Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | GRAHAM TAYLOR now has a second chance to get it Wright for England ! |
| 2 | All the paper goods mentioned are ‘ repped ’ in much the same way as books , but there is a major difference : the business is much more aggressive than bookselling , goods are generally firm sale only and the representative has a stronger reason to get you to buy ‘ units ’ . |
| 3 | It only costs a thousand pounds to get me |
| 4 | If you believe our young fans the secret of the film 's success — it broke box office records in the US by grossing £25 million in its first five days — is that it shows a mere kid getting the better of two witless adults . |
| 5 | A variation that we used to do , but which takes a little practice to get right , is to cut an elastic band , hold one end with your thumb or finger tip just below the implant , reach round the back with the other hand , stretch the elastic and , keeping it stretched , bring the end round and over the section under your thumb , grip it in the same way , pass round again and over the starting point . |
| 6 | Better start walking there now , takes a bleeding hour to get round there ! |
| 7 | but you know , it takes a long while to get over it |
| 8 | No but that takes a long while to get round . |
| 9 | That 's something we , we , that 's what we found and one of the things we have got is this youth bus actually operating in the town and it erm , it 's running three nights a week , we ca n't cover every bit of the town , but it goes to different area 's of the town , The Stow , and Old Harlow , I mean we 've actually got quite good relationship 's with , with , with the young people in Old Harlow , but erm , I mean we ca n't cover every night , I mean there is a problem , of erm , you know , you you get from a position where you recognise it , you , you , you need to start catering for a particular group and it takes a long time getting there . |
| 10 | Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want . |
| 12 | These days it takes a long time to get into the ‘ left-hand seat ’ or captain 's position in a major airline ; indeed , as time goes on more and more airline pilots have to recognise the possibility of reaching retirement before they achieve command . |
| 13 | It takes a long time to get used to it . ’ |
| 14 | Maybe it takes a long time to get to the phone . |
| 15 | Yes erm and er I think in the course of that we will have learned a lot of lessons the er that 's not a facetious comment , it 's true er the the first time you write er a software programme erm and any of you will will have experience of this , it takes a long time to get it right . |
| 16 | ‘ Suffolk folk will tell you it takes a long time to get to know them , and I soon found out it 's true . |
| 17 | Cos I took Nicky in to see her first because our Nicky 's one of those that erm takes a long time to get to know anybody ? |
| 18 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 19 | And it takes a crummy gumshoe to get me out of trouble . ’ |
| 20 | cos it was all fresh cos he was gon na get meat tomorrow and the following day , so I says to him I says well why did n't you use your cheque book ? , he says oh I never thought of that he says , cos it takes a few days to get it , he do n't know with a cheque book |
| 21 | You know , whe where does a working man get five hundred quid to go watch a bloody match ! |