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 .
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