Example sentences of "he [vb mod] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the high points in the life of Ellen Garwood , a wealthy Texas widow and author , was the day she sat with Reagan in the Oval Office ( ’ we had Sanka ’ ) and told him that he ought to get rid , first , of the Sandinistas , and second of the secretary of state . |
| 2 | He ought to get up and go , just like that , and to hell with the lot of them . |
| 3 | ‘ He ought to get rid of the lot , ’ his nan used to say . |
| 4 | It was true what they had said ; he ought to get to bed and rest ; ought to take a break from his duties for a day or so and let Li Yuan take up his burden as Regent . |
| 5 | Erm I told him he ought to get erm , one of these rotovators and a plough underneath |
| 6 | He may get muddled , and perhaps put dirty clothes into the oven instead of the washing machine , or food into the dustbin instead of the saucepan . |
| 7 | If he has had a very good recovery , he may get onto the plinth at a low height and kneel on all fours , and then be guided downwards to lie on his stomach . |
| 8 | In this wind he dare not extend his front arm since he may get pulled over , so instead , he is crouching low and leaning slightly forwards which achieves the same upright rig effect as Ken had . |
| 9 | Is n't there a good chance he may get a scholarship ? ’ |
| 10 | Even if he is trying to attend to the perspectival appearance presented to his point of view he may get it wrong . |
| 11 | There 's a chance he may get in touch with you . ’ |
| 12 | If he pleads guilty and begs for the mercy of the court , he may get off with a fine and deportation . |
| 13 | Of course , being in the army , he may get posted abroad one of these days and I do n't know if I want to leave London — it 's such jolly good fun now I 'm out . |
| 14 | Though Behr did n't profit directly from his work on the show , he may get to write the book of the show . |
| 15 | Yesterday Slaven said of Colin 's ambitions : ‘ Everyone can dream and he may get his dream it 's a strange game . |
| 16 | If he is lucky , he may get one of the party heavyweights to come and support him , in which case he will probably attract a bigger crowd . |
| 17 | but he may get it over and above after six months depending what |
| 18 | The Civil Service in Britain has always this feeling that the problem with a specialist is that he may get too committed to his specialism . |
| 19 | It 's the race of his life and he should get the result of his life . ’ |
| 20 | I think he should get a hearing aid — it 's easier than shouting all the time . |
| 21 | It 's bad enough that he should get two things wrong about what is perhaps one of the best known poems in the English language . |
| 22 | If Mr Moynihan is keen to hang on to his job he should get on to FIFA now and tell them to make the booking . |
| 23 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 24 | I was slightly surprised that he should get to the front so early , in his other races he 's usually slow to get going . |
| 25 | John Cassevetes got the part and thus ended Nicholson 's brief hope of a major starring role , and provided further incentive to the prevailing thought that he should get out of acting . |
| 26 | Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan . |
| 27 | Even then , if at all possible , he should get up for meals . |
| 28 | His greatest concern was that I should be strong and brave , good at games , good at work , and that he should get his money 's worth from my education . |
| 29 | I did n't see why he should get away with it so I decided to make his day for him . |
| 30 | Perhaps he should get in touch |