Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she said : ‘ So you see , I 'm making myself as unpleasant as I can — and I assure you I can ! — to make them want to get rid of me as soon as possible . ’ |
| 2 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 3 | X 's secretary , formerly for eight years secretary to Judge now of the European Court of Justice and formerly an advocate who lives just along , came with me to see get the Royal Bank/Univ Alumnus of the Year Award on Saturday . |
| 4 | Although one of them tried to get him to America . |
| 5 | Every sound jerks them awake : when the alarm goes everyone has to get up . |
| 6 | Everyone has got so used to safe , tidy music . |
| 7 | Erm , I intend to brief because A because everyone has got in front of them a very very thorough and I should n't think there are too many questions that people would want to ask . |
| 8 | I think has summed up quite well there I think , which , what everyone 's aims is , which is that we want an effective and efficient police force , which everyone has got confidence in to make sure that it protects citizens against crime in this country , and nothing could be , I do n't think anybody who is erm , civilised in this county or this country would want anything different . |
| 9 | I think everyone has got to shoulder the responsibility for defeat , not just Graham . |
| 10 | Well I 'll be , I 'm not going to go into it , that 's a close on itself , just like the first one that I , everyone has got a sequence |
| 11 | I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society . |
| 12 | One of my friends ( 'I' ) who just stays a couple of doors up from me has got a very different attitude towards sex . |
| 13 | That fellow behind me has got one too . |
| 14 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 15 | None of none of them has got in contact with me . |
| 16 | There are two professors in the English department where I work , and in the last twelve months , one of them has got very keen on structuralism . |
| 17 | ‘ Would you like me to try to get in touch with her ? ’ |
| 18 | So I 've always tried to eliminate it and Ibanez has worked with me to try to get as little flutter in that vibrato bar as possible by using certain springs or arrangements of springs . |
| 19 | ‘ Not everyone wants to get tight , you know . ’ |
| 20 | According to Nigel , ‘ everyone wants to get as much for himself and hang on to it : that 's the definition of conservatism ’ . |
| 21 | Everyone wants to get into his band . |
| 22 | Everyone wants to get away now do n't they ? |
| 23 | What do I want to get out of a job ? |
| 24 | Well , I 'll help you , I 'll be round , I 'll be here helping but I must I want to get on with some work . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'ad to get 'ome to me love , |
| 26 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 27 | I see I 've got quite a lot to learn about them . |
| 28 | The rich peasants made up another seven percent I have to check to see I 've got the figure 's right the middle peasants , twenty percent the poor peasants seventy percent . |
| 29 | But I mean , now you see erm I , I 've got to er go to since they closed Central , and I have n't got a car erm so I 'm not going to carry thing , I ca n't I 'm with , with arthritis in my back I ca n't , I ca n't carry really only a very small bag , so this was |
| 30 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |