Example sentences of "[vb base] get [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , sonny , it sticks out a mile that you want to get something off your chest but you 're scared to hell what will happen to you if you do . |
| 2 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 3 | Hope to get something to you for your birthday , but do n't despair if it does n't come on the day . |
| 4 | ‘ hope to get something by it ? … |
| 5 | if you happen to get anything in your eye , right the , the thing I found was , if you just close your eye and then open it again , your contact lens would come up with your |
| 6 | Oh well you 'll ha if you keep getting it on your fingers just eat it up and I 'll wash you when you 've finished . |
| 7 | I try to get them off him but am not always successful . |
| 8 | Try to get it down me before it burns my tongue ! |
| 9 | I still have a lot of friends over there , If we do get them in our group it wo n't worry me too much . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've got myself on his bad side as well , eh ? ’ |
| 11 | You 've got yourself in somebody 's bad books , my girl , so think hard who it is . ’ |
| 12 | I think p maybe Philip it would be best if y er I mean if you 've got somebody up your sleeve who |
| 13 | You 'll be all up , Kieran , Kieran you 've got somebody behind you . |
| 14 | God , you 've got me at it . |
| 15 | We 've got one on her own at the end there , so . |
| 16 | You 've got one on your gate at Dalvaine . |
| 17 | These are n't things you get off in a hurry , so I try and remain calm , although suddenly I 'm pretty certain I 've got one on my chest . |
| 18 | Yeah , cos I 've got one on my pension |
| 19 | And I 've got one on my back . |
| 20 | Ooh you 've got one for yourself ? |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got one for you , too . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got one for you already , ’ said Owen . |
| 23 | That 's he 's gon na come back at me cos like I 've got one over him |
| 24 | They mainly argue about plants ; one will say it 's called so-and-so and the other lady will say it 's not , it 's a so-and-so because I 've got one in my garden . |
| 25 | Well , I 've got one in my bedroom in c cos , when I was in , ill , you know , erm , it 's er , nice to , but I 've got one downstairs , that 's two , that 's two . |
| 26 | Cos I 've got one in my car that 's over two years old and there 's not a , you know nobody 's written anything on it or anything . |
| 27 | cos usually you have to , it is my parents , I 've got one in my parents name as well but it 's just |
| 28 | But , I expect you 've got one in your door anyway . |
| 29 | It 's an Airfix kit , I 've got one like it at home . |
| 30 | You 've got nothing on your feet . |