Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 2 | ‘ I had some trouble getting these , old chap . |
| 3 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 4 | Now I have another week to get my fitness up to the right level . ’ |
| 5 | Do you have any plans to get married ? |
| 6 | The missions are mercifully short so you 'll often lose it only seconds from home , encouraging you to have another try to get through one more mission . |
| 7 | As a foreigner she had great difficulty getting admitted there as an apprentice , but eventually succeeded with assistance from the Duke of Orleans . |
| 8 | She had great difficulty getting herself accepted on a government-sponsored TOPS course because she was considered over-qualified . |
| 9 | She had ten minutes to get out of this jam , park and make it to the office . |
| 10 | Once you 're retired you have three months to get out . |
| 11 | And it goes and when it goes off you have ten seconds to get up at night then |
| 12 | We had great difficulty getting information on the atomic energy privatisation measure . |
| 13 | We had two minutes to get into cover and walked round to the other side of the wall and crouched down with our hands over our ears and our helmets firmly strapped on . |
| 14 | ‘ But I thought we had all day to get to the school , ’ remarked Endill . |
| 15 | We had one chance to get it right and , thank God , we succeeded . |
| 16 | We had one lift to get everything up and down . |
| 17 | And we had terrible job getting a contract off him . |
| 18 | Last week a husband took his wife out for a drive and we had 45 minutes to get the place ready , wine chilled , chandeliers , and have a lobster dinner ready on the table by the time they got back . |
| 19 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | Son died first the mother died five weeks later , we had wonderful fun getting that one sorted out . |
| 21 | We have real difficulties getting financial information regarding the National College . |
| 22 | Had they had any problems getting labour ? |
| 23 | She says that the bailiffs came very early and told everyone they had 10 minutes to get out . |
| 24 | They had three days to get the boat to the South Coast for Cowes Week . |
| 25 | Violent abuse , death threats , bomb warnings and evangelical types were also far more common on the phones then , though received Switchboard wisdom says that 's because they have more trouble getting through now and tend to get discouraged and give up quicker than genuine callers . |
| 26 | He has several times got himself into a position of strength in his battle with parliament , and bartered it away for short-term gains . |
| 27 | ‘ He did not know a great deal about navigation , although he had enough fuel to get to France , but all he had with him was a holdall with a spare pair of shoes , a sandwich and a sports diary with a map of the world in it . ’ |