Example sentences of "[verb] get the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a few like myself , who look as if they wished they were n't there , and would like to get the whole thing over as quickly as possible . |
| 2 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 3 | Thank you very much to those who volunteered , or who were volunteered to help , especially to who worked as hard as I did to get the whole thing set up . |
| 4 | Well we 've got the traditional thing without the modulation to G flat major , |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got the real thing . ’ |
| 6 | And to talk of killing your little girls shows you 've got the whole thing horribly out of perspective . |
| 7 | It 'll be be much more straightforward when they 've got the whole thing on the computer but at the moment it 's a transitional phase . |
| 8 | It could be that the boy had got the whole thing planned , luring Philip out , then having him surrounded . |
| 9 | Recently he has found himself working late in the office , unpaid overtime , trying to get the damned thing right . |
| 10 | Though the groom looked as if he longed to get the whole thing over and done with , he obeyed the dictates of tradition and refused . |
| 11 | Or you could leave it on it 's own , could n't you cos it 's got the white things like dad 's |