Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] get " in BNC.

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1 Despite his tuggings with the wrench he could n't get the screw to shift .
2 Parker turned out out be one of those people whom Glass only saw ‘ through the windows of the clubs I could n't get into . ’
3 Erm it smothers the flames they ca n't get oxygen if there 's carbon dioxide around .
4 Erm , you 've got that to tend with and erm on top of that erm , you ca n't ware of if you 've got a pass yes , I , you 've then have to er , get , you know , whether though it 'll be going to a and at the moment there suppose to be very , very low so they ca n't do that any more and then you 'll have to , the vet will then do the treatment for the animal , but again you do n't get the vet you 'll only get the training vet 's to do the job and then they reclaim from the R S P C A , so it , no way that they have n't got any funds .
5 Maggie would have left at that point , but as her bed was in the kitchen she could n't get into it until after he 'd left the room .
6 Against the wind he ca n't get any er meat behind the clearance .
7 George has asked if Pat could possibly get teaching or worship tapes for the Christians there as they are very short of any kind of material , especially the Filipinos who can not get anything from home .
8 Until any of the other ones bear fruit , because the Guildhall I ca n't get anything on the elections till April the sixth , erm I ca n't get anything from the Scottish tapes until they start arriving , erm whatever .
9 I 'd just like to second that it was a good day and also to point out as the er man who made the postcards we should n't get too excited about this as a money making scheme .
10 Her father is a casual miner and on the days he ca n't get work her income is all they have .
11 At the moment I can never get voted out of it you know .
12 They had handcuffs on me and I 've still got marks on my hands — you can see — where the handcuffs were put on so tight that when I got to the station they could n't get them off me .
13 ‘ My lord , ’ said Philip , ‘ you shall have from the Prince the pledge you can not get from Harry .
14 If you needed a new sanitary towel in the night you could n't get one .
15 D' ya think it 's harder to talk to the person you ca n't get .
16 Stretchy long tube skirts are an alternative , but they too are impractical : if you sit for most of the day you will undoubtedly get knee-bagging , and they are not flattering to most posteriors .
17 Stretchy long tube skirts are an alternative , but they too are impractical : if you sit for most of the day you will undoubtedly get knee-bagging , and they are not flattering to most posteriors .
18 Of course when he gets over the timidness he 'll probably get up to more mischief .
19 Anyone who wants to change anything will have to somehow change it without altering the figures because they 're settled and we know that if we ever go back to No. 10 or the Cabinet we 'll always get the backing of the Prime Minister and the appellant will always be overturned . ’
20 The Secretary of State should join that lot out there who keep losing their jobs and the people who can not get a job .
21 So that 's why your top ten names really , the no , the people you 'll probably get appointments with , you do n't want to be ringing them all up on Thursday night , otherwise you 'll blow them all .
22 Depending on their flair and the quality of their training they will need differing degrees of support , and depending on the school and the LEA they will either get it or not .
23 In fact , any argument directed against the applicability of the idea of identity to meanings is really self-stultifying , for such an argument would imply , among other things , that no topic could be significantly referred to as " the same " on two separate occasions , with the inevitable consequence that the argument itself could not get off the ground .
24 erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ?
25 However I applied and then sought the advice and prayers of Christian friends and we prayed that if it was n't from the Lord I would n't get accepted .
26 Sir right , you know if you go for a blood transfusion and you 're a smoker , how do you know that when you have the transfusion you wo n't get the ten percent of the blood that 's not working properly ?
27 And since it was the end of the belt I could n't get i go by anybody with me , I had to move it .
28 If you look at the w if you look around the windows you 'll always get a drip course .
29 And I 'm just wondering what the the knock on effect of that is in the visiting of the , the members who ca n't get into church and who ca n't receive communion in church , and who may like to receive it in their home , or in the home , where they live .
30 So quite clearly individual family situations will change , and I 'd like to use this opportunity to get the message across to everybody who 's listening that when we introduce the charges you 'll all get a letter , and the letter will say also that there is a waiver scheme , and the procedure you should go through to be considered for that .
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