Example sentences of "get [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sold three and one of the reasons why and I think we got tremendous opportunity to develop an enormous part by just going in and speaking to people to explain to and they can relate to write lots and lots of and you can get a good grip we wo n't do it overnight , it is something you have got to develop . |
| 2 | In the public sector in the United Kingdom , for example , even top managers have not got complete freedom to reward according to performance . |
| 3 | You know often they do n't stay through the whole meeting but if they 've got specific points to bring up you know th you know it 's flexible really you know sort of depending on what 's going on really . |
| 4 | I 've got English work to do . |
| 5 | I 've got Latin homework to do . " |
| 6 | Children have sometimes got personal things to say , like , ‘ We 've got owls in our barn ’ or ‘ My uncle 's got 'em on his farm ’ or ‘ What are they doing in my friend 's shed ? ’ |
| 7 | And so , when you come to the bible and you read the account of Jesus here on the earth , turning the water into wine , of Jesus stilling the storm , when you into the old testament and you read accounts there of the children of Israel , of the me , of the tremendous miracles that were performed by Jehovah , God for them well of course , there 's a natural explanation to it , because you ca n't do these things , there are natural laws that stop you doing them you can not take a glass of water , even if you 're God , you can not take it and make it into a glass of wine instantly , it 's got natural processes to go through . |
| 8 | go boom and you 've got little arrows to show you how |
| 9 | they 'd got little bits to do , but there was |
| 10 | A third factor concerns , if you like , the demographic situation , if you 've got children erm if you 've got elderly relatives to look after , that will obviously determine whether you 're enabled to travel and perhaps where to . |
| 11 | Whether we like it or not , we , we 've got elderly people to look after , a lot of them , and whether we like it or not , there has been a change in attitude of the government . |
| 12 | And I 'm about to give him a beer , because he 's got good reason to celebrate , this night . ’ |
| 13 | He 's got good reason to thank the Midland bank . |
| 14 | I mean where we could dummy into the war here so the war starts in thirty nine so unless you 've got good reason to believe that consumption was n't affected until nineteen forty , we use a dummy for the whole war period once you 've edited , once you 've edited the variable you press the end key that saves the edit . |
| 15 | ‘ If you ca n't do that then the JMU 's got good reason to query it . ’ |
| 16 | I have n't seen all that much of him awake , and God knows he 's got good cause to worry . |
| 17 | And I think there was a local radio article er a couple of days ago that said that car alarms do not work any more house alarms do providing you 've got good neighbours to respond to it . |
| 18 | It 's absolutely fascinating and also , let's face it , we 've got good news to talk about from Oxford United as well tonight . |
| 19 | and then I hear him back , he says that he 's got great faith to believe the truth , know the truth , mhm , mm |
| 20 | It was I think because the powder was er pushed by the , the er company in Third World hospitals , and when the mothers went out they had n't got safe water to mix it with . |
| 21 | And there 's so much voluntary work to be done if people have got spare time to go and help but , I do n't know whether it 's the sign of the times that people only want to do jobs for monetary gain . |
| 22 | control contacted me yesterday to say that erm due to loss of system last week , and the fact that the Easter weekend erm is looming up on us , it means that they 've , they 've got insufficient time to run all the jobs that they needed to erm in the space that they , they would like to run them in . |
| 23 | I 've got vital work to do , absolutely vital work to do , and I know it if they do n't . |
| 24 | ‘ It would give a motive , ’ said Owen , ‘ and once you 've got that , you 've got other lines to work on . ’ |
| 25 | He 'd got other things to do if they did n't want him on his terms . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I 've seen all I want to here , I 've got other things to do . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But I 've got other things to do , love , everything does n't stop , just because your friends come round . |
| 28 | oh darling can I go to the toilet , I 've got , I 've got other things to do |
| 29 | They 've got other things to think about . ’ |
| 30 | Some animals are flush with water , but have got other things to worry about . |