Example sentences of "[vb infin] to get a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first impressions were an exciting mixture of scenes that seemed familiar but were so different in detail : I could n't wait to get a closer look at it all ! |
| 2 | How many of the hundreds of thousands of cells in each tiny brain region must one study to get a representative picture ? |
| 3 | More recently local trade unionists and many of the members of our organization in Easington decided that to commemorate the , the occasion , they would work to get a new trade union banner for the Easington Trade Union Council and that 's the example and that 's the reward of their particular work a magnificent tribute to those pit men that died eighty one years ago , er forty two years ago . |
| 4 | If wished the dealer will then work to get a good price for the car , the benefit of which is passed on . |
| 5 | However , this is no reason for despair since it is by examining and measuring the relationship between indicators that researchers can begin to get a better idea of what are good and what are poor indicators . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd like to get a listening device into Kemp 's home . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd like to get a little sleep tonight . ’ |
| 8 | Do , however , try to get a certain number transcribed . |
| 9 | So one of the one of the suggestions would be then that er you should try to get a similar sort of relationship in retirement . |
| 10 | It 's always been my philosophy that the first bait out is the one most likely to produce a run and I will try to get a drifting float out in almost any conditions ( except flat calms ) using balloons to assist the float 's passage through calm water and into the wind lanes . |
| 11 | I 'll er I 'll try to get a few things , make a few bob you know , |
| 12 | ‘ It seems to me , ’ said Daddy , ‘ that I shall have to get a new van that will go under the bridge . |
| 13 | get in the buggy and I 'll close this door , where have I put the lock ? , oh it 's not good we 're gon na have to get a new garage door , that one nearly kills me lifting that up , scraping it along the ground , you 're in are you ? , oh very good , two of you in , Richard , come and get in , just a minute where 's your , let me clip you in |
| 14 | I think I 'll have to get a new pan . |
| 15 | I think I 'll have to get a new curtain rail it 's that the plastic snapped been on the curtain ring |
| 16 | I 'll have to get a regular place in the group . |
| 17 | So you do n't get so much fat in it , yeah I 'll have to get a deep fat frying pan then , for all the fat |
| 18 | Fo cos we 'll have to get a beige carpet . |
| 19 | I think you 'd have to get a professional carpet |
| 20 | ‘ But then , for those things that are more filled out , to do them properly you 'd really have to get a few musicians out there . |
| 21 | B-R has told Margaret Wilkinson that if she wants to go by rail she 'll have to get a narrower wheelchair . |
| 22 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 23 | We would have to get a special cradle to do that and I have no real idea as to how long his nerve will hold . |
| 24 | The content of their syllabuses was largely , though indirectly , in the hands of the universities , through the local examination boards , and it was assumed that a good school , even if comprehensive , would manage to get a reasonable number of O and A level passes and send a proportion of its pupils on to higher education . |
| 25 | Preferably yes , it 's much easier to mark it , and I must say , research , research shows , that a clearly typed essay does tend to get a better mark . |
| 26 | But once you get down below the horizon you get to look round this area here where there 's some rope tangled round , some kind of padding , it does tend to get a little bit lost amongst all the pebbles . |
| 27 | They fear that bankers may now reckon to get a better return by selling off firms ' assets quickly than by keeping debtors alive . |
| 28 | Once the teething phase has passed you may want to get a new bed , rather than a cardboard box with its sides cut down . |
| 29 | Nothing but bills as usual — she did n't seem to get a great deal else these days . |
| 30 | James May , who heads an advisory service , says small businesses do seem to get a raw deal . |