Example sentences of "we [modal v] get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've spent two years meeting , talking , going to other meetings , we should get involved in doing something practical . |
| 2 | In nineteen sixty one , prior to the crisis , the Americans had to face the rather humiliating settlement in Laos by which they accepted a communist erm er government , or at least a government which had communist members , erm Kennedy wanted to intervene in Laos but again was restrained by his British ally , MacMillan would n't in fact accept er that we should get involved in a ground war in Indo-China . |
| 3 | In nineteen sixty one , prior to the crisis , the Americans had to face the rather humiliating settlement in Laos by which they accepted a communist erm er government , or at least a government which had communist members , erm Kennedy wanted to intervene in Laos but again was restrained by his British ally , MacMillan would n't in fact accept er that we should get involved in a ground war in Indo-China . |
| 4 | If they are clearly being offered commercially — without any restricting statement — then we should get commercial quality . |
| 5 | There were these huge plants in disintegrating tubs , so I said : ‘ We must get concrete blocks and put them round the tubs , so they can just fall apart inside ’ . ’ |
| 6 | We must get first-class information about what these damned Twenty-fourthers have planned . |
| 7 | Every parent who withdraws his boy is going to increase our difficulties , and make it less likely we 'll get other boys to take their places . |
| 8 | We 'll get hot . |
| 9 | We 'll get straight some time |
| 10 | Yeah , well , per perhaps we 'll get Good King Wenceslas looked out . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose we 'll get used to everything , in time , , Lucinda shrugged . |
| 12 | Er that 's a I think what we 'll do is we 'll get used to it . |
| 13 | I think it 's a nice idea but I do n't , I think once we 've settled down we 'll get used to it . |
| 14 | We 'll get drunk , or lonely , or — likeliest of all — plain damn hopeful , and there are the words gone , used up , grubbied . |
| 15 | For example , is the utterance ‘ It 's raining and we 'll get wet ’ an example of reporting and recognising related aspects of experience , or is it an example of recognising causal relationships under logical reasoning ? |
| 16 | The mood in the Bush camp yesterday swung from ‘ maybe we 'll get lucky ’ to resignation , but Mr Bush put on a brave face . |
| 17 | We 'll get cold ! |
| 18 | I 'll probably have crisps and we go and bulk buy the crisps we 'll get big packs |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll get engaged . ’ |
| 20 | And I am if at five minutes to five , or five minutes to leaving off time whatever it was and you would n't say well we 'll get ready to go home you had to pick a half a link up make it into a staple and throw it in the box . |
| 21 | We might get paid release we might not erm and I think we 're gon na have to leave it and make some further enquiries and get back . |
| 22 | We might get killed deid . ’ |
| 23 | We could get low to inspect and saw the plight they were in . |
| 24 | lean burn we could get close |
| 25 | We could get lost in those woods at night , paint or no paint . |
| 26 | The most pleasant surprise with materials was finding we could get ready-mixed concrete delivered and barrowed straight into the footings and foundations . |
| 27 | We could get certain information recorded from the ticket machines , of just how many of different types of tickets were issued because what we 'd , they had double readings . |
| 28 | We could get caught , we could get killed , we could have to disappear . ’ |
| 29 | The first thing we discovered was that we could get high strength from almost anything from Epsom salts to sapphire . |
| 30 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |