Example sentences of "[pers pn] to get [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's daft for you to get a stiff neck on the sofa when there 's room in my bed . ’
2 IF A MISTAKE IS MADE , AND YOU PAY A WRONG AMOUNT , WE WILL GIVE YOUR LOCAL BANK AN INDEMNITY WHICH WILL ENABLE YOU TO GET AN IMMEDIATE REFUND .
3 Because what I 'd like to do is give people a view as to how they can best formulate their letters to you to get the right kind of reply from you .
4 Can you mind roughly h how long it would have taken you to get the rough survey .
5 He held his foster-brother away from him to get a good look at him .
6 so the most-talked-about terrace-player gets another half-page over here — if Frank play well in the US that might make it easier for him to get a new club .
7 ‘ When I walked into the studio Blixa had his body miked up and they were punching him to get a bass drum beat .
8 he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm .
9 We 'll need him to get the neural network back on line . ’
10 Crowe had told her to get a new face .
11 ‘ And we want her to get a nice lot of money for it so that she can afford to go and visit her nephew up North , ’ added Mary .
12 Then she asks me to get a small bottle of pills from her drawer .
13 ‘ I find it helps me to get a good night 's sleep . ’
14 He wanted me to get a good job and live a quiet , comfortable life .
15 Other law chiefs came to see us and said they would help me to get a healthy country .
16 The Parsons ' slimline dining table was too low for me to get a proper purchase to relieve the cramp .
17 This was all important to enable me to get the correct shape of the legs and the lengths of the rails .
18 The tree was 360mm in diameter and to enable me to get the correct clearance around the tree and the seat width I drew a rough development on the patio with chalk .
19 She goes that 's probably why she was telling me to get the flat ones cos she wo n't get them on .
20 ‘ She told me to get the small details right from the start — things like hair , clothes , likes and dislikes — because it 's the small details that define an individual . ’
21 The risk that the others would use them to get a political voice was a risk that had to be taken .
22 It is far better , for the sake of peace and quiet , to ‘ give them their head ’ within reason , without allowing them to get a total stranglehold on your time .
23 Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . )
24 PC-ometer We take the three ratings — CPU , DISK and VIDEO and combine them to get an overall performance mark .
25 got cod roe and fish cakes for supper and bought four salmon heads ( OH how I hate those glazed eyes looking at me when first one steams them to get the good flesh off ) for soup .
26 Mm , I think it 's been cut and , they have to stretch it to get the actual bits of corn out of the middle of the seed , do n't want the husk .
27 It might help us to get the full picture if we could talk to your wife .
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