Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to get a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regions will decide whether the strategy Mr Yeltsin has chosen to get a new constitution adopted will succeed or fail . |
| 2 | He could have failed to get a personal interview with the one man with whom he had some sort of contact . |
| 3 | but er , they 've got to get a new mini bus apparently , there in two years , which we new and er because like every thing else , it 's funded by the school not the authorities |
| 4 | ‘ We had a good run in losing only one of our previous eight games and had hoped to get a good result at Oldham . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Folly , somehow we 've managed to get a crossed line here . |
| 6 | Eight Kent families have failed to get a High Court order forcing two health authorities to hold an independent review of complaints about consultant paediatrician Heather Richardson . |
| 7 | We have managed to get a fair way into this chapter on food and diet before mentioning that subject dear to a slimmer 's heart , the calorific value of food . |