Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The people of Bromborough have got more than their fair share of industry on their doorsteps . |
| 2 | That will not do , and when , to make matters considerably worse , bubonic plague breaks out in the town , the people of Ashdod decide to get rid of the ark . |
| 3 | As Christmas approached , the excitement of preparation began to get through to her . |
| 4 | Non-fundholders wait ten months for some outpatient appointments , fundholders can bring the consultant to the surgery to see the patient within a couple of weeks ; this of course helps to get a quicker place on the operation waiting list . |
| 5 | We also of course have got sophisticated , I hope , complaint systems now and those are another important way and we 're always trying to improve our quality control and quality assurance mechanisms . |
| 6 | The package of notes had got caught in the waist-band of her jeans , and she stood fumbling . |
| 7 | It had been like kicking the hell out of a two-hole outhouse ; a lot of shit had gotten out and the stink rode free on the four winds . |
| 8 | This hands-on experience helped Lorne talk his way into a production assistant 's job at the BBC in London , where he was exposed to the broader spectrum of skills required to get a film on the air . |
| 9 | In we were fortunate in that the time of the introduction of L M S coincided with the all too brief period when this group was in control of the Council and as the window of opportunity opened to get off to a flying start |
| 10 | But I would n't wish anybody er to get the idea that we as a union wish to take away what really is the parliamentary privilege that members of parliament have got to have to look after their own constituencies in addition to being sponsored members of parliament . |
| 11 | Mary of Guise had got what she wanted , in terms of policy . |
| 12 | We used to break all kind of speed limits getting out of the door |
| 13 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 14 | Because any If okay the odd couple of neutrons did get through , they 'd split up an atom , three more neutrons come out and they 're immediately absorbed by the control rods . |
| 15 | She liked to wonder how a particular piece of jetsam had got there . |
| 16 | But the gypsies and geourgos but er a lot of gypsies have got one geourgo parent but , they would reckon that there must be some sort of descent , er er erm that , where they 're aware of to qua , to qualify as a gypsy . |
| 17 | ‘ The first thing passengers do when they are served is have a look at what their neighbour has got — their piece of chicken has got to be the same size , ’ says Karen . |
| 18 | But then , as far as I am concerned , the Archbishop is the nearest thing the Church of England has got to a superstar . |
| 19 | They had travelled to Berlin merely in order to join the queue of refugees trying to get home . |
| 20 | Geoffrey Hoskins are already reports of erm an enormous number of refugees trying to get out of parts of the er Soviet Union , in Poland I think in one area they 've closed the borders having let through twenty seven thousand refugees in one day , there are now huge tailbacks of traffic at the border post . |
| 21 | From the above brief outline of work attempting to get to grips with the character of aesthetic response it can be seen that it is both complex and ‘ multi-layered ’ , a term used by Greger ( 1972 ) to describe how multiple meanings come to attain a feeling of significance by being grasped at the threshold of consciousness . |
| 22 | The message behind the report is that the majority of parents has got it all wrong . |
| 23 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 24 | erm The warden of Merton had to get out of Oxford quick when the king arrived , because , and spent the erm war in London , name was Nathaniel Brent , and he was quite an important man in the organisation of the Parliamentary war effort , and Lincoln had rather mixed loyalties , too . |
| 25 | The Federation of Small Businesses , said : ‘ The Chancellor 's green shoots of recovery have got frostbite . |
| 26 | I do not think that the House of Commons wants to get into an argument about when an inspection is not an inspection . |
| 27 | Can you imagine taking all those thousands of years trying to get your people together and then somebody saying well I 'm gon na destroy your capital city and rebuild it . |
| 28 | Mr Takeshita , who subsequently wangled a meeting with Mr Bush to chat about the SII talks , has spent the past couple of weeks trying to get back into the limelight . |
| 29 | This type of badgering has got to stop for everyone 's good . |
| 30 | Centre manager Carl Bendelow said visitors heard an outline of the national growth in teleworking in response to a growing number of firms needing to get away from expensive city offices . |