Example sentences of "get a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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31 And the other bit says , ‘ You 've got a life to lead ! ’
32 Cos I 've got a life to lead and my life do n't start till about ten .
33 You know , when you 've got a part to do , you usually have an instinct for the kind of guitar sound that 's going to work .
34 One of you 's got grievance and you want something done , there is something that you want done and the other person , is the person you want to do it or the person who 's got a part to play .
35 All of them have got a part to play , because we believe there are erm it 's a national problem , but the solutions are in each community different and we need the community to look at a situation and see what can be done on the ground , and I can give many examples of the sort of thing one has in mind .
36 During the 1960 campaign , the Kennedy entourage dodged the opposition 's charges about the disease , which was diagnosed two decades earlier by a London doctor who commented , ‘ He has n't got a year to live . ’
37 Last season , I had one which I never got a chance to use : - ( .
38 Alternatively , we may say that the plates are so close to each other ( as it would be in a practical diode ) that the electron beam has n't got a chance to spread .
39 It will be hardly different from B0 , the value in the material ; in the short space available the flux lines have not got a chance to spread .
40 We were also convinced that unless we could get the politicians and so called ‘ medical experts ’ to start exercising their minds , then the people in communities like ours would continue to die before their time and our children would be damaged before they even got a chance to live .
41 No , but if you go in the middle you 've got a chance to wake up .
42 Although some of the things that you were taught you maybe never got a chance to do them in the bakery .
43 I 've got a chance to go in with a women 's group up Manchester way .
44 Oh well you 've still got a chance to go and get her ready duck .
45 Where 's the you 've got a chance to go of course .
46 The Duchess says she 's very pleased with the work and delighted they 've got a chance to put their skills on show .
47 There 's nothing worse than learning that an act has been signed somewhere else and you never even got a chance to hear them .
48 There 's nothing worse than learning that an act has been signed somewhere else and you never even got a chance to hear them
49 If you pick it up , you 've got a chance to speak to them .
50 Yeah but he ca n't gi , so that means you ca n't go up cos you have n't got a chance to buy one .
51 So you might have entered a wonderful poem to that competition and Philip Larkin never got a chance to look at it .
52 The copy of Sartre Adient I had not got a chance to read took up a third of the brief case .
53 because , because there 's a roofrack there and some people do , so that if the bus does turn over at least you 've got a chance to jump out .
54 From six , so if you give us data every week for the next six months , and as I say , in six months ' time , we 'll then be working on actuals , but until that time , we 'll work on company averages for you , so that you 've got a plan to work to .
55 no I know it 's a bit early erm , but it 's not too early to start thinking that you are a world citizen , you 're not just Jayne and you 've got a contribution to make , because if you 've got this
56 You could spend weeks pedalling up and over the North York Moors , but if you 've only got a weekend to spare , then the Rosedale area is without doubt the place to go .
57 ‘ Well , I must be running along — I 've got a nest to rebuild .
58 Think about training though , if somebody 's got a question to ask what will about sort of something very early on and they do n't get the opportunity to answer you what might happen
59 But a man who makes his living playing black music suddenly sporting the flag waved on every Nazi march AND toying with skin imagery ( and like or not , lads , the crop and boots HAVE been adopted by Nazis in the USA and Europe ) AND writing ambiguous lyrics about an issue which brooks no ambiguity AND making idiotic remarks about blacks and black music in interviews AND hankering ( in a curiously middle aged manner à la Gary Numan ) after a nice , homogenous ‘ England ’ that never actually existed AND refusing to defend or explain himself — ALL that means , at the very least , that he 's got a case to answer , surely ?
60 But first — you 've got a choice to make .
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