Example sentences of "have [verb] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales . |
| 2 | Celia has managed to get fresh fish today and she 's cooked it in spices , just how you like it . ’ |
| 3 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 4 | He 'd gone to get those tickets . |
| 5 | She 'd tried to get another position in hotel work , but nothing suitable been available . |
| 6 | Do you think , you see you 've got to get another bloke and bloody great , he 'll do the same thing . |
| 7 | He really has had to struggle to get this project under way . |
| 8 | What do I have to do to get some attention , jump in after him ? ’ |
| 9 | Having failed to get voluntary agreements from all the residents , compulsory purchase orders on the properties were issued , with classic insensitivity , just before Christmas 1988 . |
| 10 | They had stopped to get some fruit for her , and the stall-holder had insisted that it was a gift , refusing Michael 's money as if it was the norm to give his produce away for free . |
| 11 | She had expected to get good advice from Lovat , not a proposal of marriage . |
| 12 | You 've to work to get that fortnight . |
| 13 | As she got to the bottom Michele appeared in the hall , and said briefly , ‘ There 's nothing to be achieved by staying here , so I 've decided to get straight back . |
| 14 | We 've got to get one set of charges or the other in motion , and I 'm your defence counsel . ’ |
| 15 | You 've got to erm , I 've got to get well Dad 's got the form I can get another one he can , erm the forms have got to be in soon so she knows how many are going to be sort of on the walls you know . |
| 16 | I ca n't do it , so that I 've got to get full marks for the exam to pass , without the other two bits on it , I ca n't do that |
| 17 | Now what essentially , what you 're doing , is that you 're writing an essay in very , very condensed form , so it 's just , I mean you still , still must have the same recipe in there when you write a short answer , right , but you just have to be very , very brief , so you know , para paragraph on definition , you know , paragraph of examples , right , erm , paragraph on some sort of explanation or erm , how it 's , how it 's measured erm , has it been a contentious issue erm , what are the problems with this er , with this concept erm , right , you 've got to get those sort of things in there , like you would in an essay , if you were asked to write an essay on reciprocal dumping you 'd , you 'd have all those things in there , right , but you only need to write a sentence , a sentence about them . |
| 18 | Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’ |
| 19 | You 've got to get more money |
| 20 | And we 've got to get some evidence . |
| 21 | I 've got to get some petrol I have to get at When did you ask me in Guildford B H S now ? |
| 22 | I 've got to get some sleep , ’ the impresario said , eating a spoonful of caviar and looking at a column about grosses in Variety . |
| 23 | The County Champs are only a month or so away , and you 're thinking you 've got to get some speed in the legs before the serious stuff gets underway . |
| 24 | Yeah , , so erm , I 've got to get some medicine for all of us in a minute , put the prescription in , but erm , you know , she 's had it really for a week like , even though she was treated for thrush |
| 25 | Well I 've got to get some jars from them because I 've got another lot of marmalade to make . |
| 26 | But you 've got to get some years in to get a really good pension , but I 've got thirteen and the maximum you can get is forty years but you get , then get two thirds of the salary you would have got , |
| 27 | ‘ Er … thanks for everything but I 've got to get these ladies some food . |
| 28 | I know Oh I 've got to get these tapes used up . |
| 29 | So somehow you , you , you , you 've got to get these ideas through th that you you 've recognized that it , it 's , it 's necessary to move on beyond the pol the moderate policies of the United Front but you ca n't be seen to be doing that . |
| 30 | So , they 've had to get men in , to board the windows up then if somebody else gets the house , they 've got to get these men to come and take the boards down again , then they glazier has to put the window in . |