Example sentences of "[verb] get their " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think that was on the basis that we were insisting that everybody visited the local F E college or you know sort of Yorkshire , Scarborough , Harrogate got got their irregular updatings and S and Selby when whatever . |
| 2 | Who else has got their work needs putting away in a large drawer ? |
| 3 | Hands-on drivers will also enjoy getting their hands on the 944 S2 's progressive power-steering system . |
| 4 | IN THE past women rarely took jobs that involved getting their hands dirty , though in the war they kept the wheels of industry turning as their men went off to fight . |
| 5 | The response of Conservatives who followed colonial affairs in Britain was less than friendly to the NLM ; one article asserted : ‘ It is not by breakaway and territorial fragmentation that opponents of a government in power should seek to get their way but by fighting the government as a nation-wide party and finally throwing it out . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I suppose now that you 've dragged it out of Edna , I shall have to say that I remember a man and my mother in a yellow frock looking unusually pretty and being angry that they would n't take any notice of me when I tried to get their attention . |
| 7 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 8 | He pointed out that 45 players who had competed in the English Amateur Stroke-Play Championship for the Brabazon Trophy the two previous years had turned professional and tried to get their tournament players ' cards in the Algarve . |
| 9 | They 're for those upper-class twits who turn up halfway through seminars and who never bother to get their essays in on time . |
| 10 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 11 | Blind children at a college in Worcester ca n't wait to get their hands on the latest batch of adventure stories , translated into braille by computor . |
| 12 | THEY are the picture cards wrestling fans will be grappling to get their hands on — and they can be yours absolutely FREE . |
| 13 | Such men push the boundaries as far as they can to try to get their women to love them , dirt and all . |
| 14 | We bend over backwards to be fair , to get to terms with the pupils , to try to get their confidence . |
| 15 | Many of the towns in the middle are mixed , like Kupres , scene of some of the worst fighting this week , and both the Serbs and Croats want to get their hands on them . |
| 16 | With a strong emphasis on value-for-money , this opportunity to take the controls of a locomotive on Britain 's longest preserved railway should prove popular with those who really want to get their hands dirty . |
| 17 | I suppose in a way it 's a bit like the tail wagging the dog to a certain extent , whereby the er larger institutions rather want to get their two pence worth , er rather than let the Engineering Council take over . |
| 18 | For those parents who want to get their kids interested in computers from an early age , we 've found the perfect creativity and entertainment package . |
| 19 | It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back . |
| 20 | been turned over by warlords , they want to get their own back . |
| 21 | Right on half-time , United got their second . |
| 22 | If they 'd spent time doing that , once against the backs would have stood idly around until the forwards reckoned that they 'd got their act nicely in order . |
| 23 | Even when the dissatisfied chants of fans were clearly audible from this potato 's couch , Watt insisted that they 'd got their money 's worth from Eubank 's great display . |
| 24 | ‘ They couldna' get their tanks over the holes in the road . ’ |
| 25 | They will then need social services support to get their care costs funded by public money . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , then , ’ pointed out Rose reassuringly , ‘ you gave them five days ’ warning to get their poison ready , plus another seven days down here . ’ |
| 27 | 3 Letter from DINAMATION INTERNATIONAL CORP as discussed with you earlier today ( 5/6 ) , they are looking to get their name on end credits and on the inlay ( seems a bit excessive to me ! ? ) . |
| 28 | Those who play with fire , however archly , must expect to get their fingers burnt once in a while , and when ironic lyrics are allied to questionable public utterances and clearly provocative imagery , then it is reasonable to question the man 's motives and intentions . |
| 29 | They 've got see they 've got their tether . |
| 30 | That is the belief that teachers and children ‘ do n't like getting their hands dirty ’ . |