Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I helped a young girl get an old lady onto the er train |
| 2 | We stopped and built a makeshift shelter to get away , as best we could , from snow that filtered its way through every opening to produce melt water that trickled coldly over us . |
| 3 | A former army captain , Jane Turpin , used a fake CV to get a top secretarial job at Europarks where she photocopied documents and sent regular reports about the company and its personnel to Layton via Hewitt . |
| 4 | Nobody in the SDLP criticised Currie for his espousal of Thatcherism or for the fact that he stood against and defeated a Labour candidate to get into the Dail . |
| 5 | Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ? |
| 6 | It 's my job to keep a check on the stock and it seemed a good chance to get something done … ’ |
| 7 | I pulled in there as it seemed a good place to get Armstrong off the road and it was only then I saw that it was in fact an unmade road curving away round the back of the hill . |
| 8 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 9 | It became a desperate struggle to get them on ; the longer it took the more difficult it became as my fingers became numb and useless . |
| 10 | Rain made a mental note to get Holly to follow up the story next day , she could visualize it leading the column on Friday unless anything better turned up . |
| 11 | Penny made a mental note to get cold food from the delicatessen when she invited Glenda back . |
| 12 | I suppose that because she had n't really known me from an early age , she made a tremendous effort to get to know me later . |
| 13 | I mean they were pretty shambly when I got to them and I made a supreme effort to get everything going the way I wanted it to go . |
| 14 | In September 1977 the second wave of terrorism by the Baader-Meinhof gang reached its grisly climax : the businessman Hans-Martin Schleyer was kidnapped and murdered ; Palestinian and German terrorists made a vain bid to get Baader and others released from prison , by hijacking a Lufthansa airliner ; and when German police forcibly put an end to the hijack Baader and his colleagues committed suicide . |
| 15 | Knox made a desperate bid to get in front at the last corner but Martin held his line and emerged the winner . |
| 16 | But , realising that it was n't very good manners to sit there bemoaning her lot , she made a huge attempt to get over her disappointment , and trotted out lightly , ‘ Oh well , perhaps it 's fortunate that I find Mariánské Láznë quite an enchanting place . ’ |
| 17 | Having said the BMC made a bad move getting involved , the fact remains that access is now a major issue for mountain users ; not due to the traditional problems of a landowner barring access — there is much less of that these days . |
| 18 | While Cato was still alive the Roman governing class made a determined effort to get to know the Celts better . |
| 19 | I personally led a vigorous campaign to get Niblet removed at the first opportunity . |
| 20 | The couple fought a long battle to get welfare benefits but they were unsucessful until Anita went to the new carers ' centre in Banbury . |
| 21 | We got a whole teacher got a whole lot of letters for some piece all about collecting cans for getting trees and it was them letters . |
| 22 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 23 | After all , Jones spent a long time getting the wording right , and you wo n't be able to improve on it . |
| 24 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 25 | On the morning of the day when Therese Aschmann was due to arrive in Hochhauser , Willi spent a long time getting ready before he went to meet her at the station . |
| 26 | In 1989 she raised a 250-name petition to get toilets built in the car park where drivers pay £2.50 to park for the night . |
| 27 | As long ago as May 1989 , at the International Radio Consultative Committee meeting in Dusseldorf , Germany , European manufacturers blocked a Japanese move to get their 1125-line MUSE system accepted as a world standard . |
| 28 | But it needed a full-time crammer to get you there and you 're still below average . |
| 29 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 30 | I was in the country without a husband and needed a special permit to get in ! |