Example sentences of "[modal v] to get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you have to wait longer than you should to get money back from the Revenue ; |
| 2 | The committee , evidently nettled by this slur , informed Mr. R. G. Rose , the coroner for the North Bedfordshire district , that the council had , in fact , done all that they possibly could to get nurses but without success . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're very sorry and we 'd do anything we could to get Nigel back and the situation restored . ’ |
| 4 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 5 | Yes erm I 'm not looking forward to doing the cos they 've told me about it and he used to get headaches and |
| 6 | She used to get hold of Jonathan |
| 7 | She used to get hold of Jonathan 's face |
| 8 | I used to get bottles of whisky at Christmas and so forth . |
| 9 | And I used to get vegetables you see in from the farmers . |
| 10 | But the second milking , and so forth on , perhaps the thir second or third milking they used to get milk , what they called beastlings and it was very often too much for the calves to take , so she got a full bag . |
| 11 | And I 'd er went to er we went to You can get you used to get apples . |
| 12 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 13 | We used to get , we used to get newspaper , look what were on television |
| 14 | That 's right yes oh we used to get sausages with bread in it and potatoes mainly you know , greens and things like that were the staple diet but they , they used to get rations apart from people 's personal rations being on war work if you can understand . |
| 15 | Used to get deliveries of it for the pigs that 's how they started up . |
| 16 | Now I earned ten and thruppence , used to take the ten and thruppence home and I used to get tenpence ha'penny spending money . |
| 17 | Billingham Woolwork we used to get entertainment nearly every lunchtime in the canteen , sometimes it was a film or live acts , comics and singers and one of the workers named Haydon , formed a small band which he call Butch Blood and the Boston Bashers . |
| 18 | So eventually we , I , I , I used to get er couple slices of bread , and I used to get thruppence every day . |
| 19 | I used to get Doctor Zeuss |
| 20 | In them days they used to get policies on people as were n't relations . |
| 21 | Oh er everything you know , meat and there was one shop down the bottom of the street here , my mother come here one morning , she used to get meat there . |
| 22 | She used to get meat cheap in the butchers . |
| 23 | Erm we used to get complaints about kerb crawlers , but as you know , we had a a new law that was allegedly attributed to Nottingham , which made it an offence to , in certain circumstances to kerb crawl , looking for prostitutes . |
| 24 | That was why a lot of of the old men used to get farmer 's lung then , feeding this stuff in the Winter . |
| 25 | And I goes no he hated it , he used to get detention every day for not wearing his cap he hated it and he did n't do any work . |
| 26 | Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment . |
| 27 | Yes , that 's right in That 's er , that 's where it was , my lad and that was the entry as I used to get access from remembering it ai n't quite like it was now , my lad . |
| 28 | It was dirty and smelly and you used to get spiders and cockroaches : it makes me feel ‘ ergh ’ just to think about it . |
| 29 | even if you were n't in hall , and like girls used to get priority . |
| 30 | When he was at Cardiff College of PE he used to get Gareth Edwards to play . |