Example sentences of "get [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they tore in a wild , bumpy , breakneck race across the rough heath to Scawby Marsh and got ropes round the poor terrified pony just in time to keep him above the shifting surface before the marsh engulfed him . |
| 2 | Long hours of standing over benches by the lock makers got part of the Black Country known as " Humpshire " . |
| 3 | I got help from the social services for this : they brought sheets and pillowcases from the hospital . |
| 4 | She got help from the special unit , took out a court order to keep him away from her . |
| 5 | So I got hold of the right side . |
| 6 | Once in my hotel room , I got hold of the Yellow Pages and dialled for a woman . |
| 7 | Perhaps your father got hold of the wrong key . ’ |
| 8 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 9 | Or at least got hold of the basic as I have said , the best way to do this , is to sit down with a piece of pencil and paper and work it out yourself . |
| 10 | Pondoes well you got Pondoes one side and you got Freston on the other and we were dredging up . |
| 11 | yeah no its twenty five to ten though , still got Poirot on the other side |
| 12 | Erm We have n't I do n't think got minutes of the previous , I do n't think we were keeping minutes of these meetings . |
| 13 | If you 've got signs on the main line saying traffic point , traffic censors ahead , you 're gon na have people saying oh sod that I 'll get off at the next junction instead |
| 14 | We 've got pictures from the super eight film of the assassination if you want . |
| 15 | We 've got pictures from the super eight film of the assassination if you would like it . |
| 16 | De Gaulle had got wind of the Allied invasion plan in August 1942 , but he was probably unaware of its full political implications . |
| 17 | Right so if you put the number in front , it 's as though you 've got brackets around the whole lot . |
| 18 | I 've got potatoes in the main meal , like chicken and potatoes or something . |
| 19 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |
| 20 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman has got hold of the wrong end of the stick . |
| 22 | In the meantime , some suspects were interrogated , but the Croatian side never got hold of the whole file before the war broke out in the summer of 1991 . |
| 23 | He would probably have got shop by the local farmers if he 'd been caught but er he used to go on these local fields and er and er sn snare rabbits you see , or get a rabbit . |
| 24 | this week its the third round of the coca cola cup … our only survivors are Swindon … they 've got Oldham from the Premier League at the County Ground tomorrow night … kick-off is at seven forty five … |
| 25 | They have n't got confidence in the old board of directors , and that includes me , and Dad — ’ |
| 26 | For death , we 've got Passages of The Different Nights , No Survivor and The Visitor . |
| 27 | that 's what I 'm saying , if you go then the following day we 'll bring Philip and then by which time you most probably got news about the old codger here |
| 28 | So the rock-scavengers know that they have got bits of the Martian surface without having to go there . |
| 29 | Lots , lots of people claim , in fact ever such a lot of people claim that they 've got communication with the dead , for instance that , as you know I 've got a caravan ai n't I at Rudyard Lake ? |
| 30 | but erm , we 've got friends in the Methodist church and they told us things that er , you know , absolutely |