Example sentences of "get [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say you 're an adult but because you are still in the school situation you still get treated as a child . |
| 2 | They get trapped in a place and there , it 's filling with water and they , they 've got ta get them , they got ta , they gon na drown because it 's filling with water and they got ta get out , get out before the room fills with water completely . |
| 3 | Hardest hit are small businessmen and the unemployed who get sucked into a string of debt , partly as a result of easy credit , added Mr Milburn . |
| 4 | Why ? you get get snogged at a disco . |
| 5 | ‘ We get attacked by a monster , the monster gets zapped by a flying saucer and now you fancy a chat with God Almighty . |
| 6 | You get caught between a weight pushing down , and the seat , the pressure on the seat . |
| 7 | ‘ Before when I was boostin' it was shoplifting , misdemeanour , doin' 90 days — nowadays it 's robbery one , and attempted assault if you get caught with a razor . |
| 8 | Get born in Iran , emigrate to the US , get caught in a pot you should never have been in , and wait till it climbs into seven figures before you call and fill an 11–1 inside straight . |
| 9 | Oh yeah does the little kid get smashed by a train ? |
| 10 | ‘ Go on , ’ I urged in completion , ‘ get done by a vic . ’ |
| 11 | Young males that regularly harass a particular harem owner finally get accepted as a member of the harem . |
| 12 | In behavioural terms this usually occurs when people participating in the meeting get locked into an information loop . |
| 13 | To put it into some form of perspective it is perhaps worth reviewing the whole issue of how fonts get displayed on a computer screen and why the method chosen to display them has become so important . |
| 14 | Now you , if you get rid of a lot of , of a lot of the rubbish right ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I get asked to a party with John Paul Getty II and he does n't show . |
| 18 | ‘ We get hit by a squall , things will get busy , ’ he warned Louis and the hit squad 's leader , Mario . |
| 19 | ‘ I see this as such a rite of passage — you get signed to a major , you get money , you go into the studio , a big 24-track hubbub , either it sells or it does n't . |
| 20 | First they send you all round the town and then you get processed into a system with thousands of other people and it does n't feel at all like driving to a town on the coast and just getting on a boat . |
| 21 | My grass roots were general practice and I liked talking to people and solving problems , but as you get promoted within a firm you lose that personal contact . |
| 22 | If you have not trained your lecturer to give you the information to which you are entitled — that he is to deal with such and such a topic on specific days — then get started with a process of attrition , backed by your friends , until he does produce a programme for the term . |
| 23 | Once people get hooked on a show you have them . ’ |
| 24 | We went to the races and watched Nolan ride Fiona 's horse Groundsel and get beaten by a length into second place , and we watched Sam ride two of Tremayne 's runners unprofitably and then win for another trainer . |
| 25 | Mr William Soeryadjaya ( Chinese name : Mr Tjia Kian Liong ) , the 67-year old seigneur , is a founder-member of the Euro-Asia Centre at INSEAD , the Paris-based business school where Astra 's middle managers get sent for a spot of polishing . |
| 26 | ‘ You get attached to a ship , and I feel very sentimental about it . |
| 27 | Get working on a fitness programme to suit you — it will alleviate that post-winter sluggish feeling too . |
| 28 | How does the heroic voice and the heroic image of the black woman get suppressed in a culture that depended on her heroism for its survival ? ’ |
| 29 | If you get married in a registry office , which I did , you do n't say an , in England , you do n't say anything other than that you take this chap to be your husband , and you interpret that to be as you wish . |
| 30 | You could , for nothing , real or imagined , the slightest slight , get crippled in a place like this . |