Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Cypress has made great efforts to get the HyperSparc to the launch platform so quickly ( when compared to Viking , see front page ) — the design process spanned just 18 months — Cypress has one major problem : it has no customers signed-up for the thing yet . |
| 2 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 3 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 4 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 5 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |
| 6 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 7 | ‘ For too long the rigid enforcement of the amateur code has allowed many companies to get miles of free advertising out of higher profile players . |
| 8 | So far , filetab Support Services has tried four times to get injunctions against Ace Microsystems to prevent the company from selling Lex-11 . |
| 9 | ‘ He has sent two orderlies to get another ten or so men from the morgue . |
| 10 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 11 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 12 | Of course , unemployment brings great difficulties in its train and no one regrets that more than I. That is why in recent months we have put in place the widest range of measures that we have ever had to help unemployed people get back to work . |
| 13 | We 'll carry on what we 're doing without having to write pop songs to get to Number One . ’ |
| 14 | Better use of machinery and tractor and erm farmers are at risk of I know that manufacturers who could have to progress these capital to get better returns . |
| 15 | Certainly we 're concerned that someone may be going around educational establishments and we 're appealing for anyone else who may have seen this man to get in touch with us . |
| 16 | I should have made more effort to get close to her , Claudia thought miserably ; all her efforts had been rebuffed , but , deny it or not , the bond was there and she hesitated to turn her sensitive twin over to Roman Wyatt 's not so tender mercy . |
| 17 | As it is , there 's little to fault about FastLynx — it offers in one package what you might otherwise have to buy two packages to get , and is easy to use . |
| 18 | While Mid-Glamorgan county council 's £2 million investment in the Cardiff-Aberdare Valley line has traffic exceeding expectations , it is having to buy three trains to get the Maesteg line re-opened , bringing its input to £3 million . |
| 19 | So there would b take away this anomaly of old people having to use three buses to get from one end of the town to the other , which means , in actual fact , that each bus they went on to , they paid this ten pence , which if there 's three , if they do not turn it twice a week , twice a day , that 's sixty pence . |
| 20 | Here the young hired man , John , eighteen , having walked thirty miles to get employment , has been landed with a poor place and low wages . |
| 21 | The thing is that I could n't cancel the draft — it cost £6.50 to get it , and would have cost another £12.00 to get it annulled . |
| 22 | Manager Graham freely admits he could never have imagined this threesome getting just one goal between them from six games . |
| 23 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 24 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 25 | They went to Zliten and spent the night in a guestroom ; in the morning the Zliten boy asked to borrow the vehicle for a few moments , drove it away , smashed it and abandoned both the vehicle and his Zuwayi friend who had to find other means to get back to Benghazi . |
| 26 | She then had to visit two hairdressers to get independent reports — and both said that whoever had permed her hair was incompetent . |
| 27 | He could hear her hairdryer , almost as hard on his nerves as a dentist 's drill ; it had ruined three attempts to get the message down already , but he did n't want to ask her to lay off for a while in case the uneasy peace was threatened yet again . |
| 28 | They say , ‘ Daddy , look what I 've got , ’ and you try not to let what you 've seen that day get to you . |
| 29 | I just do n't know what it 's gon na be like , er , so I think if we , well at ten o'clock , if we left at ten , we 've got twelve hours to get down there |
| 30 | We 've got twelve months to get things right . |