Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these fine ladies and their tea-drinkings , husband-huntings , etc. , etc. , etc. , will job me out of the last ten years , and I fear miss getting husbands too . |
| 2 | A lot of people I know have got satellite television but it is quite expensive and somehow , I can not see mum agreeing to it ! |
| 3 | Most people that I know have got cars . |
| 4 | We 're certainly going to overrun again at lunchtime today because I do want to get Section Secretary 's Report in , and the , certainly the special motion on Swan Hunter Ship Building Limited , so I will take the remainder of the recruitment motions , Report and certainly the special motion . |
| 5 | ‘ In the morning when I came in , I had to help get clients out of bed , dressed and washed . |
| 6 | I 'm pleased I 've managed to get hold of you at last . |
| 7 | Well having now returned to Derby Uni I 've managed to get hold of a mail account , which means I can join you lot again . |
| 8 | The only way I 've managed to get carers is to put up adverts in newsagents , and I 've done that twice — And I 've had about 30 people ring up through that , and a lot of them seem pretty good … ’ |
| 9 | You 've got your shop stewards , your activists , you , in my region , we 've got some great officers , the one that I have , Pat is great to work with , but in the last two years , I 've had to get hold of Pat more and more , myself . |
| 10 | I 've never worked where I 've had to get materials together and you know , sort things out . |
| 11 | ‘ No way am I worth that sort of money , and it 's annoying because I 've started getting begging letters . |
| 12 | and I 've got to get Chris 's birthday present . |
| 13 | No king , ten I 've got two queens on I 've got to get king jack |
| 14 | I 've got to get milk anyway so |
| 15 | I 've got to get Mrs Balanchine to the hospital so she can see her husband . ’ |
| 16 | Yes because I 've got to get drinks and I 've got to put Jordan in his cot for a little while |
| 17 | Yeah I know , I 've got to get numbers as well , I ai n't done them yet . |
| 18 | I have have got Dave all sorted out . |
| 19 | I have tried to get information about premature ejaculation from magazines and I have thought about going to see a Harley Street specialist about this . |
| 20 | This is still a month or two short of publication but I have managed to get hold of a set of proofs which I am sending you under separate cover . |
| 21 | Next , if you want to try to get sponsorship then write to the importers or dealers in this country — their addresses are in the ads of this magazine — do n't try writing direct to the USA , they wo n't want to know . |
| 22 | Ah , and you want want to get dad out of here ay ? |
| 23 | She has tried to get hold of him . |
| 24 | And these are people like you say have got pride in finishing things off , you know there 's a lot of people within groups who do n't mind starting things off but do n't fancy finishing them . |
| 25 | I was talking to a screw one day and she was telling me that when she 'd wanted to get work in prison she thought she 'd be there to help prisoners . |
| 26 | It was Zoya , a friend from work , asking Anna if she 'd managed to get soap . |
| 27 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 28 | Thank goodness she 'd thought to get Naylor 's word about her job . |
| 29 | 42% said they were actively doing something to ‘ avoid getting TB ’ and were asked the open-ended question ‘ what are you doing to avoid getting TB ? ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ You do tend to get thugs looking for a fight trying to join up for my classes , that 's why you have to be very selective . ’ |