Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] get [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Was that nice of me to get you that wool ?
2 And nine times out of ten people in that situation , when they 're actually creating their article or their programme or anything else , will take that material , use their own style , wrap it up , and as it were throw it out , and if you 're pro-active in that sense , you stand a very very much better chance of them getting it right .
3 To babies had this dried milk and some of them got it cheap and I suppose there was no work and then they were poor were n't they .
4 question eight , in Britain we play the game draughts , in America the same game is called checkers er , number nine , one or two of you got it right , most of you caught out with M G sports cars , the M G actually stands for Morris Garages
5 We done everything what you 're supposed to do , Roger and he said it could take days and days for you to get it right !
6 I plead with him to get it right this time for his own sake .
7 They still have plenty of time in which to get it right . ’
8 I think my style basically came from copying other people 's stuff , but it was never that important to me to get it perfect .
9 Still , I expect Grandstand and Question Time are even now fighting it out over who gets me first .
10 I says , You get them coupled up and I can rely on you to get them right you see .
11 The whole team relying on her to get it right , always ready to blame her when she failed .
12 Gazing straight ahead , only half-aware of a world outside the claustrophobic comfort of the car , of Massingham 's hands stroking the wheel , the almost soundless changing of the gears , the pattern of traffic lights , he deliberately let his mind slip free of the present and of all the conjecture about what lay ahead , and remembered , by an exercise of mental recall , as if something important depended on his getting it right , every moment of that last meeting with the dead man .
13 As we now contemplate our strategy for the years ahead , let us never forget that they are the people who sit huddled outside , waiting for us to get it right . ’
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