Example sentences of "had [verb] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had these two things , we had to try to get women involved so I had women fronting For What It 's Worth ( Penny Junor , Sally Hawkins ) . |
| 2 | She had expected to get satisfaction from refusing Faith 's jewellery , because it seemed an action on principle , and because there was always a surreptitious pleasure to be gained from snubbing Isabel . |
| 3 | He had decided to get Leila to put the girl under trance before they attempted any experimentation . |
| 4 | But Garvey 's fingers went white with the amount of strength he had to apply to get Lucie on his knees . |
| 5 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 6 | ‘ In the morning when I came in , I had to help get clients out of bed , dressed and washed . |
| 7 | In the last few days they have behaved impeccably and had tried to get FIDE to give the rights to the new organisation . ’ |
| 8 | Leonard had tried to get Elizabeth , his London girlfriend , to take the bold step of departure to Greece , but she had refused . |
| 9 | She had heard already from the girls how Luke had tried to get Maggie to go to England to learn nursing against Moran 's fierce opposition , how their older brother and Moran had fought , and when Maggie yielded to Moran and stayed , Luke had gone on his own without telling his father . |
| 10 | The firm 's owner had tried to get funding from the IFI but could n't even get the application form . |
| 11 | As one of them related to Yakovlev , he had tried to get straw from his brother in a nearby village when he ran out of lighting-fuel , but officials had stopped him , since he was stealing ‘ from the poor … there 's sucilizm ( sic ) for you ’ , Ivanovka Soviet on the other hand was managed by no obvious clique , and the very few rich peasants had no general influence in the village , which contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones . |
| 12 | There , cramped between a store house ( 'D' on the diagram ) and a woodpile ( 'C' ) , the party had to move to get space so that they could reorganise . |
| 13 | John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own . |
| 14 | By the time the week rolled around when she and Cara would start their trip , Fabia , who had managed to get hold of and read one of Venedelin Gajdusek 's translated works , was feeling as much in awe of the man as her sister . |
| 15 | Broomhead Smith had managed to get Aggie Temple a tabby tomcat which was the best mouser in the Borough , so he told her . |
| 16 | In fact it had been only with difficulty that the seller had managed to get rent from Mr. Fleck who was still in arrears . |
| 17 | By August , we had managed to get approval from all concerned to help evacuate these men and their families to safety in their own clan areas . |