Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [modal v] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | All self-employed means is that if you want to you can get up at seven o'clock in the morning and start work at half past seven , and work right through till eleven o'clock at night . |
| 2 | He has the nonchalance of a guy it never occurs to he could get bust on the nose . |
| 3 | ‘ The idea was once word got round it would get the men to go there , ’ said Lynne , now back home . |
| 4 | Most of these , as opposed to Hollywood films , go to immense trouble to get the details right , and by concentrating on the background rather than what 's going on you can get a fine haul , especially with the aid of a video . |
| 5 | Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there . |
| 6 | If she had the sense she 'd been born with she 'd get up from the table right now , wish him a polite good evening , and scuttle back to the safety of the dressing-room , there to make a pledge never to risk being in his company again . |
| 7 | get out before I get you out , quick , if you got in you can get out , get out |
| 8 | If there are four candidates in a constituency — Conservative , Labour , Liberal Democrat and Scottish Nationalist Party — and if thanks to the AV the Labour candidate is elected , first votes given to him will get 100% political representation in the constituency and first votes given to the other three candidates will get none at all : a strange sort of PARR , just like the sort our present system provides ! |
| 9 | And I 'd er went to er we went to You can get you used to get apples . |
| 10 | Alright , no Michael do n't go out you 've got nothing on your , come on you 'll get cold , come here |