Example sentences of "[verb] get a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean effectively what you 're saying is that York has got a capacity for about another three thousand three hundred dwellings ? |
| 2 | You will need to get a receipt for the materials if you do the work yourself or the bill from the contractor if you have the work done for you . |
| 3 | It is worthwhile practising timed starts to get a feel for how fast your yacht accelerates and slows down , and how long it takes to cover a certain distance . |
| 4 | We were just talking , you know , how she 'd got a thing for me . |
| 5 | He thought he 'd got a job for life when he got his old mate Humphrey in as master — they were at school together , you know — but all that 's backfired pretty badly . |
| 6 | She paid thirty five pounds for a perm , and she got a fiver , she 'd got a coupon for a fiver off . |
| 7 | So the letting officer from one of them said they 'd got a house for me . |
| 8 | ‘ Nick Serota and I are lobbying to get a curator for the collection , ’ Mr Wheatley tells me . |
| 9 | No , I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain . |
| 10 | I mean h he under he says this is , you know a very nice house and he would n't normally expect to get a room for twenty five pounds in a house of that character . |
| 11 | What , what we need to do we 've got a handout for you on this so you can spend more time looking at yourself , or what you need to do is you need to compare your scores against those rather than just take the highest one . |
| 12 | When are we going to get a Society for the Prevention of Birds or , failing that , at least a society for the prevention of seagulls and starlings ? |
| 13 | No animal is going to get a taste for nome . |
| 14 | He could hardly know he was going to get a show for his efforts , could he ? ’ |
| 15 | " We 've told you we 're not going to get a wedding-dress for you , " Kate said . |
| 16 | As far as Europeans are concerned , they 'll undoubtedly come here , as we are going to be travelling to France and Germany and Italy and wherever , but I think it 's getting the North American tourists convinced that it 's going to be okay here , they 're going to get a value for money holiday . |
| 17 | The rock is a unique form of conglomerate , so warming up on a few practice routes was needed to get a feel for it . |
| 18 | ‘ Looking at the controls on the Crate — seven band graphic equaliser , limiter , pre-shape — you seem to get a lot for your dosh ! ’ £369 in this case … comments ? |
| 19 | As well as getting used to tapping ‘ Enter ’ less often , you should try to get a feel for how hard to tap a key and how long to hold it down . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll have to get a frame for it , ’ said Connor , ‘ before you wear it to pieces , passing it around . ’ |
| 21 | You 'll have to get a car for a . |
| 22 | okay just the coffee that 's lovely she 's just gone to get a book for some homework . |
| 23 | and he managed to get a ticket for a week |
| 24 | ‘ But I managed to get a shilling for the horsehair chair , with the bed thrown in . ’ |
| 25 | So I wrote him a letter , told him I 'm here , I ca n't get a job , so he managed to get a job for me . |
| 26 | But by that time a renewed coalition and a coalition election would not be arranged to get a mandate for war so much as to reap the benefits of victory . |
| 27 | Erm now , of course , we 'd wear a jersey and boots quite happily , but er I did get a grant for clothing because otherwise there was no way of goin of accepting a scholarship . |
| 28 | Now in those days you never got an album deal from a record company unless you had a hit single , but I made up my mind that the sort of stuff he had would make a very good album , so I went to Decca with that view in mind , trying to get an album deal , and did get a deal for him . |
| 29 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 30 | I 've I 've got a feel for people who go in . |