Example sentences of "get [pron] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now have you got plenty of the wee tablets or are you finished ? |
| 9 | I 've got you in the common room I think anyway . |
| 10 | And from then on you 're done — they 've got you by the short hairs . |
| 11 | when you when you knew that he 'd got you by the short and curlies ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And then you 've got him on the right hand side look making cheese , this is brother again , that 's not brother . |
| 16 | When you 've got it to the final fold there you 've got your ordinary |
| 17 | Because you have n't got it in the correct mode it 's not working algebraic . |
| 18 | jelly boy put the tape in then Aaron and I 'll press , there I 'll fast forward it , no you 've got it , you 've got it , no you have n't got it round the right way |
| 19 | They got one off the Welsh side in October in a 1-1 draw . |
| 20 | Mr. Ennals got one from the Prime Minister 's son during his visit here on behalf of the British Government . |
| 21 | If Alison Watt , poor little sausage , had measured the Queen Mum from ear to ear , and got everything in the right place in the same picture , people would probably tell her she was a genius . |
| 22 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 23 | You purchase players or get them from the free-transfer market . |
| 24 | Get them in the right frame of mind — keep atmosphere relaxed and friendly |
| 25 | er we have er a ski machine coming from Gloucester which is going to let people have a go and er get them in the right position , and when they do it right all the bells go off , so it 's a fun day for people to come and have a go on things . |
| 26 | Get them round the wrong way , of course , and you spend ten thousand pounds worth of preparation on a ten p problem . |
| 27 | ‘ Just get everyone into the old sheds . ’ |
| 28 | Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph . |
| 29 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 30 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |