Example sentences of "they [modal v] get [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they will give the State the part of their collections considered by experts to be an important part of Russia 's national heritage , they may get permission to export the remainder . |
| 2 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 3 | with , they must get hold of a new windscreen before going home Oh look Just Good Friends . |
| 4 | ‘ They should get credit for the informal aspects of what they did , and their staff work was superb ’ , says , a senior associate with the congressional Office of Technology Assessment . |
| 5 | I think they should get planning consent and go ahead and develop Straiton . |
| 6 | Those wavering voters who were made nervous by Kinnock 's Boyo Valley exuberance are comforted by the dignified but determined way in which Mr Smith , the Edinburgh attorney par excellence , reassures them that , as it were , not only will they get the house , they 'll get custody of the children as well . |
| 7 | And they 'll get tea at in the stack yard or wherever they were . |
| 8 | They 'll get bust and erm |
| 9 | They might get work in , like construction work and the making of roads and that kind of thing … but how long would that last for and we 'd be left with what , like you do n't know what you would be left with in the end , ’ said Mary Catherine , who concluded ‘ I 'm not one to stop progress by any manner of means but I do n't think gold mining is progress . |
| 10 | They reneged — prompting the Serbs to do so too — when Bill Clinton hinted they might get help from America . |
| 11 | He had heard that I knew Robert W. Service and felt it would be a ‘ good idea ’ if they could get Service to fly up and formally open the new building . |
| 12 | He had to pull himself up with help from other divers who pulled his umbilical , and anything else they could get hold of . |
| 13 | Well , er the reason was erm technique and science and they 'd , they all the firms or who was in business had to make locks their own way , you know what I mean and use the best facilities they could get hold of , but science and progress came into being and they cou they made what you could call locks erm repetition . |
| 14 | Any cake they could get hold of he advised them to eat . |
| 15 | The only way it would matter is that somebody breathes the information to , if they could get hold of a card , and get into an office , they could actually use the information to make a payment . |
| 16 | Some felt constrained by lack of alternative child care — as many as two-fifths said they would return to work sooner if they could get child care . |
| 17 | ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu . |
| 18 | ‘ We thought the jackets were loaned and that GT Sports were doing it because they could get publicity . |
| 19 | They could get money by robbing a fruit machine , but it is easier to beat up an old woman and grab her purse . |
| 20 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 21 | Well they 'd get firm , you know |
| 22 | That 's the economy of the motor trade , apparently Henry Ford in America had an upset and er tried to beat the banks and er had loans and he was frightened that they would get control of his business and the we were told that at Dagenham . |
| 23 | Banks made provisions of up to around 70% against total third-world loans , and assumed they would get tax relief as if they had actually lost money . |
| 24 | This makes sense when taken together with IBM Europe 's statement that it has excess manufacturing capacity : rather than close the plants straight away , it has thrown them to the market — they will get business from IBM but only as long as they can provide products at the going market rate . |
| 25 | You know , and I feel , I do feel very angry , I mean th th the family that she 's referring to who ca n't , who have difficulty hav getting transport for Sunday morning , they 're not parishioners , but are actually in the parish , and they know perfectly well that if they ask they will get transport , and indeed in the past they have asked , and they have got transport . |
| 26 | They will get attention in connection with the second hypothesis of the theory of determinism of this book . |
| 27 | Since one essential quality of a good toastmaster is a loud voice , ( which often goes with an imposing , extrovert personality ) they will get attention faster than you can ( an alternative way to get the attention of the audience is to ask the band , if you have one , to do a drum roll for you ) . |
| 28 | Because that 's the quickest way they can get stuff to you . |
| 29 | Provided they can get hold of the Brasso . |
| 30 | We say too that the Czechs drink beer , the Slovaks drink wine and the Moravians whatever they can get hold of . ’ |