Example sentences of "get [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No Er the girls sort of say things like perhaps ask her , Do you have any We could get on a bit more so they do n't include themselves in what they 're going to do . |
| 2 | Well think , if you concentrated on that a bit more instead of just doing it any where in the air you might get on a bit quicker . |
| 3 | I thought she 'd get rather a lot of cheap publicity . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Having committed one offence and been given a criminal recordfor innocent hacking , they may feel that they might as well get in a bit deeper . ’ |
| 5 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 6 | I imagine that if you were a member you can , you can get in a lot easier and a lot cheaper . |
| 7 | Of the five candidates for the leadership , two will get only a handful of votes . |
| 8 | ‘ I might get only an hour , or perhaps only half a game from him . |
| 9 | If I can get just a fraction of this spooky atmosphere into my drawings , then they 'll be perfect . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Only I think they might get just a bit mixed up . ’ |
| 11 | He said that even if the Budget measures did help 100,000 unemployed people , as the Chancellor forecast , it meant that ‘ out of every 30 people out of work , 29 will get not a shred of help at all from the Budget ’ . |
| 12 | How could anybody get over a thing like that ? |
| 13 | It had been bought by a northern brewery who could n't believe that they could get over a pound a pint for their best bitter despite what they 'd heard about Londoners . |
| 14 | ‘ But I overhear people 's conversations , and sometimes I 'll get off a bus and follow them if I 'm interested ; or I 'll stand beside people pretending to be looking at something or reading , but actually listening to them . |
| 15 | He felt that he knew the English character and , although he would n't hurt Ludovico by articulating it , he was sure that the sort of English girl who would get off a train and move in with a stranger would very soon be travelling on . |
| 16 | I personally see this is as one of my major objectives over the next year or so , and in a sense it makes me trebly grateful to be here today , because I hope some of the contacts I might make today will enable me to work alongside you in what might be called even local Berkshire band , and to try and get more a multiplicity of views from different organisations channelled through our own value objectives . |
| 17 | If they do go ahead and put the application in , which I think they will , then , that 's the start of the process , so that 's a good time when we will need to really step up the campaign and we will get National speaker 's to meetings , we will get probably a petition , we will go round the area like we did over the er non funding , but we had to do something quickly , to , to make it clear , you know , we do n't want this to go ahead . |
| 18 | Should the government dare to interfere with our private domestic life , let us rise to a man and protest and also let us get up a monster demonstration and march four deep to Trafalgar Square . " |
| 19 | I find I can get up a rhythm with this simple notation , more irregular passes with the lace carriage make me lose count . |
| 20 | ‘ My life 's insured by the department , ’ he explains to Felicity , ‘ so that if anything happens to me you 'd get both a lump sum and a regular income . |
| 21 | encourage movement in your opponent 's position by : summarizing the course of negotiations so far , suggesting that the time has come for mutual concessions suggesting a new position which represents a different point of departure for both parties linking two or more issues since ‘ it might help us get nearer a settlement ’ suggesting an adjournment indicating the exact area to which you want your opponent to pay attention |
| 22 | I thought if he heard her nonsense directed at someone else he would get back a sense of proportion about it . |
| 23 | Sun got Adobe 's source code in the deal , a reasonably rare occurrence , but Adobe figures it 'll get back a lot of implementation improvements . |
| 24 | I want to try and get out a bit earlier today . |
| 25 | He said , " I 'll get out a plan of operations for you , Mr. Fairfax , and work out the value of any Forestry Commission grant it might attract . |
| 26 | Let's get out a computer disk . |
| 27 | Well I think what I 'll do yeah is like when they 're trying to clean my window I 'll open the gu and shoot er open the window yeah and I 'll get out a gun and shoot them . |
| 28 | How much do you get there a week ? |
| 29 | ‘ In my wildest dreams the most I expected was to come on and get maybe a quarter of an hour . |
| 30 | Do you get quite a stuff from the shop . |