Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] get the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | dude , cos I 'm only going to get the piss taken out of my hair are n't I ? |
| 2 | You ca n't possibly have it on a verb , and that 's another little rule you might like to think of , that you 're only going to get the apostrophe on a noun , and you will never get an apostrophe on a pronoun . |
| 3 | Righty-o , I 'm just going to get the washing in , shall I leave it out there until tomorrow ? |
| 4 | He was a great player , and he was just beginning to get the notoriety that he really deserved when he had his terrible car accident . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Well , as I 'm just beginning to get the hang of this sailing business … ’ |
| 6 | He grew his first ones as a young child in 1936 and modestly claims he 's only just beginning to get the hang of it now . |
| 7 | ‘ In the first set , I was just trying to get the ball back in play but in the third set my confidence really came back , ’ he said . |
| 8 | But it is not just trying to get the recipient to learn the ad by rote : it is , surely , trying to give information — persuasive information — about the product , so that the consumer will prefer it to its competitors and buy it . |
| 9 | ‘ Just trying to get the picture , old boy . ’ |
| 10 | How was she ever going to get the chance to think things through if her last sanctuary had been commandeered by an absenting workman ? |
| 11 | A feeling began to emerge that the advantages of the new approach might be long- rather than short-term , but the dichotomy between wanting to work in the new way because of its potential advantages and ‘ Are we ever going to get the syllabus done ? ’ continued to be problematic . |
| 12 | ORGANISERS of the world 's largest military air show are still waiting to get the go-ahead for this year 's event . |
| 13 | When I left he was gazing about disconsolately , still trying to get the idea . |
| 14 | ‘ Fucking brain-ectomy coming up , Doctor fucking Halziel , ’ he said , still crying and still trying to get the magazine to fit into the gun . |
| 15 | I 'm still trying to get the headline |
| 16 | With the vibrant Seventies Brit cults only now beginning to get the recognition they deserved , you 'll pay good money for a copy of a rarer title such as Teeny Bop Idol and Punk Rock . |
| 17 | Would n't it be a greater waste of money though now having got the thing there though to shift it out the way completely Dorothy ? |
| 18 | Readers simply wanting to get the system working should disregard the next four paragraphs . |
| 19 | And now you 're not even going to get the chance to stay overnight . ’ |
| 20 | was actually going to get the information for tonight but she has n't been able to and I have n't seen her . |
| 21 | What would happen well you 're almost certainly going to get the zinc chloride and what have you got left , hydrogen ah . |