Example sentences of "have [be] get [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 2 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 3 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 4 | Ever since he 'd given her that power of attorney she 'd been getting above herself . |
| 5 | This way , everyone — including the other mums — has a chance to forget her bad behaviour , and you 'll break the habit of aggression that your child might have been getting into early . |
| 6 | He got Svidrigailov 's nightmare past the censor , and there is a good deal more to that horror than I have quoted ; and ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ could have been got past him too . |
| 7 | This is a person who sees nothing to recommend the Duomo at Siena ( ‘ it seems to have been got by outlining ’ ) , nor Sienese painting in general : ‘ evidence of love ; but not of art … |
| 8 | The last few days he had been getting on her nerves . |
| 9 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |
| 10 | Before the last Test it seemed that Gooch would return home , annoyed at an article written about his South African connections by Lester Bird , the Deputy Prime Minister of Antigua , and tired of the hostile receptions he had been getting from press and public . |
| 11 | Her only plan had been to get to her cousin and retrieve the jade . |
| 12 | Mr Ram hinted that Mr Kasturi had been got at by government officials . |
| 13 | You 'll have heard from your boss that the two-yearold you were riding had been got at . ’ |
| 14 | Harriet , being no fool , read between the lines and knew that Sidney had been got at by his stronger-minded and cynical other half . |
| 15 | I 've got five so far and I 've been getting into good positions . ’ |
| 16 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 17 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 18 | know b what I 've been getting on Friday and Saturday night was an awfully big |
| 19 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 20 | Not long before the end of term now , pooh looking forward to er , going home to get some real food inside you I dare say , as opposed to the gruel you 've been getting in hall . |
| 21 | No she 's going somewhere we went to Donny other day all money we 've been getting like , when I first , she , when I first , before we got that giro for me |
| 22 | they 've been got at |
| 23 | ‘ It will be a relief to have it out in the open and it will stop all the questions I have been getting about my future , ’ said the 21year-old Nottingham Forest player . |
| 24 | More than a hundred and fifty schoolgirls have been getting to grips with the subtle skills of scrummaging and line outs . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 27 | And they are losing their tradition of the food that they have been getting from Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | All of chemistry now basically is becoming explicable in terms of quantum theory … we are getting , have been getting in the past 20 years , into the age where a sizeable amount of basic chemistry can now be properly understood from basic quantum theory . |
| 29 | Some of them have been got at by the plant-breeders and bear no resemblance to the species or variety originally discovered ; some remain the same , being already sufficiently beautiful or useful . |
| 30 | Bet bloody Matt 's been getting at him probably knew the camera had caught him looking shit-scared . |