Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got up and went down to the kitchen to start getting their dinner . |
| 2 | Erm to my self respect and I just I was determined that it was n't going to happen to my daughter , so in consequence I saw that working on the side to get to get the uniform so that she could go to school in a new uniform same as all the other kids as a necessity . |
| 3 | First the marshals would n't even let Hunt get back into the car to try to get himself going again ; then , on the long walk back to the pits , Hunt , head hung , had to face the most vituperative barrage of noise and insult I have ever heard . |
| 4 | She had to take all her clothes off and wear just the chiffon tunic with the white satin ribbons criss-crossed between her breasts ( which , she observed with interest , seemed to have grown and the nipples to have got rather darker . ) |
| 5 | The track of the animals seemed likely to take them within two hundred yards of their hiding place , so they should crawl out onto the plain to try to get a shot from half that range . |
| 6 | We were in the forest to try to get less deep snow , he was told ; we were going to a campsite that Odd-Knut had prepared . |
| 7 | In capital-goods industries , where knowledgeable buyers are more informed about the technical attributes of different products , Porter 's argument about the need to avoid getting ‘ stuck in the middle ’ may be more sustainable . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been second five times in the last three years and I 'm over the moon to have got home first at last . ’ |
| 9 | I had to keep the wingtip in sight of the ground to avoid getting disorientated . |
| 10 | From what i understand you have got to go out of the road to get to get er well this er well whatever it is , this |
| 11 | While you 're waiting for the kettle to boil get a cup from the cupboard and put one so , erm teaspoonful of coffee in it and then put two spoonful of sugar . |
| 12 | The number to ring to get on Bargain Basement right now is . |
| 13 | This would be of obvious benefit to the spider , whose web would last longer , but it would also help the bird to avoid getting dirtied by sticky spider silk . |
| 14 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 15 | At the other Delhi parties we had been to — mostly boring official events — it had been a struggle to avoid getting cornered by some grey under-secretary from the Ministry of Fertilizer Distribution . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems a shame to have got so far and to be stuck on the last few , ’ said Judith , who can be contacted on 0420 22108 . |
| 17 | But there 's no need to join to get out on the water . |
| 18 | I said there was no need to have got him a plate . |
| 19 | Assertion you 're clear about what you want , you ca n't there 's no need to get get up about it there 's no need to worry about it this is what you want and this is the way it is , you do n't have to shout , you just have to stick to your point . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're a clot to have got up . |
| 21 | The girl , of Pitsea , Essex , has spent 14 hours a day with two specially trained policewomen and a counsellor to try to get information on the rapist . |
| 22 | But there is every reason to try to get as much support for change as possible . |
| 23 | The PC magazine market needs a reasonably priced down to earth mag so I hope your circulation goes from strength to strength but on present showing there 's a lot to do to get it right , Andrew H. |
| 24 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 25 | Major Burrows suffered a great deal with asthma and had taken leave from the corps for a year to try to get control of the symptoms which were becoming chronic . |
| 26 | Frankly , we would have a mountain to climb to get ‘ The Stiffs ’ into Europe , but you never know . |
| 27 | ‘ How about Communists in government ? ’ suggested a friend to Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin , who was looking round for an issue to help get him re-elected . |