Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] to get [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly this is something we do not wish to be associated with ; we can only imagine they are trying to get some kind of spurious respectability by using our name . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I think the values for leasing are perhaps on the low side , considering that people know what they are going to get this year . |
| 3 | and they 're trying to get some record of , of what |
| 4 | Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like |
| 5 | They 're going to get some things wrong every now and then . |
| 6 | Yeah because they think they 're going to get more , do n't they ? |
| 7 | A a at the time , they were trying to get this place looked at and surveyed , and everything to get it , you know to see what they could do about it , get it closed down , but er they had n't got that far with that then . |
| 8 | Well they 're getting increasing control , increasing control but not and er so yo what you 're saying is that , is that even if , if you go back to the reality of nineteen forty eight , actually they did n't realize they were going to get that control as quickly . |
| 9 | The reason I joined was I thought they were going to get more money for me , not take it away . ’ |