Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] get [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a village near Amiens , I found a shop where you can still get tea , and enough cakes to make a schoolboy sick for a week . |
| 2 | Some younger son from among Leicester 's tenants , placed by a dutiful father where he could readily get advancement . |
| 3 | They 're they 're the sort of things that you could never get hold of , you know , that we always kept ourselves . |
| 4 | Headquarters who 'd decreed that we would only get work by |
| 5 | The second thing is that erm with regard to future pro projects , Regional Railways have decreed , that we will only get work through competitive tender . |
| 6 | Regional Railways North East Investment have decreed that we will only get work |
| 7 | General Publius announced to his soldiers that they would soon get proof of the truthfulness of his prophecies : a red wolf would come and eat him up . |
| 8 | Parents often complain that they can only get help or support when they have identified themselves as having a specific problem , and it is not unusual for some families to have several different workers trying to offer support and advice on specific problems which , in reality , are part of a whole situation . |
| 9 | Saibol 's brother , Tepilit , was ready to die because he realized that he would never get justice . |
| 10 | I mean it was what , what and if you go through all the papers you can see that , that Robert Maxwell really saw that self regulation erm legislation being that he could finally get control through an investment management company of his pension funds . |
| 11 | I might be able to pick up Radio 5 when conditions are good cos I can usually get Radio 2 and even RTE ( Irish station ) late in the evening . |
| 12 | ‘ Poor you — and you 'll probably get rheumatism sitting here , unless they all hurry up . |
| 13 | It is a friendly , helpful organisation and you can always get assistance from more experienced people . |
| 14 | These normally take one or two days and you will usually get notice of the inspections in order to alert your team . |
| 15 | ‘ And you 'd probably get pneumonia . |
| 16 | I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache . |
| 17 | On page 13 MARY BAILEY already has the cichlids — but if she could just get hold of a six foot tank … |
| 18 | If you could just get hold of say , the rainbow |
| 19 | Butchers are , on the whole , an ingenious breed , and they could probably get hold of some if you pressed them . |
| 20 | erm which we do , which we have n't got in stock at the moment , but we can always get hold of |
| 21 | But he could always get work in good old BBC radio : that was his stamping ground . |
| 22 | Equally worrying is the fact that deaf people are effectively disenfranchised because they can neither get access to nor take part in the political debate . |
| 23 | A proclamation was issued in 1718 against " unlawful Clubs , Combinations , etc. " of wool combers and weavers : … which had illegally presumed to use a Common Seal , and to act as Bodies Corporate , by making and unlawfully conspiring to execute certain Bylaws or Orders , whereby they pretend to determine who had a right to the Trade , what and how many Apprentices and Journeymen each man should keep at once , together with the prices of all their Manufactures , and the manner and materials of which they should be wrought ; and that , when many of the said Conspiritors wanted work , because their Masters would not submit to such pretended Orders and unreasonable Demands , they fed them with Money , till they could again get employment , in order to oblige their masters to employ them for want of other hands . |