Example sentences of "get [vb pp] [prep] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know cancel any of your big debts because it 's going to help your budgeting if you know that you 've got rid of a lot of er |
| 2 | Now you , if you get rid of a lot of , of a lot of the rubbish right ? |
| 3 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 4 | We 're gon na make it safe cos when you 're the door you can actually walk in the door and and get clobbered with a lot of bales I feel so we 're gon na make that safe . |
| 5 | A member of our group had this to say about the writing of this paper : ‘ It will be worth doing if it gets read by a lot of people . |
| 6 | And of course they got knocked about a lot . |
| 7 | An African nationalist commented to some of us the other day , ‘ When we take over , we may get rid of a lot of white people — but we want Don and Penny to stay . ’ |
| 8 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 9 | Yes I 'd love to get rid of a lot of them but I 'm yo you have got two ongoing problems both of which need to be treated so I think to start er cutting things out could make you a lot worse . |
| 10 | ‘ Last time I got booed by a lot of people was in '82 , but this year I was booed a couple of times . |