Example sentences of "thing [pers pn] [vb mod] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among other things you might get his view of the bookshop and of his father-in-law as a business man . ’ |
| 2 | But there were a lot of things you could get |
| 3 | You said about the buyer 's guide that it 's , that you were a representative of Friends Provident , you 're an employee and it 's very very important to stress that because people like Abbey National were appointed representatives but we are employees and that 's one of the things , that 's one of the good things you can get out of the buyer 's guide . |
| 4 | Things they would get arrested for . ’ |
| 5 | If you do n't know the words if you do n't know what the Spanish or lemonade or you ca n't spell the darn thing you 'll get a low mark right . |
| 6 | It must be the nearest thing you could get to Lord Ismay … it was just the tip how to run it , how to manage it from the Government point of view . |
| 7 | It is also quite possible to grow several exotic-looking annuals from direct ground sowings ; the trumpet-like salpiglossis , so ornately marked , the schizanthus usually seen as an early summer pot plant and zinnias , the closest thing you can get to those expensive gerberas . |
| 8 | I sent him to the north of Scotland on the nearest thing you can get to a wild goose chase — to try to see our country 's most elusive bird , the capercaillie . ’ |
| 9 | At the moment , Rabbit 's British-made GPT phone is the only digital portable phone widely available in the UK , and the telepoint network it uses is the nearest thing you can get to digital mobile telephony . |
| 10 | Which is one of the reasons , by the way , why another thing you will get murdered for in the er workshops is taking two hammers and hitting the heads against each other , because they 're hardened and y they may well shatter quite explosively if you do that . |
| 11 | If you were in my ward , the first thing you 'd get would be a jolly good haircut . |
| 12 | The first thing you must get out of your head is that you 're the predestined black sheep of the family , that you and they are necessarily opposed . ’ |
| 13 | The ‘ nearest thing she could get ’ to a Lord Ismay was Sir Michael Palliser , who had just retired from the headship of the Diplomatic Service . |
| 14 | … now with the GCSE things are very much more flexible , and the one thing we can get rid of immediately is the written paper , which is of course one of the bits of objective assessment in the examination , and which an awful lot of teachers clung onto . |
| 15 | It was the nearest thing they could get to having a castratus ; he was already a political eunuch , him and Teixeira both . |
| 16 | Tell me , Tom Hanks , what 's the worst thing they could get up to between the pair of ‘ em ? ’ |