Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make an atomic bomb , a terrorist or a would-be proliferator would need to get hold of only 5kg of weapon-grade plutonium or 15kg of weapon-grade uranium , less than you would need to fill a fruitbowl . |
| 2 | You see , whoever put that poisoned cherry on the cake must have got sugar on his hands , but could n't lick them because of the poison , and could n't wash them because there was no water available . |
| 3 | If I had wanted I could have shouted there , too , but the noise would have got kind of muffled . |
| 4 | From day one , the new government must start to get Britain working again . |
| 5 | " Officers had instructions from their employers that no English need apply and that the best chance a man could have to get employment would be that he could not speak the English language ; then he was sure to get a situation " . |
| 6 | And so the point I 'm making is that , is that a modern insight into Darwinian evolution is based on a wholly scientific basis and social Darwinism may have got Darwinism a bad name by associating it with slogans like survival of the fittest , but modern Darwinism er is n't like that . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps the prospect of centuries of boredom at the end of history will serve to get history started again ’ , speculates Francis Fukuyama , the US State Department official who started the latest fashion for this idea . |
| 8 | Any journalist worth her salt would have got scads more out of the tall Czechoslovakian than she had , she thought glumly . |