Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [verb] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is a good thing that someone sensible should be doing so for the subject has got into the hands of theorists of the most tiresome sort . |
| 2 | I think he s more use in the squad for the money wed get for him . |
| 3 | They were Ian Macleod and Enoch Powell , who were not natural bedfellows , but who for the moment had got into a huddle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No er well well if he 's got any sense I I always tell the advertiser I said now the adv I said you as the advertiser have got to keep worrying you may have to chivvy them up . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I believe I had walked a little way along the roadside , peering through the foliage hoping to get a better view , when I heard a voice behind me . |
| 8 | When you when you were a young boy I was gon na ask get off the island manage to get |
| 9 | Then they 'd give you order for next morning when , when meat got more freer , you know , when there was more of it , after the war had got over . |
| 10 | Yeah most of the games have got duff continues . |
| 11 | Four generations of Glynns , and the fourth of the dynasty had got himself murdered in his own office ; no heat-of-the-moment crime either , but a carefully planned murder executed in cold blood out of hatred , or fear , or obsessive greed . |
| 12 | Only four of the others managed to get more than 1,000 votes . |
| 13 | When every member of the society had got his house the society was wound up . |
| 14 | Any of the 'ates any of the 'ates have got oxygen in |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | I lie there , gulping for air , terrified of the man coming to get me while I lie there helpless ; then I hear a scream . |
| 17 | The widening of the franchise in the nineteenth century , House of Lords reform , and votes for women in the twentieth — these are issues that aroused great emotion and were fiercely opposed but on which reform was accepted once the government of the day had got the measure accepted by Parliament . |
| 18 | I 'm all in favour of the Government seeking to get the best value for money , but HMSO is not a private company . ’ |
| 19 | Talking at all above the screech of the wind was difficult and he had to make his explanation short : ‘ Mariana , the men running this coup set up roadblocks this morning to pick up any of the Government trying to get into Belpan City . |
| 20 | Some of the crew tried getting along the bank — you know how people are sometimes found clinging to the branches of trees overhanging the river a mile or so downstream . |
| 21 | some of the joins have got to be touched up yet . |
| 22 | Meanwhile as my visits to South Africa showed me in such a traumatic and depressing way the conditions of the majority have got worse there 's economic recession lay-offs , high inflation rate and growing violence more people have been killed in South Africa in the last two years than in any previous two years that you look at . |
| 23 | Some of the things have got famous names some have n't . |
| 24 | One of , one of , one of the women had got this final six did she win ? |
| 25 | The love of the hills has got into your blood , |
| 26 | The driver of the Vauxhall had got out of her car and was advancing with menaces . |
| 27 | And at least some of the girls have got a taste for modelling . |
| 28 | One of the girls have got bronchitis so |
| 29 | Talking about front doors I 've noticed that a lot of the houses have got two doors on the front side |
| 30 | Many of the players refused to get into shorts , and the Empire goalie wore cricket pads over striped long johns . |