Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | she was walking round Saturday you know , I said look be careful cos you wo n't get your head through the door |
| 2 | And then everything goes wrong when he ca n't get me to go round there and pinch it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There 's something in one of Kipling 's stories about a fellow who says he knows his soul 's gone rotten because he ca n't get drunk any more . |
| 4 | Well you 'll have to go easy because you wo n't get any more until after the weekend ! |
| 5 | There are three worlds to explore : a tropical beach littered with lovely palm trees and lovelier nudists ( do n't get too excited — there are n't any graphics ) , a chilly Arctic zone , and of course the real world — well it 's as real as you 'll ever get in an Avery game ! |
| 6 | I 'm gon na do the eyes when it 's finished because the white went all splodgy cos I could n't get the brush in even though I had a tiny brush . |
| 7 | But selling more slaves would have done it little good if it could not get paid for them , and in the 1680s the planters owed the company money for two full years supply of slaves . |
| 8 | It 's no bloody good if you ca n't get down . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Good cos you wo n't get in a |
| 11 | Yeah no but I mean passive smoking is just that 's , that 's , that 's the way that self erm s smoking is so selfish because you ca n't get away , you know , whether you 're not smoking or not you 're still getting the worst from it . |
| 12 | Priorities only seem useful when we can not get exactly what we want and we have to settle for second-best . |
| 13 | Well as long as we ca n't get it on a Tuesday . |
| 14 | As long as we can possibly get someone to replace them with . |
| 15 | You are kind of dozing but you are not asleep because you ca n't get to sleep because there is a needle sticking in your arm and you have got a drip going on and they come and change the bag and you are constantly feeling sick . |
| 16 | A LABOURER who was depressed because he could n't get a job was found dead in the rear of a stolen van parked behind a college annex , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 17 | It uses lots of expensive gallons of fuel to the mile and it probably has n't got even one of its tanks full so it would n't get any distance . ’ |
| 18 | Once meals are being delivered regularly , the WRVS helper will be very concerned if she can not get an answer when she calls and every effort will be made to ensure that the recipient is safe . |
| 19 | But erm this was cos the Germans were so angry cos they could n't get up there and they lost so many men up there . |
| 20 | The majority of people who come in are angry because they ca n't get anywhere . |
| 21 | Apart from extra weight , the years had not been unkind although she would n't get away with lying about her dress size for too much longer . |
| 22 | It would be really cool if we could like get the erm catapults . |
| 23 | But if Lucy had talked about him and given out some kind of general warning , this could be as far as he 'd ever get . |
| 24 | ‘ I went from feeling useless because I could n't get work to feeling defiant . |
| 25 | ‘ Young people become homeless because they can not get a job and they can not get a job because they have not had a good education . ’ |
| 26 | The early morning was marvellous if you could only get up for it . |
| 27 | I hope everyone will try and find them because it 's disgusting when you ca n't get out |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I only have a few thousand invested , but it is very worrying when you can not get your money back , and there is no way of knowing how long it might be or how much I will get back . ’ |
| 29 | The blue-green pillars of Hamelin Pool are living stromatolites and the groups of them standing on the sun-dappled sea-floor are as close as we may ever get to a scene from the world of two thousand million years ago . |
| 30 | The poor old lady loves a bit of company and her legs are bad so she ca n't get out much . ’ |