Example sentences of "[vb -s] to get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He really wants to get things right . |
| 2 | the cat wants to get dwon the steis |
| 3 | That body 's president has welcomed the formation of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa ( NOCSA ) , representing all sorts of rival sporting associations , whose chairman , Sam Ramsamy — a veteran campaigner for the sports boycott — now wants to get South Africans back into international competition . |
| 4 | He just wants to get sweets out of me , that 's the thing ! |
| 5 | and she wants to get Tony and Constance together |
| 6 | ‘ If that happens the health authority is going to have to foot the bill for a taxi or ambulance if it wants to get people to hospital . |
| 7 | Whether he wants to get F M onto the agenda and firm that up as a date for a meeting . |
| 8 | She needs to get help does n't she ? |
| 9 | She does , and then it just fades into the background she will have to go if she needs to get bread and milk and things tomorrow I 'll have to take her . |
| 10 | These are the two real components that we need from people , everybody needs to get trust and co-operation . |
| 11 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |
| 12 | he 's married and has to get sperm to get children . |
| 13 | The government has to get money from somewhere , and it is logical that it should look at the whole area of VAT . |
| 14 | But he has to get Johnny to Disneyland . |
| 15 | The only problem is , one of them 's still only thirteen and has to get time off school to play gigs . |
| 16 | I 'm sure you must need support and , if your husband refuses to get advice , then you have to consider your own needs . |
| 17 | The White House declined to confirm or deny reports that the Bosnian president , Alija Izetbegovic , had sent an appeal to President Bill Clinton for US airdrops to get supplies to Muslims trapped in eastern Bosnia . |
| 18 | And she says to get Dave when he comes in , I says yeah but I 'm supposed to tell people about it . |
| 19 | It took me ages to get Iris , the landlady of the Duke of Wellington , to answer the phone . |
| 20 | Many of these are designed to speed up your computer , especially the time it takes to get graphics up on-screen . |
| 21 | ‘ The further west you go the bigger the time change and the longer it takes to get replies from Val Catto . ’ |
| 22 | Will he take steps to ensure that buses have greater priority over other road users and to eliminate one of the major causes of road congestion in London — the long time that it takes to get passengers loaded on to one-man operated buses because drivers have to give change to passengers ? |
| 23 | International : Expo 92 will be ready manana Seville struggles to get show ready |
| 24 | The Maastricht deal is under threat as Premier John Major struggles to get agreement on a series of deals . |
| 25 | They will probably correctly object that this theory of mine seems to get things round the wrong way , and that even if we grant my argument that growth in the power of the state detracts from that of the individual 's superego , there is every reason to suppose that in most cases the total power came first , and the deterioration in personality , however we like to describe it , later . |
| 26 | Some of them have a lot of stuff , you know I do n't seem to ever get hold of the stuff me , to tables and that little Eric in there he seems to get loads of stuff |
| 27 | If you want your weans to get homework then give it to them your tucking self . |
| 28 | In the first group session the counselling method is registered in the course tutor 's notes ( Menary , 1986 ) by the explanation : ‘ This session aims to get participants to consider the subject of alcohol in ways they had not thought of in the past ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 29 | Even with such opportunities as the Bill presents to get cases into the Crown court , where the offence involves only damage to vehicles or property — the vast bulk of cases — it is the value of the damage to property , as set out in clause 2 , that is the criterion , not the extent of the nuisance and danger , although that is the real problem with which we need to get to grips . |
| 30 | It hopes to get drives using the new technology onto the market in about two years . |