Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says that between three and four thousand people in the country have so far registered complaints about the drug with their solicitors — they will have to be examined before any action is taken to get expert advice on how probable it is that their problem was caused by the Myodil injections . |
| 2 | and the one who owned the car was itching to get Joe dumped so that he could turn around and make the slow , crawling drive across town to his home . |
| 3 | It seems the extra help is wanted to get IBM 's division to function more as independent companies . |
| 4 | At last , they thought , the Islands Council was beginning to get things right . |
| 5 | If you 've got a spouse and children then the spouse is going to get household goods and personal effects , the ordinary everyday things in the house and the first seventy five thousand pounds . |
| 6 | If one person is prevented getting AIDS by this officer , we 've paid for that person for two years , and I think practically every one of these posts that Queenie takes great offence at is producing a useful end product , and the other point is that Government legislation year after year after year puts more responsibilities on the City Council , the new Environmental Protection Act is a good example . |
| 7 | RoSPA are trying to get supermarkets to change the design of their trolleys , and to give clear guidance to customers . |
| 8 | Control were trying to get hold of him , to verify that he had accidentally triggered his window alarm . |
| 9 | The district was determined to get action on long-standing problems , for example , reducing waiting times in certain specialities , or making clinicians travel to patients for outpatient clinics at a peripheral community hospital , rather than make patients travel to the DGH . |
| 10 | As Britain has a special responsibility towards her and her country , can the Minister tell the House what action our ambassador is taking to get access to her and to secure her release ? |
| 11 | The most important thing I learnt was that the lawyer 's job in local government is to help get things done rather than provide elegant reasons for doing nothing . |
| 12 | Other ideas were around and one cynic remarked ‘ Everyone and their grandmother is trying to get money based on the US tritium shortage . ’ |
| 13 | So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry . |
| 14 | ‘ Assuming Godolphin 's right , and this thing was attempting to get access to the Society , we have to ask why . ’ |
| 15 | A conscious decision is needed to get government out of things the private sector does better and to concentrate government on the basic things that only governments can do . |
| 16 | In blackmail the demand must be to make a gain or loss , whereas in robbery the threat is made to get property . |
| 17 | The problem is trying to get people to go into their offices and rock their handsets . |
| 18 | My mother and aunt used to have two small glasses apiece , the result being that poor dad was left to get supper . |
| 19 | erm one of the best programmes that I participated in was a programme where yes , money was spent to get matter for bucks as it 's called . |
| 20 | If polling day is 9 April , a certain amount of time is needed to get business through the House , and that is all that the guillotine is for . |
| 21 | ‘ My brother is trying to get hold of some penicillin . |
| 22 | ‘ This goat 's going to get help . |
| 23 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |