Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | For half an hour their talk was easy and pointless , and then Killion began to wonder whether Mary was going to stay in all night and he became uncomfortable , chatting pleasantly to someone he wanted to get rid of . |
| 2 | Ken 's own television series , International Cabaret had started making an impact , and he was a guest on shows like Juke Box Jury and Call My Bluff , on which he managed to get Joe to appear . |
| 3 | That will mean $3 billion-4 billion , only half of which he plans to get from further cost-cutting . |
| 4 | The distinction between overseas and defence policy in 1951–5 was for Churchill almost as clear as that between the Defence Committee , which , with the Chiefs of Staff , he used to prosecute the Second World War , and the Lord President 's Committee under Anderson and Attlee , which he allowed to get on with handling the Home Front . |
| 5 | Next year he ends the chase in which he tries to get the free-range hens . |
| 6 | It had wheels on the bottom and a handle inside , which he turned to get him from place to place . |
| 7 | When such Stakhanovite chastity over a period of months finally coaxed some forlorn gesture of affection from the girl , he told her he wanted to get to know her better . |
| 8 | He did n't want to get on worse terms with his mother , from whom he hoped to get a loan for his holiday in Greece , nor did he want the kind of thing that might have happened , his mother phoning hospitals or getting the police because they could have had an accident in Goblander . |
| 9 | ‘ So what is it he hopes to get out of it ? ’ |
| 10 | There was an art exhibition and because the school was spending money to print it he had to get involved . |
| 11 | Yeah , I do n't m , my dad will do that , my dad cooks you see , mum do n't cook at all , dad normally does , and when dad comes to mine he wants to get in my kitchen |
| 12 | That is what he wants to get across to the other person . |
| 13 | But they made him realize that he was getting across what he wanted to get across , and not a holy-sounding fog of words . |
| 14 | What really interested him , and what he tried to get across in lectures and in learned tomes , were the unities of plan , the homologies , to be found in the animal kingdom . |