Example sentences of "and [verb] get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , and they 're always going to say yes are n't they , unless they 're a reasonable human being and has got a bit of money they can use . |
| 2 | The main aim at the moment for Landreth and his two cohorts , bass-player David Ransom and drummer Ken Blevins , is to make the most of their first major-label release and to try to get a support slot with a suitable big name . |
| 3 | Kahn says UI can no longer be a ‘ beacon ’ and needs to get a lot more aggressive . |
| 4 | We keep saying that to Steve if he ca n't figure out something me and Marie look up and say get a fitter ! |
| 5 | Ana asked softly , and Maggie took a deep breath and tried to get a smile into her voice . |
| 6 | I think just to answer that the , the pitch , because obviously I looked into this , and tried to get a reduction , |
| 7 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 8 | Beno was fined five pounds and told to get a job more suitable to his talents . |
| 9 | Well tried to go across the road and get get a bit of shopping . |
| 10 | And this is why takes to get all this down and get get a location better than the Carlton for the , I mean , alright , we are n't gon na be able to do the three or four hundred , but then we |
| 11 | Her interviews with a cross-section of women and bound to get a lot of press . |
| 12 | This is not simply to enable the vet to work in comfort , or even to reduce his rage when the first words are ‘ I will just go and try to get a rope on her ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll nip out and try to get a street guide . ’ |
| 14 | So I tried my best and managed to get a council house for her to move into . |
| 15 | Emecheta insisted that although she was a girl she wanted an education and managed to get a scholarship to the Methodist Girls ' High School . |
| 16 | I was in New York and managed to get a Rickenbacker , a white one , absolutely gorgeous , in that ‘ 77 or ‘ 78 era . |
| 17 | I decided to put all these experiences to positive use and managed to get a job with a charitable trust in London which works with women ex-prisoners . |
| 18 | Nobody in this band holds their role above the old minstrels , or the court fools who used to offer diversion and try to get a smile . |
| 19 | Having heard of the firm of Boulton & Watt and their new engine , he decided to travel to Birmingham and try to get a job with the firm at their Soho Manufactory . |
| 20 | She riles you and enjoys getting a rise out of you . |
| 21 | Now in those days you never got an album deal from a record company unless you had a hit single , but I made up my mind that the sort of stuff he had would make a very good album , so I went to Decca with that view in mind , trying to get an album deal , and did get a deal for him . |
| 22 | Timothy Spain , defending , said Dakers had gone to Australia with his wife and two sons and had got a job there . |
| 23 | But still she could not use it until she spent an accumulation of 2 ½ years filling out Ridiculous Redundant Forms from the Grand Canyon 's Department of Ridiculous Redundant Forms Redundancy Department , spent $4,967 in stamps mailing the forms in and had to get a skin graph on her tongue from licking stamps . |
| 24 | They rehearsed at New Cross Stadium and had to get a suntan to look fit . |
| 25 | If someone had never read Lewis before , and wished to get a taste of him , there would be no better book with which to start . |
| 26 | He rocked to and fro , feeling the basket creak and trying to get a sense of its condition . |
| 27 | While the politicians were pre-occupied with the death penalty and corporal punishment in the late 1950s and early 1960s , the civil servants were paddling in the mainstream , adjusting to the implications of the increased volume of crime and trying to get a grip on what was to become a perennial problem for the next quarter century , the growth in the number of persons appearing before the courts charged with criminal offences . |
| 28 | She was trailing behind the other two and trying to get a grip on her nerves . |
| 29 | erm from where people are actually living and trying to get a nights sleep . |
| 30 | Now , I was never a good getter-up but I do have the excuse that I often retire very late , particularly if I have a visitor in the afternoon and need to get a bit of washing or something done at night when it is possible to get on with it without interruptions . |