Example sentences of "[conj] they get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want police like they are on television , like The Bill , where they get stuck right in , ’ says one boy . |
| 2 | He says do you know that they get cooked ham sandwiches and you get toast ? |
| 3 | That would take ages so they 're having land reform as a means to an end and that how that it 's improving living standards of peasants so that they get mass support , land reform was the only political option they had . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |
| 5 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 6 | And they , and they got thirty-odd year ! |
| 7 | window sill on there , say , and then this comes down and they got French windows at the bottom . |
| 8 | And they got little trousers at the bottom . |
| 9 | But some people got twenty six and they got yellow tickets as well . |
| 10 | And they get terrible pay though . |
| 11 | Normally I like looking through books — you know , if they got nice pictures and that in them , but I du n no — I just ai n't very interested at the moment . |
| 12 | Mind you , if they got big hooves like plates of meat you know , great big |
| 13 | I think , I think your find that a lot of these big , big money people get paid according to results , and if they get good results they get good money . |
| 14 | So without risking political suicide , all the Greens can hope for is more visibility , credibility , and their campaign expenses back , if they get federal seats . |
| 15 | Medical and veterinary faculties ( for which the competition was high , the numbers limited ) could lay down that candidates would not be considered unless they got high grades in physics , chemistry and biology at A level . |
| 16 | Senior professors at our university , for example , may earn less than the staff at the nearby Westernised hotel and considerably less than the street corner cobblers or entrepreneur peasants , but they get massive banquets and use of the university 's chauffeur-driven cars . |
| 17 | Because they get strange looks , etc. , etc . |
| 18 | ‘ I should n't really haff talked to a stranger like that , ’ she thought , as she hurried back through the wood , ‘ especially a tramp , but if people drop paper about they really ought to be told , because they get other people into trouble . |
| 19 | For example , in an industry with a few large and many small firms , the large firms may support a trade association to lobby for industry-wide benefits because they get large benefits from it , even though the small firms also benefit from its success without joining . |
| 20 | Now people are n't as open , but that 's because they got taken advantage of . ’ |
| 21 | And when the big men , the Lord Lieutenants and the Colonels of Volunteers , when they get violent back , how do we resist ? |
| 22 | Erm , Derek said , and Derek said that erm that he now hoping you 'd go down and stay when they get naughty pictures ! |
| 23 | Whilst projects were delighted when they got pump-priming money they also had to draw on a range of local resources . |