Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | They provide unity , and help to give the planting coherence and shape , without which herbs tend to get out of hand , and look wild and woolly , especially towards the end of the season . |
| 2 | ‘ That would get me above 8,000 metres , something a lot of rock climbers want to get to . |
| 3 | Usually , the study points out , the creditors expect to get the lion 's share of any debt relief . |
| 4 | I think to a certain extent the West Indian kids tend to get labelled and these labels they feel they 've got to live up to . |
| 5 | As teenagers tend to get a bad name for being moody , rude and irresponsible — to name but a few choice descriptions often used — I 'd like to tell your readers about my teenage son . |
| 6 | It follows that the tides tend to get carried off the line joining the two bodies , and they can only keep on line if the tides move like slow waves across the surface of each body . |
| 7 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 8 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 9 | Both The Mall and Birdcage Walk are open and you can use Horse Guards Parade to get to the inside of the course and Hyde Park Corner , Victoria or Pall Mall to position yourself outside of the railings . |
| 10 | He gave his departmental heads time to get back to their offices before he rang for Hilary Robarts and asked her to come back . |
| 11 | But if the demand remains intense and protracted , or if new demands keep arriving , then the reserves begin to get drained and overload and pressure start to increase . |
| 12 | Long-time coffee drinkers continue to get the benefits and the effect is more marked among older people , said the Health and Lifestyle Survey published in the journal Psychopharmacology . |
| 13 | RESEARCH to establish what sources schools use to get information about farming has been commissioned by the NFU . |
| 14 | Finally , at least in the social sciences , there would seem to be strong social influences on which methods do get displayed and which are ignored . |
| 15 | Grogan has commented , ‘ Eventually the majority of scientific and medical books do get reviewed at least once , though this is less true of technical books , particularly those of a practical or industrial character ’ . |
| 16 | The fans have got a right to expect that , ’ said Keegan . |
| 17 | ‘ Cos a lot of the fans have got theirs done the same way now . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Cos a lot of the fans have got theirs done the same way now . ’ |
| 19 | Your Mum 's fucking fanny is so wrinkly the crabs have got walking sticks . |
| 20 | all our primary schools have got it . |
| 21 | But if we get , we , it seemed to me I mean Deborah raised it and I think there is a way of doing it , which would be for example erm looking at the agreements , how many schools have got agreements ? |
| 22 | I think the time has probably passed now , all the schools have got their own budgets , they 've got their own builders who are giving them a good service , and I doubt whether this is the time to resurrect that , especially with local government review not far off , and the future of a county-wide D S O in some doubt , when it comes to local government review . |
| 23 | Well , yes of course , I mean I , the schools have got programs I mean you can , you know they er |
| 24 | People kept saying , ‘ Oh , well , the schools have got to justify everything they do to the public , they 've got to be accountable . ’ |
| 25 | The Pilot Survey showed some monitoring , further standardisation of the equipment was essential , mainly though , I 'm going to make sure all schools have got the same pipes and connector and I 'm going to give them some solutions to test because there was a bit of variation between schools , and there will be variation geographically , so I want to be able to have a measure of any error that will be involved as well . |
| 26 | And if your readers have got any more questions about these wonderful machines , we might be able to help you out . |
| 27 | Only your detective , perhaps , will need to be seen in somewhat greater depth , since your readers have got to sympathise with him or her and to do that they probably need more than just one point of contact . |
| 28 | But of course , the modernizers have got their eye on a bit of the Party operation in need of their attention . |
| 29 | Chief Trading Standards Officer Ken Wardale said : ‘ Our local traders have got the message that selling fireworks to young children is not worth the risk of prosecution . |
| 30 | Yes it was a big , it was a square , big square room and er we were all young people up there except the foreman and erm some lived in , one lady live in she was named , then there was another one who lived in Street she was named and er there was a Violet there 's a Winkles butchers shop is n't there , Winkles have got one in Road at Willenhall , yes there was Violet and er |