a little while to get our programmes in place and to get them producing results . |
19 | When the film finally ran out of their cameras , an ambisexual person in headphones said , ‘ Can you give us a funny line to get people to watch Telethon , Maureen ? ’ and ‘ Action ! ’ |