Example sentences of "they [verb] get [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them seem to get a power trip from their ritualistic behaviour . |
| 2 | ‘ They tend to get a lot of children cutting through their grounds . |
| 3 | ‘ I hear they 've got a problem to worry at there , but details I do n't know . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I hear they 've got a camera in the stumps ’ |
| 5 | Oh yes , well you see they 've got the names |
| 6 | At least they want to get a cross-section . |
| 7 | Yeah they 're accepted and the the language developing is developing more quickly than that so they want to get the stuff into dictionaries |
| 8 | The Inland Revenue does not need to prosecute because they have powers to exert penalties similar to a fine , and basically they want to get the money back . |
| 9 | and then we carried straight on again but I wanted to get it done today , I did n't want to go back again weekend they want to get the carpets down inside and they 've got all the carpets there in the house , I mean it 's twenty eight foot long , twelve foot wide so erm we got the carpets in down and we 've got it in the house and it 's too big |
| 10 | seven o'clock , well I thought I 'd come a bit earlier forget that they want a tidy living room , they want to get the toys out of the way , they want to present themselves in the best possible light so they 'd be more forgiving if you 're late than if you 're too early to be on time . |
| 11 | Perhaps they expect to get the club services free of charge . |
| 12 | Just as their main interest was in the ways of life of people as seen by the people themselves , so they tried to get a sense of the past into their work by using life-histories . |
| 13 | Local authorities had their fingers burnt before when they tried to get the software up and running and then found that the Government were changing the rules . |
| 14 | they tried to get the score moving as best they could … but Derbyshire had different ideas … |
| 15 | Last thing was they 'd er they 'd got a fancy |
| 16 | ‘ They 'd got a tail off a fox fur and pinned it on the back of Victor 's coat just before he started the dance . |
| 17 | Oh it 's summat about erm yeah it is you know erm where you vote for them union things I meant to ask you if they 'd got a stamp |
| 18 | Their stories were n't ones of passive pain , but tales of active resistance — having somewhere to run to , they 'd got a grip of their own lives . |
| 19 | They were n't very big , but er they 'd got a wardrobe , a be a single bed and er dressing table and drawers . |
| 20 | And they said he never said much to them , well he perhaps did n't , he would n't do because he was like that you see , but pra before interviewing him on television , er of course the War came and India was given freedom , and er there used to be you know the Sweet people who used to have a big factory on Road , was a very famous sweet in them days , I do n't think they are now , but was a very good sweet firm , and they 'd got a daughter cos she was in the , during the War the Anglo-Soviet Friendship er she was one of the course they 'd got hundreds but she was one . |
| 21 | I was going to ask you if they 'd got a youth team ? |
| 22 | So the letting officer from one of them said they 'd got a house for me . |
| 23 | You told me they 'd got a set of keys . |
| 24 | and er I mean and these were three young girls , they only just started to work and yet they 'd got a car and as soon as they finished they they were going on this picnic |
| 25 | Oh you would have liked the dog what er was a woman outside , they was eating their things outside cos they 'd got a dog |
| 26 | instead of saying , telling the er insurance people that they 'd give them the bills and they could pay them as they came in , he said they 'd got a lump sum . |
| 27 | They 'd got a postcard once , view of New York , a few months later . |
| 28 | Next door , they 'd got a lot of kids and they used to play marbles , and they used to bounce on these concrete floors . |
| 29 | Cooker was all electric , th they 'd got no gas mains up into the into the old village in those days you see . |
| 30 | I should have been kitted out a week earlier but they 'd got no shoes to fit me . |