Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] to get " in BNC.
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1 | You know , just in case I need to get in touch . ’ |
2 | ‘ He was n't interested in numbers , he used strategic analysis as the basis for fundamental decisions , which was the biggest change I had to get used to . |
3 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
4 | After a slow first hour I started to get a few better fish , roach and skimmers . |
5 | And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between . |
6 | ‘ Hmm , maybe , ’ replied Rachel thoughtfully , then , changing the subject , she said , ‘ I think I 'll go to lunch now , then later this afternoon I want to get in a quick swim . ’ |
7 | After a few minutes I managed to get to my knees and use a pee-bottle , although after sweating so much , I ca n't imagine I needed to . |
8 | I visited the official information bureau in George Square armed with paper and the names of two groups I wanted to get the telephone numbers of . |
9 | ( The bank card I want to get hold of is the one issued by an Arab bank called Watani Express . |
10 | I love rap but in the future I want to get back to the funk . |
11 | other words I had to get on my bike . |
12 | Mummy I want to get erm |
13 | What is more they appear to have done it , whether in small discussion groups , or the concerts and parties she helped to get under way to celebrate the ending of the war , which also came in that year . |
14 | we had that photograph we decided to get lots and lots of copies of it well they still have n't come back . |
15 | But , erm , I mean all the fabric we went to get , they just cotton and erm |
16 | After a struggle with the wind we managed to get the meadow looking neat and tidy , tables were loaded on to a dumper and the villagers made for home with their booty . |
17 | It was a mouth he wanted to get to know . |
18 | What I ca n't now work out is how as a university student in England I managed to get tickets for Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at those first Easter Festivals . |
19 | That was gathering it in and if they were putting it into little into tramp coles I had to get up and tramp hay round and round the boss and er I did that . |
20 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
21 | After a week at home I began to get restless , as always in the company of my parents . |
22 | I did n't want to stay at home I wanted to get back into education and I did n't know how to the easiest way I suppose . |
23 | With a little juggling I managed to get each section of the garment starting with lilac , shading to blue then to a yellowish pink . |
24 | But do tell the Guard you want to get off there — and more important — do n't miss the last train back ! |
25 | When she was in her stockinged feet she moved to get out , but Marc was wedged in the doorway , unbuckling his boots . |
26 | Up there about six o'clock in the morning , ad we managed to get him out them . |
27 | For many weeks prior to the first of February we attempted to get a district council , a Labour council to agree that should apply in the case . |
28 | There we shot grouse , partridge , pheasant , occasional duck , snipe and woodcock and innumerable rabbits , more than earning whatever we shot by the amount of exercise we took to get it . |
29 | Now sometimes when archaeologists carry out the work they have to get in and out of a site really quickly . |
30 | With great skill he managed to get the overladen aircraft down on the desert , but at dawn they discovered German traffic on a nearby road . |