Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [noun pl] 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | So far , filetab Support Services has tried four times to get injunctions against Ace Microsystems to prevent the company from selling Lex-11 . |
| 8 | ‘ He has sent two orderlies to get another ten or so men from the morgue . |
| 9 | We 'll carry on what we 're doing without having to write pop songs to get to Number One . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Here the young hired man , John , eighteen , having walked thirty miles to get employment , has been landed with a poor place and low wages . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She then had to visit two hairdressers to get independent reports — and both said that whoever had permed her hair was incompetent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | We 've got twelve months to get things right . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've tried five organizations to get it to stop , including the Red Cross and the Salvation Army . |
| 23 | But he had taken three years to get there . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They said they had to pay heavy bribes to get passports to leave Turkey . |
| 26 | So I had to have eleven appointments to get my two sales a week . |
| 27 | We have seen mass employers getting awards for schemes for employing disabled people , when they operate in premises which are completely inaccessible . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ The Conservatives have had 13 years to get law and order right . |
| 30 | 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 . |