Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.

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31 The Angel of Death looks in and he says : ‘ You 've got five minutes to get your clean nightdress on , and arrange your effects , and put the cat out , and tear up that compromising letter , and then I 'll be back for you . ’
32 then you 've got more room to get round If you sit glued to the pavement it 's a hell of a job to get round
33 I think we 've got enough difficulty getting out a master job file .
34 Er people done it thinking that Och well , I 've got three month to get this sorted out , you know , and then unfortunately , by the time the three months was up , they had n't got it and
35 its not , you ca n't , the thing is you ca n't defend them without how you die , you ca n't train people how to avo to die , you can only train them how to avoid it , so it does n't really matter if you get fired or not , but they show you the drills and you have to do them to the best of your ability the blank rounds are only there to the conditions , now this is why they 've got these laser got laser sights all over the body , helmet and torso and the actual weapons got a laser on top and you get , if you get near one of these things you go dead and your out , and you can actually simulate
36 Whizz round the sights and then if you 've got any sense get back inside the Palast . ’
37 If you 've got any doubts get in touch with your local fire safety officer and he will come along and er waylay any problems that you may have and he will indeed er give you the best of advice that 's available .
38 I 'll have to take my ba my building society book of and get a bit of money out , cos I 'm short have to get , have , I 've got some money to get just seventeen and like I 've got two pounds extra right , and , I 'm gon na need some money for the weekend .
39 I only wish I had time to stay and talk , but I 've got some paperwork to get through right now . ’
40 which reminds me , yeah , the last block I got I 'll have to take it back , it was the wrong colour , we 've got some silver got some , got
41 so I got , I got to know how to use them by then then then erm while I 've got older dad got another piece of ground what he 's given up now
42 I mean , I 've needed four years to get to this point so she could have all the time in the world as far as I was concerned .
43 Our main survey ( Appendix 1 , text preceding Table 24 ) showed that very few people had had any difficulty getting the type of credit they had decided on .
44 Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized .
45 You 've had ample time to get your feet under the table by now and one or two things have come up which I 'd like you to pursue .
46 When we got to it , we had to turn sharp right to get into the kitchen .
47 ‘ I 've tried five organizations to get it to stop , including the Red Cross and the Salvation Army .
48 Whenever you 've seen Rob in my office you 've taken good care to get him out of my clutches very smartly , on the flimsiest of pretexts .
49 But he had taken three years to get there .
50 It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce .
51 Only 14 per cent of registration officers said they had taken positive action to get information to the half million people in homes or hostels .
52 Naturally , she 'd heard of this legendary Tech-Green , and was disappointed someone of such intelligence and vision had allowed maudlin dross to get in the way of his career .
53 They said they had to pay heavy bribes to get passports to leave Turkey .
54 So I had to have eleven appointments to get my two sales a week .
55 We have seen mass employers getting awards for schemes for employing disabled people , when they operate in premises which are completely inaccessible .
56 These groups have made strenuous efforts to get it right — to get the sound they always wanted , with none of the cheapskate shoddiness that British soul/jazz groups often settle for : to counterbalance that lush , affluent sound with concerned lyrics , nods to their roots and tons of soul-blaring compassion .
57 ‘ The Conservatives have had 13 years to get law and order right .
58 Carter , who did not appear on stage himself , later said : ‘ The idiots who run pool in this country have had 20 years to get it right and they 've messed up .
59 Those who have a cold or flu are doubting whether they have had enough time to get over the illness , even if it did strike last November .
60 ‘ She 's had all night to get her breath back , ’ he complained .
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