Example sentences of "of [n mass] [verb] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | The director of immigration — who had already received $150 a head for the landing permits which had not been honoured — suggested to the shipping line a fee of $250,000 to help get decree number 937 rescinded . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of people like to get worked because it knocks the fear out of them . |
| 3 | For this reason , if you are lucky enough to get the chance to become a PA , because of the number of people trying to get started , you 'll find pay is n't brilliant to begin with . |
| 4 | Development agencies are well placed to make this point with the authority of people trying to get a job done . |
| 5 | Besides everyone 's too busy dealing with the latest applications from thousands of people hoping to get a degree . |
| 6 | See football I 'm sick of people having to get the football ! |
| 7 | ‘ I put all the ingredients together and put them on individual plates , but lots of people helped get the lobster out of their shells , and Alfred made the mayonnaise . |
| 8 | Lots of people have got faxes . |
| 9 | But then I found out lots of people have got pregnant , they just had abortions . |
| 10 | Erm , a lot of people have got , maybe , five thou three thousand . |
| 11 | We see an awful lot of people have got a tremendous investment in traditional character cell terminals and by a character cell terminal I mean a dumb terminal of twenty four lines of eighty characters . |
| 12 | Er , I mean lots of people have got nothing to do and are unlikely to be employed during that time . |
| 13 | But if there 're a lot of people have got evenings you know |
| 14 | A number of people have got shot dead on that same particular road in recent weeks . |
| 15 | Oh , now lots of people have got their hands up |
| 16 | You touched on church weddings , now lots and lots of people do get married in church , although many of them are n't er are n't necessarily church-goers , now Chrissie , can I , can I pick on you ? |
| 17 | That sort of thing and the number of people waiting to get on a course . |
| 18 | ‘ I really believe that the design of p.o.s. has got much more professional in the past few years , ’ he said . |