Example sentences of "by the [noun] [pron] get " in BNC.

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1 This is his favourite event , together with the Open — an event where he is as surprised as he is flattered by the support he gets from the British public .
2 The Club is almost entirely financed by the proceeds it gets from turning a large part of the Club into a giant car park throughout The Championships .
3 Because although it could be argued that what an utterance means is readily recoverable by anyone who can read printed English , it is important to understand that what the speaker wishes to express is more often than not defined by the factors which get lost in the process of transcription .
4 ‘ I 'm disappointed by the stick he gets because I know him as a person .
5 That 's evident by the letters we get . ’
6 Are not many British firms unduly handicapped by the harassment they get from regulatory bodies such as the Fair Employment Commission ?
7 It is n't broadcast to the rest of the manor by the way they got close circuit T V .
8 ‘ I seem to remember that excuse has already been used by the man who got the human race thrown out of Eden . ’
9 Yeah , we need to talk about this , because I mean when I saw he was upset by the treatment he got from I presume it was before , the way she dealt with him erm and he believed you know , he was big enough to be dealt with by the national accounts department .
10 So in this particular example we 've got a single channel conductance of six picoamps , six times ten to the minus twelve amps , divided by forty millivolts , four times ten to the minus three volts , and just dividing one by the other we get a value of a hundred and fifty times ten to the minus twelve siemens which is the us unit of er conductance , note it has an I in it .
11 I said I did n't make myself homeless and he said no I did n't realise by November we , well we went down , that was the September and by the October we got our home did n't we ?
12 And judging by the calls we got after the programme , there was n't much time .
13 For example , the target sentence The beer was warm was preceded by the context We got some beer out of the trunk in the direct antecedent condition and by the context We checked the picnic supplies in the indirect antecedent condition .
14 Of course , other people may respond differently to you and you may be boosted by the results you get .
15 Multiply by the complex you get again , and work the Z square that 's pretty hard to multiply M , I , square minus one , do that by changing the imaginary , and multiply by , then you get an answer .
16 By the time one gets to Derrida , the latest and youngest of the sequence , Nietzsche 's myth of art has itself been dissolved by Derrida 's pervasive irony : ‘ If Nietzsche is an ironic mythmaker , Derrida seems only ironic : the radicality of his irony undermines any pretension to myth .
17 ‘ It was absolutely freezing and by the time we got the fish to the deeper water the carp sacks were frozen , ’ added Ian who also broke two landing nets during the rescue .
18 By the time we got to Trafalgar Square the crowds were thick on the pavements and cheering anything that moved .
19 By the time we got to the pub stomachs were beginning to rumble .
20 By the time we got back there was a marquee in the garden .
21 By the time we got him to his box it was obvious he was badly hurt .
22 By the time we got back in 1979 the CPRS had already changed beyond recognition .
23 The carcass , unfortunately , was in quite an advanced state of decomposition by the time we got to it , so we could not look at the detailed histology ( cell structure ) of the internal organs or the central nervous system .
24 There was quite a procession by the time we got to the church , St Paul 's , and as we entered the organ played ‘ Here Comes the Bride ’ .
25 And by the time we got the all clear , the midnight train had gone , too .
26 One such quiet stroll had become a 12-mile hike by the time we got back to our hotel .
27 He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there .
28 ‘ Emor was extraordinarily detailed by the time we got to Abbotsfield .
29 By the time we got home — the gatehouse to Wytham Abbey — Michael was saying things like , ‘ It 's ugly , but that 's partly the point ’ .
30 By the time we got back it was dropping dark ;
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