Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not impressed either by the Department 's argu ment that to have revoked the licence would have triggered a dis orderly collapse , allowing the smart money to get out and leaving pen sioners high and dry . |
| 2 | The idea was that the United Nations arms embargo on ex-Yugoslavia should be lifted to enable the Bosnian Muslims to get the heavy weapons they need . |
| 3 | Gary Smith : ‘ You learn to pull the right triggers , push the key words to get the money . |
| 4 | Indeed , had it not been for the blazing row with Mama she would still be living with her parents , seeing Charlie twice a week and helping the wounded airmen get back their confidence . |
| 5 | She helped the little ones to get washed and dressed ; she helped them to play and draw and read . |
| 6 | I urge the hon. Gentleman to get a copy of the Evening Standard every night and to have a look . |
| 7 | W w w er what alternative has the rich peasant got ? |
| 8 | Have we seen the best of Rosa Mota , or has the sprightly Portuguese got something up her sleeve for Barcelona , the last major championships she plans to run ? |
| 9 | Has the little hatchback got what it takes to succeed in one of Europe 's toughest markets ? |
| 10 | Central London , where even Hitler 's bombs never stopped the daily pinta getting through , may be the first area where the milkie becomes an extinct species . |
| 11 | Thon wee Marie Tress that used to work the upper circle got stuck ahint the safe in the office way him an he vernear tane the blouse affer . |
| 12 | I want the National Government to get every vote possible . ’ |
| 13 | Stroud MP Roger Knapman has taken up Martin 's case , and is pressing the Foreign Office to get him released on bail : |
| 14 | Lawns may need a selective weedkiller to get rid of dandelions and other weeds yet leave your grass unharmed , while the systematic weedkiller , Tumbleweed , will deal with bindweed and ground elder . |
| 15 | I think we really do need a well-known patron to get our work recognised , preferably somebody who loves Labradors ! |
| 16 | I , I helped a young girl get an old lady onto the er train |
| 17 | ‘ I want this room cleaned , and I want a warm bath got ready for Mrs Duncan . ’ |
| 18 | We went to Washington to talk to the IRS and said , ‘ Look , honest donors want a reputable place to get appraisals and we think dealers are best qualified to provide it ’ . |
| 19 | They say a whole village got swept away once — and a church , another time . |
| 20 | We stopped and built a makeshift shelter to get away , as best we could , from snow that filtered its way through every opening to produce melt water that trickled coldly over us . |
| 21 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 22 | Other commandos may have got ashore for — as mentioned earlier — some German guns were silenced beyond John Roderick 's objectives , but after landing no other commandos got away in the MLs . |
| 23 | A former army captain , Jane Turpin , used a fake CV to get a top secretarial job at Europarks where she photocopied documents and sent regular reports about the company and its personnel to Layton via Hewitt . |
| 24 | I would say that , I mean take Uganda as an example again , the permanent secretary who demanded a certain fee before he 'd consider a certain company got the push from government . |
| 25 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 26 | Nobody in the SDLP criticised Currie for his espousal of Thatcherism or for the fact that he stood against and defeated a Labour candidate to get into the Dail . |
| 27 | The church planting team often has an obvious opportunity to get involved with secular organisations in that it will often meet in a secular building . |
| 28 | The quality of product delivered by BR management is experienced daily by the many thousands who travel to and from Waterloo , where the indicator boards are frequently inactive at peak travel time in the evening , and only the desultory , forlorn and uncertain voices of junior staff is available to advise hapless passengers over the tannoy when and where they might expect to find an uncancelled train to get them home on time — if they are lucky — and to deliver an occasional apology . |
| 29 | Government needs to provide an immediate impetus to get the economy moving . |
| 30 | This common practice allows the exhausted mothers to get some sleep after giving birth . |