Example sentences of "they [vb past] to get the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities had their fingers burnt before when they tried to get the software up and running and then found that the Government were changing the rules . |
| 2 | they tried to get the score moving as best they could … but Derbyshire had different ideas … |
| 3 | Many of the musicians were unused to working with dancers and once when the band was out of tempo , the Girls started singing as they danced to get the music synchronized . |
| 4 | They said they went to get the food at Waitrose , and I heaved , and I said , I do n't want to see |
| 5 | You get Ann , senile dementia , they had to get the taps off the gas fire because she kept turning it on and off without it being lit again , found wandering in her nightclothes , injustice , and then we found Eileen , who was in an upstairs room , yes she enjoyed that life for about five years , great council house then she had an accident and then because she could n't re-house her , she was a virtual prisoner inside her own home that she 'd made up . |
| 6 | The Fort was a warren of underground tunnels and batteries and in every way a security nightmare , and the Prince 's staff and members of BitC ( also involved in the outing ) , who had done the recce , realized they had to get the Prince away from the youth schemes and down into the safety of the seminar very quickly . |
| 7 | my uncle 's gone oh fuck off like this and he started to put his fork in again and we goes , my dad goes well that look distinctly like a three inch mortar shell so I would n't put any more in there if , I would n't put your fucking fork 's in there again if I was you , they had to get the bomb squad out , they diffused it , they found about five fucking mortar bombs |
| 8 | They had to get the police to break the door down . ’ |
| 9 | John Carty , Clyde secretary of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions , said Yarrow management would have to improve the deal if they wanted to get the workers round a table and an early end to the strike . |
| 10 | I have a simple question for the Minister : is it true that the Government said that , whatever the deal might be , they intended to get the Bill through the House by Christmas ? |