Example sentences of "to get a drink " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to get a drink , the workers were standing around in the street listening to pacifist orators . |
| 2 | Billy was fairly sure that Harriet had not gone to the river simply to get a drink and that a stronger instinct was governing her behaviour . |
| 3 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 4 | I went down to the washroom to get a drink of water , and to have a shave ; I did n't want to turn up at Boulogne Police Station looking scruffy . |
| 5 | and er , they were coming up and went across to get a drink of lemonade and it was a bloody hot day , really , you know a midsummer day and erm , we went across to this kind of cafe place that 's opposite the station and I saw two men with rubber boots on |
| 6 | ‘ We 'll be able to get a drink in a moment . |
| 7 | One thing , you need to go to the bathroom or , or to get a drink , says wake up and go and do it , the other thing , th th the desire to go on sleeping , says you know , well do n't wake now , I want to go on sleeping . |
| 8 | I stopped going there a season ago too difficult to get a drink . |
| 9 | Asik was glad to get a drink ; it did not matter to him if the water was dirty or clean , he was thirsty and gulped down as much as he could , washed his feet and then filled up the water jug . |
| 10 | I 'm going to get a drink okay . |