Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |
| 2 | He did The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover and had a laugh trying to get Peter Greenaway to loosen up . |
| 3 | There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole . |
| 4 | Gary Bennett and Richard Ord are dropped in a reshuffle designed to get goals . |
| 5 | Answer : ‘ At least a dustbin 's got rubbish in it ’ ) , teachers try to ‘ encourage ’ you ( ‘ You 'll just have to stay in at break time to do it all again . ’ ) |
| 6 | The girl , of Pitsea , Essex , has spent 14 hours a day with two specially trained policewomen and a counsellor to try to get information on the rapist . |
| 7 | Major Burrows suffered a great deal with asthma and had taken leave from the corps for a year to try to get control of the symptoms which were becoming chronic . |
| 8 | I remember there was a big ; story in one of the newspapers because a guy had got hold of a Telecaster — they made a big feature of it ! |
| 9 | How would a historian manage to get access , or even begin to find out where they were kept ? |