Example sentences of "to get [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the poor could not expect to get something for nothing , so the rich did not expect to get nothing for something . |
| 2 | We used to get them for one penny the pack in the navy . |
| 3 | Mick was short of them and I was deliberating whether to get them for him . |
| 4 | ‘ We had a bit of a struggle to get them for the wedding , but you can pull various strings to hold things back . ’ |
| 5 | People used to get them for their children and |
| 6 | There is nothing more annoying to a journalist who is working on a story than to be told that the PRO will ring back with the relevant numbers and then not to get them for another two or three days . |
| 7 | In other words , the fact that we get most of our true beliefs from other people , whom we believe are better placed than we are to get them for themselves , is just a special case of the division of labour : namely , of epistemic labour , the labour of acquiring knowledge . |
| 8 | He gained his school colours for rugger and was unlucky not to get them for the Field Game and the Wall Game — another game confined to Eton . |
| 9 | ‘ If he wanted the stars in the sky , ’ one parent told me , ‘ you would try to get them for him . ’ |
| 10 | They tried to get them for Felling , but lost out to Yugoslavia . |
| 11 | The ones that a friend of mine who was once in the TA has been promising to get me for three years now . |
| 12 | Yeah , the chemist may not have those in stock but they 'll be able to get you for them within twenty four hours , you 're |
| 13 | I 've been trying to get you for ages but your line 's been engaged . ’ |
| 14 | Oh find me your list cos I wan na know what to get you for your birthday . |
| 15 | A trip to the local agent found they had not got one in stock , but I managed to get one for a P6 car . |
| 16 | we get one Mark we 're going to get one for the right reasons indeed . |
| 17 | " I'Il ring down and tell them to get one for you . " |
| 18 | Many fans believed all they had to do was hand over the ticket stub for the Latvia game to get one for the visit of Jack Charlton 's men — that plainly is not the case . |
| 19 | I 'm trying to get one for this model here , we have a lot of these erm similar chassis in them . |
| 20 | Well no , we wanted to get one for Charlotte , but erm , I do n't think they 'll use them |
| 21 | He had been trying to get something for Dorothy 's headaches . |
| 22 | Trying to get something for nothing . |
| 23 | Trying to get something for nothing . |
| 24 | But then you had to get something for your £225 fare for the flight from Britain to Durban . |
| 25 | Just as the poor could not expect to get something for nothing , so the rich did not expect to get nothing for something . |
| 26 | If they are trying to use me to get something for the museum , then I shall think of something else . |
| 27 | ‘ Do remind me to get something for Mother before then — a potted plant or something growing . |
| 28 | Also I 've got to get something for the boys ' dinner first … |
| 29 | yeah I 've got a lot of relations , I 've got twenty , twenty seven er grandchildren , that includes the great grandchildren , twenty seven which I have er to get something for all at Christmas it 's a pantomime I 've got stuff here and everywhere sorting out for them , cos my little grandson tonight is coming round to wrap them up for me so I got to mind I have n't , leave his present in the way otherwise he 'll know what he 's got yeah he 's got , I got a tape for him , he wanted a tape called Madness so I 've got him a tape for it so I 've had to put that out the way so he does n't wrap that up , no he comes and does them up for me tonight , and a friend Ian will help him as well , so you know it 's , it 's great really |
| 30 | she 's been trying to get something for the mother of the bride . |