Example sentences of "that get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
2 | And he had , kept getting bad , and he 'd had bad heads oh for years but he just thought that was , he was one of them people that got bad heads . |
3 | It 's not just the likes of The Satanic Verses that get rough treatment in some quarters of the literary establishment . |
4 | Oh there 's some on there if you wan na er Joyce was saying that get vast material |
5 | The kitchen is the only room on the ground floor that gets regular use these days ( except , of course , for the round-the-clock activity in the laundry room ) . |
6 | One of the conservation groups that I wholeheartedly support is the Environmental Investigation Agency ( ETA ) , a small industrious organisation that gets effective results . |
7 | One of the conservation groups that I wholeheartedly support is the Environmental Investigation Agency ( ETA ) , a small industrious organisation that gets effective results . |
8 | That 's why we 've produced a database with development tools that gets new systems up and running in no time . |
9 | Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton disgrace themselves with the kind of behaviour that gets other people put into homes . |
10 | One software category that gets good attention from shareware authors is speciality databases . |