Example sentences of "[verb] get [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a political revolution in Paddock Wood in Kent , though it has got marginally less press coverage than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the failed Russian coup . |
| 2 | Many comprehensives are also nervous about returning to the council embrace , notably the 40 previously earmarked for closure or where their high-profile success has got up important noses . |
| 3 | That 's why one difference for example , is that the feminist movement in Europe has got very weak ties to the political movement . |
| 4 | Oxford Union treasurer Toby Lewis said : ‘ Mr Clinton has got very fond memories of Oxford and we are very optimistic he will come here in the first two years of office . |
| 5 | ‘ My dad has got very spiky hair and glasses and his face looks like mine , but he still has all his teeth . |
| 6 | So , so , I think the background , I think , as I said earlier on that keep the photograph simple and I think this one , perhaps , has got too much background . |
| 7 | Just look at this , the sail is far too full for the conditions , the foot is billowing out and the luff is horribly wrinkled which has got too much power there , it 's a bag of wind . |
| 8 | He does not talk about philosophy any more : he has got too many grenades in his pockets . |
| 9 | We in the world campaign which has so far tried to stop armaments to South Africa and its nuclear build up we want to work if possible to build a common security er , arrangement in the region where peace will be everywhere if we can make it everywhere because the region has got so many weapons and arms and military expenditure is very easy to increase when you have growing number of nation states where the people really need food and development . |
| 10 | My understanding is that the European parliament has got so many buildings now including a great new building at Brussels built at huge cost , enormous cost and a new building they want to build at Strasbourg . |
| 11 | And if everybody starts getting very large discounts and the vendor loses control of the market , not only do the buyers lose all their advantage , but the vendor loses its corporate shirt . |
| 12 | McKeever and Huling ( 1970a ) tried to get over this problem by presenting a digit at fixation point at the same time as a stimulus appeared in one or other visual field . |
| 13 | Kate had come across them all her working life , from the solicitors who tried to get off known offenders to the social workers who stood up in courts of law and gave character references for people who should have been locked up once and for all . |
| 14 | Governors generally tried to get as much support as possible from the Legislative Council , and they usually succeeded . |
| 15 | We were in the forest to try to get less deep snow , he was told ; we were going to a campsite that Odd-Knut had prepared . |
| 16 | But there is every reason to try to get as much support for change as possible . |
| 17 | So I 've always tried to eliminate it and Ibanez has worked with me to try to get as little flutter in that vibrato bar as possible by using certain springs or arrangements of springs . |
| 18 | The Labour Representation Committee was set up in 1899 to try to get more working men elected to Parliament . |
| 19 | They were the big surprise at Phillips ' auction of collectors ' items in Oxford , they were only expected to get about fifty pounds . |
| 20 | ‘ I want to get as many scousers on it as I can , and a lot of women ; I want it to favour women . ’ |
| 21 | The wedding industry has to get as much cash as possible out of the remaining couples who choose to tie the knot with the blessing of God and every florist in Britain . |
| 22 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
| 23 | , so I put her out in the end it erm it was surprising everybody knew what was going to happen they knew what I was going to do right when I come back in after swi place was empty they 'd got out that door before I 'd got her out the door but erm no it 's it 's very insulting . |
| 24 | I 'd got so cold Bri called me Blue Bean . |
| 25 | you know you 'd got veneer and then you 'd got really crappy wood . |
| 26 | He thought he 'd got too much club for his second shot on the 17th , and he did n't hit it all that hard — a 5-iron — so he came up short of the green , after being in the left-hand semi-rough . |
| 27 | So like , there was me sort of all of a sudden wearing like old T-shirts and stuff in bed so that I 'd got quite high collars and mum was sort of going |
| 28 | So we 'd got about forty yards to march to the er the van before we even got that on board . |
| 29 | The payment of an inflation proof and/or sterling-related salary may be made to get round these problems . |
| 30 | Janine seemed to get up some enthusiasm as her mother-in-law chatted to her , telling her about her own difficult marriage , and how it was hard when one was young and unsure of oneself . |