Example sentences of "we [vb past] get the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we failed to get the balance right , teachers would lack the necessary motivation to implement our programmes of study . |
| 2 | We failed to get the day 1 samples from eight patients and the day 8 samples from one patient . |
| 3 | But one night we tried to get the whole entire floor out on the landing . |
| 4 | He was the son of Edward the Third , one of our more warlike kings , but he died the year before his father did , and that 's how we came to get the boy-king Richard the Second in thirteen seventy-seven . ’ |
| 5 | And er within a few months we 'd got the thing going till they were blowing out , and we were making it hand over fist you see ? |
| 6 | I miss your mother , I really do — we had our differences but we 'd got the measure of each other , as you might say . |
| 7 | Certainly er by then perhaps I forgot to mention as we went through the front door my weapon was already out of the holster and by the time we 'd got the bedroom door my weapon would already have been under er my eye level , hence literally aiming the weapon and from there the gun was out , my arm was out , whether I still had hold of P C I I ca n't recall . |
| 8 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
| 9 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |
| 10 | ‘ We made it difficult for ourselves , but we needed to get the early breakthrough , ’ he added . |
| 11 | ‘ We needed to get the BP and Unipart brands on to the petrol stations so they would be highly visible . |
| 12 | And then we got to the stage where we needed to get the wardrobes out . |
| 13 | After a struggle with the wind we managed to get the meadow looking neat and tidy , tables were loaded on to a dumper and the villagers made for home with their booty . |
| 14 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 15 | It must have been an hour and a half at least before we managed to get the thing out of the water . |
| 16 | We managed to get the kitchen , sitting-room , dining-room and our bedroom in order before his return . |
| 17 | We managed to get the cocoa changed to tea , and abandoned the hard-labour cells . |
| 18 | ‘ We managed to get the battery thing behind the hedge , ’ he said , ‘ and the can 's nearly full . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ It was shattering but well worth while , we managed to get the message across and people were very generous . |
| 20 | It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er |
| 21 | Brownie helper Barbara once more came to the rescue and during the next week brought her daughter 's cassette tape-recorder to my home where , in spite of my nerves and her dim knowledge of recording , we managed to get the music for a small sequence on tape . |
| 22 | So we managed to get the lorry out and I got on the ‘ phone to Bristol University . |
| 23 | But I mean you know what I 'm like in a car I just sit there and then then your father turned in and there was all these , where we went to get the carpet , you know ? |
| 24 | With Mrs Thatcher we did get the occasional handbagging . |
| 25 | ‘ The service to the frontmen was n't good enough and when we did get the ball to them , we immediately gave it away , ’ he said . |
| 26 | On the phone to all her cronies at this moment , I do n't doubt , and this is the year we hoped to get the swimming pool appeal off the ground . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Our intention to ballot in this way was already known , but we hoped to get the assurances we wanted from British Rail . |
| 28 | ‘ She was really bubbly and we knew that we had got the right girl . |
| 29 | Certain things were asserted beyond peradventure : namely , that we had to get the public-sector borrowing-requirement down , because if it went up or stayed up it would keep interest rates up . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , ’ he began hesitantly , ‘ it all began when Una took sick and we had to get the doctor … ’ |