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 | That 's why one difference for example , is that the feminist movement in Europe has got very weak ties to the political movement . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ My dad has got very spiky hair and glasses and his face looks like mine , but he still has all his teeth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He does not talk about philosophy any more : he has got too many grenades in his pockets . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Governors generally tried to get as much support as possible from the Legislative Council , and they usually succeeded . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But there is every reason to try to get as much support for change as possible . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Labour Representation Committee was set up in 1899 to try to get more working men elected to Parliament . |
| 16 | They were the big surprise at Phillips ' auction of collectors ' items in Oxford , they were only expected to get about fifty pounds . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to get as many scousers on it as I can , and a lot of women ; I want it to favour women . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 'd got so cold Bri called me Blue Bean . |
| 21 | you know you 'd got veneer and then you 'd got really crappy wood . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | So we 'd got about forty yards to march to the er the van before we even got that on board . |
| 25 | But I feel that for the smaller and medium-sized companies which are looking to get either some form of institutional funding or some liquidity in their share , it 's very important that there is a second market in some form . ’ |
| 26 | On average , each person can expect to get just 8 kilos of food every 2 weeks . |
| 27 | Do n't expect to get too much back , and usually no letters . |
| 28 | He could then expect to get around four pounds ten shillings . |
| 29 | This is when I was pregnant went to put my name down on the housing list and they said to me sorry you ca n't we 've got too many people on there already . |
| 30 | I mean they could have rung yesterday that 's the trouble you see they 've got so many friends Good girl you fairly worked that bleeding money . |