Example sentences of "[verb] get he [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is amazing , with hindsight , to see the awakening of the theory of evolution dismissed by Gould as nothing more than a number of ‘ pleasing chats ’ ; but Gould was not a revolutionary and never claimed to be ; his en tire life and all of his works were designed to get him accepted by society and by science , not rejected by them . |
| 2 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 3 | Another prisoner wrote to me recently , and I am now seeking to get him transferred to a prison nearer his home in Liverpool . |
| 4 | The British government said it would try to get him returned to Britain . |
| 5 | He publicly endorsed the death sentence on Salman Rushdie — an act which oddly failed to get him charged with the crime of incitement to murder — and wants to set up a Muslim parliament . |
| 6 | Gemayel was also a good friend of Israel and the CIA was hoping to get him elected as president of Lebanon . |