Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I begin to think , though , that Robert Sheldrake was right when he said that the farm work — and in their case they 'll probably get plenty — would be their bread and butter , and the small animals their jam . |
| 2 | So they 'll all get icons now , they 'll appear as icons on your er applications . |
| 3 | If Richard , who suffers badly from asthma , had children , they might not get asthma . |
| 4 | They could n't get work and my poor old Dad went miles round these outside villages , on a a old lady 's push-bike , trying to find work . |
| 5 | And doing afterwards I did t er See the war came and they could n't get people . |
| 6 | The estate in Bradford where people told us they could not get credit because it had a reputation for housing defaulters ( see Appendix II , section 5 ) is an example of a physical credit ghetto , and depth-interview respondents in Finsbury ( London ) told us that their experience suggested that ‘ it has a bad name for credit ’ . |
| 7 | When they could not get money from the machine they beat her with sticks . |
| 8 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 9 | They complained that they could not get loans from LEDU and if they did , the money only came after long delays . |
| 10 | Butchers are , on the whole , an ingenious breed , and they could probably get hold of some if you pressed them . |
| 11 | A proclamation was issued in 1718 against " unlawful Clubs , Combinations , etc. " of wool combers and weavers : … which had illegally presumed to use a Common Seal , and to act as Bodies Corporate , by making and unlawfully conspiring to execute certain Bylaws or Orders , whereby they pretend to determine who had a right to the Trade , what and how many Apprentices and Journeymen each man should keep at once , together with the prices of all their Manufactures , and the manner and materials of which they should be wrought ; and that , when many of the said Conspiritors wanted work , because their Masters would not submit to such pretended Orders and unreasonable Demands , they fed them with Money , till they could again get employment , in order to oblige their masters to employ them for want of other hands . |
| 12 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 13 | Seeing that Hilary was n't taking it in , he added , ‘ Ryan and his partner thought they 'd easily get planning permission to build an estate on the land where your cottage stood . |
| 14 | It did n't actually exist , although they 'd probably get swarms of people prepared to join it just now if they tried . ’ |
| 15 | They 'd only get holes in them . |
| 16 | If Levitation dropped at least three songs from their set tonight they could have been dynamically interesting instead of sparsely tedious , but at least they would n't get invites to a House Of Love musical appreciation party . |
| 17 | General Publius announced to his soldiers that they would soon get proof of the truthfulness of his prophecies : a red wolf would come and eat him up . |
| 18 | They know the demand 's there , but they ca n't get landlords to take on their brew . |
| 19 | they ca n't get things cheap like bus passes and all that can they ? |
| 20 | They ca n't get sponsorship , because all the patrons think it 's chic to have an Argie on their side . ’ |
| 21 | They ca n't get hold of the medical referee . |
| 22 | Tell 'em they ca n't get hold of me . |
| 23 | ‘ Now that they ca n't get hold of cocaine they 'll just crash out . ’ |
| 24 | They ca n't get hold of batteries . |
| 25 | Erm it smothers the flames they ca n't get oxygen if there 's carbon dioxide around . |
| 26 | I do n't care if they 're hallucinating purple snakes and blue baboons , because the whole point of putting them on a boat is that they ca n't get off and swim home , and they ca n't get drugs on board , and they ca n't bribe you to take them to land , and that means they 'll have no damned choice but to get cured . ’ |
| 27 | yeah and the girls that serve in there , there 's three girls that serve in there , one works in the kitchen actually helping with the food , but the other two serve at the tables , they 've all got A levels but they ca n't get jobs |
| 28 | " Aye — but if there 's anything you want that they ca n't get you. ? " |
| 29 | ‘ They wo n't live where they ca n't get food and comfort . |
| 30 | IBM Corp joined with Phoenix Technologies Ltd to license the IBM personal computer BIOS : the program enables OEM customers to access IBM 's SurePath PC Standard specification for software compatibility interfaces , and through Phoenix , they will also get access to IBM 's Architecture Review Board to extend the SurePath PC standard specification for new technologies and features , the partners said . |