Example sentences of "[vb pp] get [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I can sympathize ; I have often struggled to get this difficult explanation across . |
2 | Yeah I 've got got got this little book in here . |
3 | When you 're arguing about the money to be spend on repairs , and for example the reason why we 've had to get strict budgetary control on the amount of money which is being spent on repairs , is because that money all comes out of tenants ' rents , and it 's basically a balance — if we want to increase the erm numbers and the standard of repairs that we offer as a landlord , then it has to be met by a further increase in rents , and we think we 've got the balance about right at the moment . |
4 | You 've still got to get good experienced people in their fifties and er whilst a lot of people have experience or a lot of experience er from their their previous working life it 's not always easy to make the jump into |
5 | We 've got to get this sorted right or we 're iced . ’ |
6 | But , and we 've got to get some excellent ones . |
7 | Wilko 's error here was to not spot the need earlier for a new full back to be bought to get some pre-season practice in with Strach/Rocky or Wallace . |
8 | If you can , plan to use a tripod ; with the camcorder firmly secured , you will then be able to zoom right in to fill the screen with individual baubles and still be placed to get good normal close-ups as well as wider shots of your performers absorbed in their task . |
9 | Six months ago I would have loved to get some new sounds for my new rack from your magazine . |
10 | ‘ Trelawney , ’ said the doctor , ‘ I believe you have managed to get two honest men on board — that man , and John Silver . ’ |
11 | Russia 's prime minister has managed to get two big coal mines back to work , but only after a promise that the Russian republic would get control over the mines . |
12 | Erm Louise did a similar thing for me , managed to get some one-off letters run off the system . |
13 | For the same article the journalist evidently failed to get any juicy quotes from his present wife and despite the misleading by-line By his two wives , the material rests on the words of a named ‘ neighbour in the tiny close of council houses ’ , who incidentally provides no information on his sex life but on his lack of neighbourliness : ‘ He was not very neighbourly — he would always try to avoid speaking … ’ |
14 | Asked whether , having failed to get any positive results despite good funding , he would continue to investigate the paranormal , Phillips said , ‘ that 's up in the air . |