Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] get [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consultancies all lose clients so they must keep getting new ones . |
| 2 | At breakfast Matilda said to him , ‘ You must try to get those bits off your forehead , daddy . |
| 3 | I should have to get other opinions but I 'd guess they would fetch a good deal of money at auction . |
| 4 | I think I 'll have to get some straws and you can practise drinking out of th drinking with straws . |
| 5 | So I 'll have to get some straws and we 'll have to practise |
| 6 | You 'll have to get those books out the corner , you get up get up get washed and get dressed and we 'll do it now please ? |
| 7 | I 'd like to get nice things but I ca n't . |
| 8 | Before turning to these questions , though , I 'd like to get some reactions to the current situation , and I might as well put my first question to Jossom . |
| 9 | I if , if you could have got some cadres on the ground , you know , so , so the other bit of this is is if you are going to go for land reform you 've got to have , not just the military presence and military security , but enough trained honest highly motivated cadres . |
| 10 | a great extent , they said we 'd try to get some chemicals this morning from him . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd have got lost ages before we did . |
| 12 | you know , quite , But I 'd wished I 'd , I wish I 'd have got those photographs to show off . |
| 13 | I have never heard of anybody , apart from people who may hope to get good jobs in these bogus new regional authorities , who , thrilled by a weird kind of socialist local patriotism , longs for the day when the flag of the East Midland Region is raised over the Great Roundabout of Retford , or the parliament of the West Midland Region holds its inaugural meeting at Telford New Town . |
| 14 | I shall want to get some souvenirs to take home , by the way . ’ |
| 15 | Her hair would have got blonde streaks in it from the sun . |
| 16 | For an ordinary assault , Mr Mitchell would have got two years in jail . |
| 17 | On the basis of that Leeds as a fantasy team would have got 138 points so far this season . |
| 18 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 19 | ‘ I shall have to get extra waiters , order the food , prepare the wine , get musicians — ’ |
| 20 | I shall have to get some bits and pieces |
| 21 | Dealers would try to get other dealers sacked from rival firms , even if they had worked with them once . |
| 22 | Yes we will have to get some curtains that fit in the bay go |
| 23 | I hope that by the time you read this report we will have got several protests off the ground . |
| 24 | Any way that you can think of that will help to get these axes right because most of the time it 's going to be this sort of thing I mean you said , Do you want me to work it you know use the graph or just work it out from this . |
| 25 | COMMERCIAL rose growers are praying for rain so they can start getting bare-root plants out of the ground and away to customers . |