Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [pron] get " in BNC.

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1 So do n't start getting yourself worried well , have I got an ionization or have I got an op an optical one .
2 ‘ Well , I felt dreadful about it , and one morning I went to see my godfather at the Admiralty and begged him to get me into the Navy .
3 There is normally a strip on the front cover , about the comic 's namesake , Bunty , and the pranks and scrapes she gets into .
4 Everybody knew the tram drivers and used to hop on the front of the car up to the nearest point of the station and then jump off , and the superintendent was on the car and saw him getting on .
5 Raschid who is here today was President and I attended with my own Table Chairman at that time David who not only encouraged me to attend my first A G M but encouraged me to get involved involved in ri in Round Table right from the very onset .
6 The choice of a tie will not make a dullard shine at work or help him get the girl of his dreams .
7 On the third evening of the first week he sent one of his assistants into the dining hall and told him to get on the mike and chat to the campers/diners .
8 Guessing correctly that Bobby was hard up , Bacon gave him £5 and told him to get a meal at Wheeler 's .
9 He had tremendous charm and needed it to get away with this .
10 Rather be home and let you get on with it .
11 It was a hard days work when you went up and down a drill like that , lift the neep and yeuk lift the neep and yeuk and hope you get
12 Journalists just pop them a question and let them get on with it .
13 It is not possible to take separate sectors of administration , appoint an official to be in charge , give him a budget and let him get on with it , because if anything is raised in the press or in the House about this sector , there must be an immediate channel of communications to and instructions from the top .
14 Flip a coin and see who gets to go .
15 ‘ So for no apparent reason , I ring the cops and tell them to get over to Fernley Shopping Centre because something bad has happened .
16 Before the Secretary of State rattles on yet again about European figures , our minimum wage policy and our alleged doom and gloom , and as he has proved himself completely unable to say anything constructive , will he today at least ask the Prime Minister to chuck it in now , call an election and let us get on with the job ?
17 Suddenly there were policemen everywhere who ran into the suite and made everyone get up against the wall with their hands above their heads .
18 No they 're not the same thing , er , cooperatives are er , organizations of workers who come together to provide services , and the County Council has actually provided some support and enabled them to get started .
19 Very dan very difficult you 've got to take steps of blocking off drains and stopping it getting in the waterways and you , you succeed sometimes , you do n't success on other times and this is why er these accidents happen where all the fish and places die and people get contaminated , cattle get contaminated , all sorts of things .
20 Blanks and spanks you get blank and then you get spank .
21 And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room .
22 Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this .
23 Y'know you a you 're going along and they 'll say group , and you write therapy or something y'know and you 've done it and you think whoops and you just hope , and the worst thing is when they say Smith and Jones and you put seventy nine in and you think , shit and y'know they get the thing slightly wrong Draw up a revision plan , pick out the topics that you 're going to revise Any problems , bring them along to the seminar .
24 ‘ Did you ring to give me a lecture or have you got something you want to discuss ? ’ she asked impatiently .
25 His philosophy of management may be summed up as ‘ Pick a good team and let them get on with it ’ , and his attitude to marketing as ‘ Good wine needs no bush ’ .
26 ‘ Now , Charles , if you would calm down a moment and allow me to get a word in , I would be able to inform you that I have already negotiated just such a deal for you . ’
27 External factors include pollution of the environment — the air , water , soil and food ; infectious agents such as bacteria , viruses and other parasites ; the sort of work we do , which can give rise to postural problems ; the people we work and live with ; the amount of exercise we take ; the amount of fresh air we breathe ; the amount of rest , relaxation and sleep we get , and so on .
28 ‘ He got my father to England after the war , gave him a job and helped him to get settled .
29 Tours were organised by Dr Marchbank and conducted by the Librarian , Miss Wright and Ms McGrath , with the help of Miss Cowan and Mrs Booth to round up stragglers and ensure no-one got lost .
30 His father had promised to drive him to the meeting and watch him get the award .
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