Example sentences of "get [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 2 | So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium ! |
| 3 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
| 4 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 5 | The photographic section on the camp was not very busy , having no aerial photos of enemy territory to decipher any more , and one of the photographic LACs got himself onto a good thing by setting himself up taking portraits , mostly of Waafs but a few airmen too . |
| 6 | Dining in one restaurant with Hugh Paddick , he got himself into a furious row with a woman doctor at the next table , challenging her views on life . |
| 7 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 8 | I think if you got maybe a twenty five year old who came to your school for a week and got you in a small group and talked about it , it would be great on a one to one basis . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid this dog affair has got everyone in a nasty mood , ’ Uncle Alfred explained . |
| 10 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 11 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
| 12 | Now you can see Body Shop 's here , I 've got them in a nice box now . |
| 13 | I can quote you three particular instances where farmers have rung in with good information only to be told at the other end of the phone what the bloody hell have you rung us for and they 've got nothing within the local police whatsoever . |
| 14 | ‘ I think I 'm demanding and chauvinistic , but I 've finally got someone with a good enough sense of humour to be able to cope with that very well , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've got ourselves into a great position , even over our closest rivals in fourth and fifth spot , ’ says Gunn , who is in his seventh season with Norwich . |
| 16 | I mean he 's got plenty of every single bit of papers that they 're given all the time . |
| 17 | Now have you got plenty of the wee tablets or are you finished ? |
| 18 | I could sense the Colonel had got himself into a capricious and dangerous mood . |
| 19 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 20 | ‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry . |
| 21 | Surely by that time many of you must have realised that had got you into a right pickle over L M S and that you some of you I believe felt that but none of you spoke out about it . |
| 22 | I 've got you in the common room I think anyway . |
| 23 | And from then on you 're done — they 've got you by the short hairs . |
| 24 | when you when you knew that he 'd got you by the short and curlies ? |
| 25 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 26 | But I 've got one in the do-it-yourself shop here you see , and I thought I might as well put one in Val 's two shops . |
| 27 | you see I 've got one in the front room and I had this one put in so then I say if I am in the kitchen , I say , I lift up the receiver , hello , and hear who it is and then I , I say hang on while I get round the chair and then you see I sit on the arm of this chair and talk because er it 's difficult to stand too long |
| 28 | Oh the story of this particular one is that it er er they tried to make out that the erm that the the the the shark has actually got something against the human beings on this boat and it keeps chasing them . |
| 29 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 30 | And then you 've got him on the right hand side look making cheese , this is brother again , that 's not brother . |