Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a brief second to get accustomed to the gloom , I see a man seated in a high-backed Captain Kirk-style chair . |
| 2 | Canon , the Japanese consumer electronics giant , has entered the ferociously competitive audio market as part of a 10-year strategy to get into the world 's living rooms as well as its offices . |
| 3 | Given that we have so little information about rape , does the increased press reporting , given its restricted nature , hinder the chance of a raped woman getting a fair ‘ trial ’ ? |
| 4 | ‘ It might be worth the price of a new car to get away from you ! ’ she seethed , letting off the handbrake . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , here we are in March 1993 and London booksellers are faced with this quite untenable situation of a fellow bookseller getting supplies some months before we do . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It took me a hell of a long time to get everyone to go , ’ Faye 's husband said explosively as he strode into the room . |
| 7 | Early on the authorities responsible for displacing the people in the Uranus area realized that if the inhabitants of a particular street got warning of the intention to do away with their homes they might try to organize protests or even resistance . |
| 8 | Coetzee , describing the leagues as part of a Conservative effort to get to grips with mass politics and the ‘ new religion ’ of socialism , explains the timing of their appearance on the grounds that prior to the 1890s ‘ the Conservatives had no need of recourse to such pressure groups because they already possessed access to institutions adequate for the defence of their interests within the existing sociopolitical framework ’ . |
| 9 | Dean was too much of a cultural snob to get the message , but Balcon sought to emulate the success of these pictures in his more serious , dramatic movies . |
| 10 | I refused to let the nurse wield her scissors on them and put myself through gyrations of a one-legged contortionist to get them off whole . |
| 11 | The picture could be executed by a company called Scanachrome in which I already had some interest and it seemed like a good opportunity to get involved with the process . |
| 12 | It may have looked like a good ruse to get 300 acres lovingly ploughed , but Shillingford Farm happily played host to the British Championships . |
| 13 | The deep rumbling of the explosions dying down to a hissing of falling dust , everything grew quiet , and the twenty or so survivors collapsed against a low wall to get their breath back . |
| 14 | What is surprising is that a new colony has settled down to breed so quickly — it normally takes a year or even longer for a newly-formed pair to get down to breeding . |
| 15 | However , by asking members of the elite group questions such as ‘ How many members of the group have you worked with on committees ? ’ , and ‘ How well do you know each member of the group ? ’ and ‘ Whose support would be necessary for a major project to get substantial community backing ? ’ , some elite studies of community power have revealed remarkable consensuses about the existence of elite groups , and about their power , and have supported such findings with demonstrations of the interaction of members of the supposed elite groups . |
| 16 | Coun Ord , a member of Sedgefield District Council , has called for a concerted campaign to get the proportional representation across . |
| 17 | It 's difficult for a Black girl to get a credit card . |
| 18 | Teaming up with the Unanimous Decision Crew he talks us through a languid groove based story of how ‘ hard it is for a black man to get a job ’ , ‘ If you 're black , what 's your destination ? ’ he enquires . |
| 19 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 20 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 21 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 22 | A ramp that made it possible for a disabled woman to get in and out of her home has been demolished by the local council . |
| 23 | One route is to take a hostile view of takeovers involving the absorption of a domestic firm by a foreign buyer , since takeover is often the best method for a potential competitor to get an initial share in the domestic market . |
| 24 | Arguably it 's easier now for a British composer to get an opera on to the stage than at any time since 1945 . |
| 25 | First of all , there is the very real ethical problem : is it morally permissible for a social scientist to get information through false pretences ? |
| 26 | If you are a small family , look for models with the sort of controls that allow you rinse-and-hold cycles — a short cycle which rinses dishes for a short time to get rid of dried-on food and any smells so that they can then wait till you have a full load to put through . |
| 27 | Our usual joke is that for a Hungarian novelist to get published and widely read , he has first to be sent to prison . |
| 28 | A third route could be to permit vertical relationships and restraints between domestic producers , or domestic producers and distributors , which made it difficult either for a foreign firm to set up production and gain essential supplies , or for a foreign firm to get access to existing distribution networks . |
| 29 | He sent letters to the Home Secretary , Prime Minister and TV authorities during a year-long campaign to get to court and ‘ expose corruption ’ . |
| 30 | The promo photo of her dressed as a 15th-century temptress got a suitably artistic response : |