Example sentences of "they [verb] get the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah they 're accepted and the the language developing is developing more quickly than that so they want to get the stuff into dictionaries |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Perhaps they expect to get the club services free of charge . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | they tried to get the score moving as best they could … but Derbyshire had different ideas … |
| 6 | We arrived at their home in Bruton , Somerset , only to find that they 'd got the date wrong and were n't prepared for us . |
| 7 | The the Jolly George er was a ship that was loaded with arms er to send to Russia , to for our the use of our troops in Russia , and the sailors refused to sail it , and there was quite a to do about this because they 'd got the steam up and it was ready to go but they never went . |
| 8 | But there was no stopping Swindon once they 'd got the second . |
| 9 | Instead they 'd got the Pope and an article about a highly paid journalist , Simon Winchester , eating a dog for dinner . |
| 10 | Well no , that was another thing more or less as I was coming out the door they 'd got the news thing on and this was Australia the new prime minister , I do n't know his name , he 's running down I did n't hear it properly but I heard the gist of it , erm and it |
| 11 | An ’ then , within a few years , they 'd got the babby an' she 'd given up teaching . |
| 12 | Well , they 'd got the skeleton that wanted a big brass lock but er oh you know , lovely and er it was more trouble getting the thing through the pan to get er the case than putting the insides in it , if you follow what I mean . |
| 13 | ‘ How the fuck are they going to get the stuff up the Thames without the river police tumbling them ? ’ |
| 14 | Many of the musicians were unused to working with dancers and once when the band was out of tempo , the Girls started singing as they danced to get the music synchronized . |
| 15 | Like my father I love books and solitude and I flee from publicity , the brutality of the media , interviews where they try to get the interviewee to say things he does n't really think , as though to catch him out . |
| 16 | They said they went to get the food at Waitrose , and I heaved , and I said , I do n't want to see |
| 17 | It is perhaps fortunate from our point of view that we can pin ourselves , in so far as we are talking about an inset , to the actual deposit copy of Ryedale District Council , when they did get the matter right , but no body apart from them , sir , did so . |
| 18 | On the other hand , when they do get the opportunity to strike they are lethal . |
| 19 | Overall , even if they do get the paper they want , it does not follow that they get the political coverage they want . |
| 20 | They 're living independent parallel lives , as it were , and you need to take into account housing erm and I imagine that this is a if you take the elderly , for example , one major concern is the number of old people , particularly widowed women who live alone — increasingly ca n't cope , they go into care , private nursing homes if they 've got the wherewithal , geriatric hospitals . |
| 21 | It 's probably where they 've got the dartboard and that in there . |
| 22 | They 've got the ability to score from 70 metres out , as they showed against Scotland , so why not go for it ? |
| 23 | Whether or the , they 've got the ability to cook what you 've put on the menu . |
| 24 | So they 've learnt that they ca n't implement land reform unless they 've got the support of the popular masses and it 's got to come from them cos ultimately they , they 're pursuing land reform in order to get the peasant support and if that 's not what they want there 's no point in just erm imposing it on them . |
| 25 | And they 've got the support of Gloucester MP and barrister Douglas French . |
| 26 | I hope they 've got the sense to bring air powered cutters . |
| 27 | You 'll say you should n't afford it here and neither should I , but in dentistry they 've got the edge on us and you ca n't begrudge teeth . |
| 28 | They 've got the engine . |
| 29 | You work forty years of your life you 're made redundant all that time you paid insurance , tax and after twelve months they 've got the gall to take money you paid all your life off your unemployment and throw you on income . |
| 30 | Well they 've got the depot at Rochdale which services up to Blackpool and this was out on a limb . |