Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to get a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I know they are all going to get a great deal out of this experience , I am deeply grateful for all the help that is being given them , they have had such a worrying time , I do not think one of them could have had a holiday this year without help , but I have faith to think it will be a good investment for the WEA .
2 They 've been to his little boy 's primary school , interviewed the teachers and headmistress and all the school friends and everything just trying to get a dirty story .
3 Gilbert Basset died in 1241 , and Philippa Basset somehow managed to get a quick divorce from Richard by autumn of the next year .
4 They said that in a political situation , if you had one side you could call it the thesis , say capitalism was the thesis and communism was the other side and that was the antithesis and that these two would one another and it was only when they came together and got their good points both of them adopted , that one was really going to get a satisfactory solution .
5 If Telecom really wanted to get a cost-effective solution to a 60,000 square foot head office requirement , it could simply have bought Montrose House on Adelaide Road two years earlier than it bought the Ballsbridge site .
6 If wished the dealer will then work to get a good price for the car , the benefit of which is passed on .
7 With nearly half the votes counted , it was clear the outgoing four-party coalition was going to be hard put to get a working majority in the Rome parliament .
8 But Wycombe almost snatched a dramatic , last-gasp equaliser when Simon Hutchinson 's cross flew across the face of the goal and Keith Scott fractionally failed to get a decisive touch .
9 Mr Heseltine , seen by many Tory faithful as Margaret Thatcher 's assassin , was never going to get a good reception in his first post-coup party speech .
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