Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are trying to drag them here so as to get direct investment and to get foreign capital without incurring foreign debt . |
| 2 | You know , young , homeless people we pick up on this bus and er , we have , we we 've sort of ended up pursuing their cases with the housing department and getting temporary accommodation . |
| 3 | One software category that gets good attention from shareware authors is speciality databases . |
| 4 | ‘ We have n't as a rule the problems of the petrochemical industry , where some parts of the industry in the past put in huge new additional capacity and got gross over-production . |
| 5 | The population , it was added , was for the most part interested only in their daily problems of work and getting sufficient provisions , and there was little talk about military events . |
| 6 | But the following year ( 1905 ) William Hamilton declared to a delegate meeting of the STA that " even if it were true that work would be lost to Edinburgh , it would be better to follow the work and get fair wages than to see the bread taken out of our mouths at home " . |
| 7 | Take regular physical exercise and get sufficient rest throughout revision . |
| 8 | Perhaps the best thing to do , I thought despairingly , was to find a telephone and get professional help : the fire brigade and an ambulance . |
| 9 | At other times in vacations he spent weeks doing hard reading in the library of Cambridge University and got good talks with Hoskyns . |
| 10 | The integrators will be trained and certified by USL 's Unix University and get good deals on USL 's master binaries . |
| 11 | You pays your money and gets full value from Brian Horton 's team . |
| 12 | All the artistes were in England , but the staff were in New York , and to get money and to get certain things that we needed to do took a long time . |
| 13 | they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all . |
| 14 | I do hope that each and everyone has been hard at work encouraging your class members to renew their membership and getting new class members to join the Society . |
| 15 | He says you go to a pushbike shop and get special tools . |
| 16 | They pointed out that committee members were unrepresentative of the user body but got re-elected year after year . |
| 17 | Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton disgrace themselves with the kind of behaviour that gets other people put into homes . |
| 18 | One of the conservation groups that I wholeheartedly support is the Environmental Investigation Agency ( ETA ) , a small industrious organisation that gets effective results . |
| 19 | One of the conservation groups that I wholeheartedly support is the Environmental Investigation Agency ( ETA ) , a small industrious organisation that gets effective results . |
| 20 | It 's not beyond some people in churches to lift a phone and get young people up . |
| 21 | It 's not beyond some people in churches to lift a phone and get young people up . |
| 22 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 23 | The notion took hold in Vicente at an early age and got serious reinforcement when he arrived in America from his native Spain ( by way of Paris ) and began to form lasting relationships with many other , then unknown , artists of the New York avant-garde . |
| 24 | The kitchen is the only room on the ground floor that gets regular use these days ( except , of course , for the round-the-clock activity in the laundry room ) . |
| 25 | Relief is on a sliding scale and to get maximum relief , you must be aged at least 55 and when selling shares must have owned 25 per cent as a working director for 10 years . |
| 26 | The show which comes to Darlington Arts Centre on Thursday is playing to sell- out audiences on its national tour and getting good reviews into the bargain . |
| 27 | Now if either Phelan or Irwin were to loose form or get injured Kelly would play . |
| 28 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
| 29 | We came to the hospital and got medical treatment and you can see that we are all right . ’ |
| 30 | I mean the a normal week would go on a garden and get free vegetables every day off our garden could n't we , normal time , normal , every time ? |