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

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1 W w w er what alternative has the rich peasant got ?
2 ‘ See , whoever has the biggest gun gets to kick the crap out of everybody else .
3 Have we seen the best of Rosa Mota , or has the sprightly Portuguese got something up her sleeve for Barcelona , the last major championships she plans to run ?
4 Has the little hatchback got what it takes to succeed in one of Europe 's toughest markets ?
5 GRAHAM TAYLOR now has a second chance to get it Wright for England !
6 All the paper goods mentioned are ‘ repped ’ in much the same way as books , but there is a major difference : the business is much more aggressive than bookselling , goods are generally firm sale only and the representative has a stronger reason to get you to buy ‘ units ’ .
7 The church planting team often has an obvious opportunity to get involved with secular organisations in that it will often meet in a secular building .
8 That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months .
9 ‘ He 's had a hard time getting into the world , ’ Elizabeth replied .
10 Some stations stood in the heart of thriving capital cities and teemed with life day and night ; others in desolate fastnesses , where as Dickens remarked of the remote New England depots , ‘ the wild impossibility of anybody having the smallest reason to get out is only equalled by the apparently desperate hopelessness of there being anybody to get in ’ .
11 When I asked Alison what qualities you need to be a marketing controller she said , ‘ you need to be able to establish immediate empathy with the people you are talking to as you may only have a short time to get the feedback you need .
12 But with the size that the baby is already , it 's likely Greene would have a hard time getting her beyond thirty-eight weeks .
13 Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) .
14 Well — Frank will have a tough time to get into Norway 's world cup squad .
15 And — not having a big ego to get in the way — viewing the world and its inhabitants with a penetrating intelligence .
16 Mr Antonis is having a hard time getting his message of openness across to all the citizens of Antwerp .
17 You may have an automatic right to get these things free or to get maximum help with the costs .
18 Had the Norton-logoed products got off the ground , sales could have reached millions .
19 I had the Mexican boy get his father ; they 'd take care of the coach and horses .
20 Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily .
21 ‘ We were sticking our necks out further and further but once we got to the South Col we had the same chance to get to the top as if we had 20 Sherpas helping and a brick-built house up there , ’ said Harry .
22 The feeling of being manoeuvred came back with a rush and she had the urgent desire to get out of this stuffy office fast .
23 ‘ I 've a good mind to get its number ! ’
24 When the morning came , he had a terrible job getting the Austin started with the handle .
25 ‘ I 'm not sure if it was ‘ The Reign of Terror ’ story about the French Revolution , or one of the other ones , but we had a terrible time getting Bill to pronounce the word brazier , meaning a rack for burning coals .
26 She had a burning need to get this ridiculous misunderstanding sorted out as quickly as possible .
27 He had a strong desire to get to know her better , and yet here she was talking of marriage !
28 Grayling found that he had a hard time getting people to take him seriously .
29 ‘ I had a hard time getting through Ulysses , ’ I responded as lightly as I could .
30 Once in one of these classes one year I had a Jewish student got up and got very upset during such a class as this and stomped out and then slammed the door er which I was rather sorry about because erm I think he was being a little bit erm too sensitive because the person who was giving the paper said anything anyway erm , but warrant that , but he was just offended of the idea that anybody could suggest that Moses was n't Jewish , and of course
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