Example sentences of "[vb -s] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | So La Laura now thinks got a sore stomach because she 's hungry . |
| 2 | In Scotland , sales at Thins got off to a good start in December , became tougher , then ended with a gallop . |
| 3 | The first quarter is not even over yet , but already Merrill Lynch & Co analyst Daniel Mandresh is lowering his estimate for IBM Corp 's 1993 earnings ( before the inevitable charges ) — and yes , his forecast has gotten from rotten to worse : he is now going for a range of 50 cents to $1.00 a share from a previous $1 to $1.50 , saying poor mainframe sales continue to overshadow the improvements in other areas . |
| 4 | The Open Software Foundation 's Research Institute has gotten a three-year multi-million dollar research contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) and the Air Force Material Command to develop a distributed operating system for high-performance computing . |
| 5 | The Microprocessor Report has gotten wind of at least one other low-cost , low-power R4000 derivative in the works beside the NEC/MIPS VRX . |
| 6 | Next Computer Inc , which has been through a tidy sum already , has gotten further financing : this time a $55m credit line from Canon Inc and another $10m from Steve Jobs himself — both are former investors already . |
| 7 | But we also seen buoyant magazine that has gotten better every month , a title which is building a legacy in Britain that will last . |
| 8 | Elean : Some people say that since the Namibian independence agreement and the lessening of Botha 's power in the government the situation in South Africa has gotten better ; that there are renewed hopes for an amicable settlement with the liberation forces . |
| 9 | All in all , Rocastle has gotten a raw deal from Leeds . |
| 10 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 11 | It has a mass of flowers in August but has got very straggly . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , your Lucy has got you winding her chain , darling , and she just wo n't take her feet off the ground and let go — am I right ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The trouble is , Miss Galahad , this flaming green-eyed redhead has got under your skin , she 's growing with you darling , like mistletoe on an oak . |
| 14 | Recall that at the beginning of this piece I briefly discussed what the representational theory of the mind has got right : that thoughts are not simple responses , reactions or reverberations to environmental stimulation — contrasting this with the case of the thermostat which automatically switches on and off at pre-set temperatures . |
| 15 | Something has got to give : all these italicized attributions can not be true of the same person at once . |
| 16 | There has been a political revolution in Paddock Wood in Kent , though it has got marginally less press coverage than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the failed Russian coup . |
| 17 | I tend to be rather disorganised when packing gear , so anything that helps me keep things in the right place has got to be a bonus . |
| 18 | The reader is both astonished and utterly convinced , as he is later on in the interview when Porfiry plays the dangerous game of saying he has got no real proof , he 's going on hunch and ‘ psychology ’ — so Raskolnikov had better confess . |
| 19 | He has got off lightly : we learn with mildly comic surprise of mitigating circumstances : he had been good to a consumptive fellow student , and he had saved two children from a blazing house , getting burnt himself while doing so . |
| 20 | The Raskolnikov of Crime and Punishment has got unused to everything ; all the calm pressures of habit are denied him , his punishment has begun . |
| 21 | The document which Bishop Tikhon will read puts Raskolnikov in Svidrigailov 's shoes because it is a record of the excesses a mortally jaded palate has got up to . |
| 22 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
| 23 | He is a young friend of Stepan Verkhovensky , and when the notebooks record that Granovsky ( Stepan 's prototype ) has got out of hand they are also heralding the novelist 's escape into a fictional mode of enormous suppleness . |
| 24 | Sometimes he is just a secondary figure floating in the novel 's bloodstream , as at the fête where he has got roped in with a few other young men to be a marshal and make sure everything goes smoothly . |
| 25 | But one has got to be realistic . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're still fighting that one , ’ Bromley says , ‘ but peak-time scheduling has got harder and harder to break into . |
| 27 | If theatre artists of this calibre are prepared to launch a production from Plymouth , it seems a fair bet that the Theatre Royal management has got its act together . |
| 28 | The message behind the report is that the majority of parents has got it all wrong . |
| 29 | It remains to be seen how much Biggs has got left and even Duff has made mistakes . |
| 30 | Our concentration has got to be on the teaching and on the stretching of children . |