Example sentences of "[vb -s] to get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very little mess occurs , about the worst that can happen is that the jet gets clogged causing the ink drops to get oversized or the reservoir is removed without being capped . |
| 2 | ‘ She wants to get pregnant , does she ? ’ a masked technician asks the gynaecologist , who nods . |
| 3 | She wants to get all her knee ! |
| 4 | The man wants to get rich . |
| 5 | Yes , Tuesdays , the accounts manager , I think if everybody wants to get that reaction , if that 's the regular reaction that they get , you know , people dumping on them all the time , it is water off a duck 's back , you take it more , you take it more on board if it is an occasional thing , . |
| 6 | Now we are about to witness a similar case in Britain where a young girl wants to get shut of mummy and daddy and live at her boyfriend 's home . |
| 7 | Half your army wants to hang back and shoot , the other half wants to get stuck in as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | He just wants to get fit , and get back to work . |
| 9 | Marianne Talbot , you 're a philosophy don at Pembroke College , a feminist and member of the Three Hundred Group , which wants to get three hundred women into Parliament by the year two thousand , what do you think of John Major 's treatment of women so far ? |
| 10 | If he wants to get another club , he has to pull his finger out . |
| 11 | But he has , we we 've only got , my husband 's got a computer at work , we just got one of the Segas , the master systems you know that you you got th the games that you put in those but he wants to get another one next year but that 's a good idea something like that ! |
| 12 | ‘ Nobody wants to get old , but ageing is one of those things that 's going to happen and I 'm just going to let it . |
| 13 | she wants to get some money |
| 14 | She got herself a job in Reading college , she got somebody to take her down there and a place to get an English A Level , and Mary said it 's a thing with her she wants to get this English A Level cos her father had one and she feels that is she could get and English A Level it would impress him , he , she spends her life trying to impress her father who does n't really takes much notice of her , . |
| 15 | But my instructions for the lads have always been that if you go to a job for a lady particularly and then a man comes along and starts to get stroppy , you 'll have to explain to the lady you may have to leave it temporarily and go back . |
| 16 | It starts to get rockier too , as you soon realize driving along the valley road past Bid array , which has been cut through the often quite garish sandstone . |
| 17 | When the interchange starts to get heated , ask the rest of the meeting for their views . |
| 18 | From the top of Mynydd Tal-y-mignedd descend south on the grass until the path starts to get steep ( 534–509 ) . |
| 19 | So is everybody with us so far , because this is when it starts to get difficult . |
| 20 | Erm that 's when it starts to get busy because there 's like the there 's like the eleven til three kind of kind of kind of busy time er |
| 21 | We ought to go in before it starts to get cold . ’ |
| 22 | this is the er survival technique take your coat off supposing you in London tube and it 's broken down plus this thing 's not as useful , do you remember what happened , know how starts to get cold , take you w wearing a coat in winter take your coat off |
| 23 | Many good exercise programmes stop when life and the usual routine starts to get chaotic or change for some reason . |
| 24 | A one-wave wipeout I can handle , but two waves , that 's when it starts to get marginal . ’ |
| 25 | And er if we can get it to just , well a wee bit of rest , we get to the stage where it er starts to get soft again . |
| 26 | He needs to get betrothed fast and naturally he wants his little heifer to be rich . |
| 27 | USL says it ‘ would be happy to help Sun do that , ’ but SunSoft , which also has a seat on USL 's board , is currently lobbying hard to get its own views adopted by UI , and to do that it needs to get other members on its side . |
| 28 | Under German electoral law , a party needs to get 5 per cent before it is represented . |
| 29 | He probably needs to get lost so often so that his mother will find him and remember to tell him that she loves him . |
| 30 | ‘ He needs to get fit and to improve his sharpness but it 's up to him to show that he can do a job for us , ’ said Flynn . |