Example sentences of "who [verb] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I compared myself to a dog who has got hold of a large piece of meat , and runs away with it to a corner , where he may devour it in peace , without any fear of others taking it from him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I would ask the woman who has got Farrah to search her heart and think about the anguish she is causing the mother . |
| 3 | Unfortunately with got to get some of those people who do n't want to come and it 's all about bums on seats it 's the old old saying bums on seats we 've got to get an answer how we do n't get to these here at the moment in the audience whether they are people who want to get bums on seats or how they know how to do it perhaps they should have a meeting like this every month I 've never seen so many of . |
| 4 | They watched the horses follow the tractor round the ever narrowing stand of corn in the centre of the field , and the tinkers who came to get work stood by with dogs and shot the rabbits that came surging out . |
| 5 | Job seekers who lie to get work |
| 6 | Right , Moxon , Metcalfe , Carrick , good old Arnie of course … er , that stocky lad who does n't move his feet properly … um , let me see now : um , oh yes , that fellow who keeps getting backache , and then that off-breaker who ca n't turn it , and that so-called seamer with the funny hairstyle who just ca n't bowl at all … |
| 7 | It was he who managed to get H. A. R. ( ‘ Kim ’ ) Philby his first job in intelligence , in 1940 . |
| 8 | She was always the brightest , and she was always the one who kept getting reports that she could do better . |
| 9 | Elena 's greed was resented by the privileged few who could both afford the fees and knew who to approach to get permission . |
| 10 | may be right in saying that in Greece there is ‘ very little employment in the private sector ’ , but he fails to mention that only under the new law people who fail to get tenure at universities are now eligible for employment in the public sector . |
| 11 | It could be seen in some cases as , maybe escapism , we do n't give enough thought to the wife and kids who 've got dad er , er , in in court . |
| 12 | people who 've got money she 's all she 'll look after them but she 's not looking after them blokes . |
| 13 | Okay , erm I mean you say about even people who 've got members of their family over there , I mean I know that if it was me , I would want to know what was going on . |
| 14 | There are people out there who 've got problems that are bigger than the average household can deal with and erm I think , therefore , we 're looking for more institutionalized forms of help and folks like this particular character — I almost said his name — almost need to be made to accept that kind of help . |
| 15 | I 'm sure it 's the same for many of the other groups who 've got problems . |
| 16 | Here 's the bank — see the queue along the street from the cash point — people who 've got pots of money in that bank and all they 've got to do is press a few buttons and it 'll spew out a wad of crisp notes into their delicately manicured hand . |
| 17 | That 's where people who 've got crap cars go and try and get bits to stick them together . |
| 18 | Oh it should be covered definitely , I mean I watch I mean you 've got all the extended programmes , I mean last night I watched the nine o'clock news until ten o'clock and then the one o'clock news at dinner time until two and , and erm various things , I mean I think it 's quite enough myself , I mean I 'm speaking as an ex-soldier at seventy years old , and I think well I do n't think really that people necessarily want to hear it all , even the people who 've got people over there . |
| 19 | ‘ They ca n't risk people who 've got cracks in the armour , ’ says Tony Barnes , manager of the banking division at Robert Walter Associates . |
| 20 | ‘ You find yourself only mixing with people who 've got babies . |
| 21 | That was my original they had a competition to look out for people who 've got ideas about this new idea , it was a ridiculous idea to do a competition cos people did n't know what they were entering for , half the parishes were n't notified about it , |
| 22 | He told her things she had not known about him — good things , acts of generosity — it came out that it was he who had got Simon on to my pictures , the Douanier and the Gris ; he had practically given them to him . |
| 23 | He conquered the man who had got Owen Jones to London and to RADA and to the Old Vic . |
| 24 | You see it was er whilst it was er er a democratically , legally elected government , you see there were such people as er er as Mussolini , from Italy , fascist Italy , and er er er Hitlerite Germany you see , who had got units , naval units , air units etcetera , blockaded . |
| 25 | He had his widowed mother living with him and two sisters who had to get husbands ; both Mr James and Constanza say that it would have been considered an almost monstrous act of selfishness if the prince had insisted on marrying one of the Montecativi or Roccarosa girls for their beaux yeux . |
| 26 | The only government department which assists women and children is the Family Relations Department of the Advocate General of the Poor ( Procuraduria General de los Pobres , PGP ) , which provides legal aid for women who wish to get child maintenance through the courts from the father . |
| 27 | Sources who have gotten wind of the project claim it is important to Microsoft 's efforts to push NT into the enterprise . |
| 28 | If anyone was to take on the role of the state police it would be the Metropolitan Police Force who have got experts and if say something happened in Manchester like an I R A bombers left some bombs in Manchester , experts from the Metropolitan Police would go to Manchester to help out , they 're what 's known as the Anti-Terrorist Squad |
| 29 | There we were as representatives of this city , people who are in contact with erm people who have got problems , we were |
| 30 | They see other people who have got money so they 're taking it … |