Example sentences of "get things " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leave a silly old woman alone , Jeff , she 's got things to do . ’ |
| 2 | LONDON UNCLE Ian 's Deli-Diner has got things determinedly backwards . |
| 3 | ‘ And if he 's got things like your class take for granted you jump right on him , say he must have nicked them . |
| 4 | ‘ If he 's got things like your class take for granted , ’ the girl had said , ‘ you say he must have nicked them . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got things like this in my own garage at home . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's got things to do , ’ said his Mum . |
| 7 | I 've got things on my mind . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's no dumb blonde , she has got a skin of steel and by the way she conducts herself you can tell she has got things in proportion too . |
| 9 | The Hampshire batsman said : ‘ The fact is I have n't figured in the last two England sides , and I have still got things to prove . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll tell you on Monday morning , Rossiter , when I 've got things sorted out a bit . |
| 11 | Moreover — and more fundamentally — this way of thinking about Human Liberation has got things backwards . |
| 12 | Again , in discussing punctuated equilibria ( much or the initial impact of which depended on the assertion that Darwin had got things wrong ) it is not until after several pages that we are told ‘ It is at this stage entertaining to realise ’ that Darwin ‘ anticipated the present debate ’ . |
| 13 | It 's just I 've got things to do . ’ |
| 14 | However , once our son arrives , I may have got things on an even keel and be able to take some time off . ’ |
| 15 | That 's why we 've got things like a glossy magazine , a team video ( of the Wallabies in South Africa ) , lunches , golf days and merchandising on the go . |
| 16 | The Merseysiders face a searching examination at Leeds with Souness admitting : ‘ We 've still got things to sort out . ’ |
| 17 | Again Aggie sighed and she half closed her eyes before answering , ‘ No , child , I 'm not vexed with you , but , as I said , I 've got things to see to . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got things to do , ’ she said stiffly , ‘ my mother is an invalid , I have to go and see to her . ’ |
| 19 | Come down 'ere now , there 's a love , Sergeant Joe 's got things to do . ’ |
| 20 | And I instanced Bob Geldof as someone whose commitment to the problem of hunger had certainly got things done , and inspired millions of people to see ( even if only transiently ) that they could make a contribution to a problem that they had previously held in their minds , albeit not very consciously , as ‘ not mine ’ and ‘ hopeless ’ . |
| 21 | The organisers of the annual EAA Convention , held at Wittman Regional Airport , Oshkosh , Wisconsin , have got things down to a fine art , the event runs like clockwork , in fact it would probably do some airshow organisers in Europe a power of good to pay a visit to Oshkosh and see for themselves how fly-ins , airshows and ground exhibitions can , and should , be run . |
| 22 | Back in Frenchay , Caroline , who has never got things out of perspective , changed out of her special Palace outfit and went off to choir practice as if nothing had happened . |
| 23 | You 've got things like socio-cultural factors in terms of paid holidays . |
| 24 | He 's still got things to do . ’ |
| 25 | You can give 'em three thousand a year to er in total to anybody you 've got all the exemptions like two hundred and fifty pound in any one gift erm and you 've got things like five thousand pounds on marriage of a child that you can give , and all these add up little cumulative bits here there and everywhere which helps you to dispose of an estate . |
| 26 | Perhaps we have got things the wrong way round . |
| 27 | Also , we have n't got things in common — like kids . |
| 28 | Maximilian , wanting to make sure he had got things right , repeated in German to Willoughby what Edward had just said , and Willoughby , who spoke German , nodded wanly . |
| 29 | I 've got things to do , Poppa , ’ Cora-Beth said vaguely . |
| 30 | After a while she said , ‘ I 've got things on my mind . ’ |