Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] get [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 2 | I 've been asked by a market research to do I 've got a tape on it 's for , dictionaries . |
| 3 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 4 | stuff , erm , I 'll I 've got a disk that does interesting little joined up lines , and there 's one where you can just put numbers in yourself and it 'll draw all sorts of pictures for you |
| 5 | The rich peasants made up another seven percent I have to check to see I 've got the figure 's right the middle peasants , twenty percent the poor peasants seventy percent . |
| 6 | I mean got no mortgage to pay out you can you can bank eight hundred pound of that every month . |
| 7 | I mean getting a job on the land ? ’ |
| 8 | I 've got the spare tablets but I mean getting the prescription . |
| 9 | Yeah I mean get the hall but he ca n't get the er you know |
| 10 | I mean to get the tissue paper |
| 11 | The report that I commissioned to get a debate going on why some schools were failing was commissioned from three people whose expertise has not been challenged and nor , as far as I know , have most of their conclusions . |
| 12 | Er being an agriculturalist rather than a planner I tend to get a bit confused by higher planning semantics of the difference between strict control and presumption against not normally . |
| 13 | I 'm , I 'm an alternative medicine practitioner and I tend to get a lot of people who are depressed coming to see me , people who have been through the normal routes |
| 14 | I find it quite ghastly being at home and not working — I LONG to get a job , and meantime , YOUR FATHER and I must be careful about money as the State only gives me £40 a week for everything including local tax ( POLL TAX ) , heating , food , gas , electricity and phone and so on . |
| 15 | ‘ I tried to get a £1,000 overdraft from my bank , but they tried to make me take out a lot of loans . |
| 16 | Well , I tried to get a video cos I wa I wanted to use this section to actually watch it . |
| 17 | And that was the day after ( heart going bang-the-big-bass-drum 'cos I knew what they 'd say ) I tried to get a word in edgeways when they finally fixed my GCSE options . |
| 18 | I tried to get a lift from every vehicle that passed , but Oliver only stuck out his thumb at cars he really wanted to ride in , and sometimes even scowled at drivers whose cars he disapproved of . |
| 19 | Yesterday , after that tearful reunion with my suitcase , I tried to get a negro hand-slapping thing going with Felix . |
| 20 | When it stopped bouncing on what were left of its shock absorbers , I tried to get the driver 's door open but it , and the passenger door , were jammed shut . |
| 21 | I tried to get the money . |
| 22 | Strange one again , but that 's when , when I tried to get the lightning . |
| 23 | I tried to get the trade unions into a form which made my managerial activities easier rather than trying to let them find a consensus between themselves . |
| 24 | I tried to get the book for my sister-in-law for her birthday but most places were sold out . |
| 25 | I tried to get the dog destroyed , but the vet suggested I have a re-think , so then we had it placed . |
| 26 | At the age of twelve , I tried to get an audition for a place in the Suffolk Junior Strings , but the man who was organising it , said : ‘ had you played the viola , you would have got in . ’ |
| 27 | In the end , to please her , I promised to get a job in six months ' time . |
| 28 | ‘ I want to be a novelist , but first I want to get a degree and ffeatherstonehaugh 's makes that possible . ’ |
| 29 | I want to get a bit of |
| 30 | ‘ I want to get a bug in there . |