Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawns may need a selective weedkiller to get rid of dandelions and other weeds yet leave your grass unharmed , while the systematic weedkiller , Tumbleweed , will deal with bindweed and ground elder . |
| 2 | I think we really do need a well-known patron to get our work recognised , preferably somebody who loves Labradors ! |
| 3 | I , I helped a young girl get an old lady onto the er train |
| 4 | ‘ I want this room cleaned , and I want a warm bath got ready for Mrs Duncan . ’ |
| 5 | We went to Washington to talk to the IRS and said , ‘ Look , honest donors want a reputable place to get appraisals and we think dealers are best qualified to provide it ’ . |
| 6 | They say a whole village got swept away once — and a church , another time . |
| 7 | We stopped and built a makeshift shelter to get away , as best we could , from snow that filtered its way through every opening to produce melt water that trickled coldly over us . |
| 8 | Whoever did the planning on this job could n't have expected to find a second person getting into the car . ’ |
| 9 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 10 | A former army captain , Jane Turpin , used a fake CV to get a top secretarial job at Europarks where she photocopied documents and sent regular reports about the company and its personnel to Layton via Hewitt . |
| 11 | I would say that , I mean take Uganda as an example again , the permanent secretary who demanded a certain fee before he 'd consider a certain company got the push from government . |
| 12 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 13 | GRAHAM TAYLOR now has a second chance to get it Wright for England ! |
| 14 | All the paper goods mentioned are ‘ repped ’ in much the same way as books , but there is a major difference : the business is much more aggressive than bookselling , goods are generally firm sale only and the representative has a stronger reason to get you to buy ‘ units ’ . |
| 15 | Nobody in the SDLP criticised Currie for his espousal of Thatcherism or for the fact that he stood against and defeated a Labour candidate to get into the Dail . |
| 16 | Milne — who made a brief appearance in the game against Wombats — has done a grand job getting sponsorship from , among others , Royal Mail Scotland , while the luminaries he has persuaded to play include Roger Baird , Finlay Calder , Jim Calder , Jim Aitken , Euan Kennedy , Alan Tomes and Jim Renwick . |
| 17 | The leader must choose a suitable spread to get a borrower 's loan business and yet at the same time convince participating banks that it is a realistic return relative to the loan risk(s) involved . |
| 18 | The club 's now in a mess and it seems only someone with big money and the right intentions can prevent a desperate situation getting worse . |
| 19 | Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ? |
| 20 | At one crowded meeting a British soldier got up and said , ‘ Why is it that you Burmese are always talking about independence and self-government ? |
| 21 | It 's my job to keep a check on the stock and it seemed a good chance to get something done … ’ |
| 22 | I pulled in there as it seemed a good place to get Armstrong off the road and it was only then I saw that it was in fact an unmade road curving away round the back of the hill . |
| 23 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 24 | However , you decide that it might be helpful to ‘ warm up ’ to Le Carré by translating a few extracts to get the hang of his unusual style . |
| 25 | During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts . |
| 26 | Within two months they had made a first attempt to get a suitable building site — part of the field in which the new Presbyterian School was to be built . |
| 27 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 28 | Do children have to cross a busy street to get to it ? |
| 29 | It only costs a thousand pounds to get me |
| 30 | you 've got ta think er think , it was like erm one of the guys was saying oh I 've got a real problem getting the names , I said well how do you ask and he said well look I 'm in the people business John but I do n't suppose you know anybody do you |