Example sentences of "get he [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 2 | The efforts of Rusty Conway , Chief Public Relations Officer at U.V.I. , to minimize the publicity caused by this event get him entangled in the competing empires of television and the press . |
| 3 | Working outside gets him acclimatized to meeting other people before being released . |
| 4 | It turned out there was a military call-up in New Zealand , which he avoided by feigning epileptic fits ( a device he subsequently found described in The Confessions of Felix Krull , by Thomas Mann ) , but which had the beneficial effect in his case of getting him placed on national assistance , an invaluable windfall for a poet . |
| 5 | You 've caught his interest and got him involved by deeds more than words . |
| 6 | Almost got him disbarred from entry to the Navy . |
| 7 | I 'm sure it was Jan egging him on that got him expelled from the Rainbow Crche . |
| 8 | And the doctor went up to see the old man and got him put in a hospital and that , in a mental hospital , for six weeks , right . |
| 9 | Regretfully , he had to let it all pass ; he knew such behaviour would have created a bad impression with editors and got him laughed at — the thing he most feared . |
| 10 | It also got him known in America . |
| 11 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |
| 12 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 13 | I punished him in every way I could think of — I married him to Minnie , gave him children , got him bitten by a vampire so that he grew fangs and finally had him turned into a rat by a wicked witch , a great improvement . |
| 14 | It is amazing , with hindsight , to see the awakening of the theory of evolution dismissed by Gould as nothing more than a number of ‘ pleasing chats ’ ; but Gould was not a revolutionary and never claimed to be ; his en tire life and all of his works were designed to get him accepted by society and by science , not rejected by them . |
| 15 | Gemayel was also a good friend of Israel and the CIA was hoping to get him elected as president of Lebanon . |
| 16 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 17 | Shortly afterwards he left the licensed dealer which then tried unsuccessfully to get him sacked from the stockbroker he had persuaded to give him a job . |
| 18 | Another prisoner wrote to me recently , and I am now seeking to get him transferred to a prison nearer his home in Liverpool . |
| 19 | He publicly endorsed the death sentence on Salman Rushdie — an act which oddly failed to get him charged with the crime of incitement to murder — and wants to set up a Muslim parliament . |
| 20 | 108 ) , and Pleistoanax 's supporters waited twenty-six years to get him recalled in 420 , which they did by bribing the oracle in the best archaic tradition . |
| 21 | He jogged every morning with lead weights slung on his chest , back and thighs to get him used to the extra poundage of the armour . |
| 22 | Stroud MP Roger Knapman has taken up Martin 's case , and is pressing the Foreign Office to get him released on bail : |
| 23 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 24 | The British government said it would try to get him returned to Britain . |
| 25 | Let's get him moved into Theatre . ’ |
| 26 | If she really wanted she could get him sent to prison . |