Example sentences of "i [verb] to get [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hell , Nick , I tried to get her out of that place , but she did n't care . |
| 3 | I tried to get her to send me a memo with a pound sign on it the day after any night she had masturbated thinking about Lee , but she never did . |
| 4 | I tried to get her to give him the elbow but she would always say , ‘ but Eddie , he means well and he 's so kind ’ . |
| 5 | I tried to get them repaired , but was told that it would be much cheaper to buy replacements . |
| 6 | ‘ I tried to get him to come to London , ’ said Hardy , ‘ but he would n't . |
| 7 | Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there . |
| 8 | I tried to get him to return my smile , to confess that he had been pulling my leg ; but his brooding face was drained of humour . |
| 9 | I tried to get him back on to the subject . |
| 10 | eventually I went up and I tried to get him to go down to sleep again , and he was shutting his eyes and on his dummy , but he was |
| 11 | ‘ I tried to get you . |
| 12 | I tried to get you to drink , but … ’ |
| 13 | I tried to get it last night . |
| 14 | I expect to get them talked into fieldwork reports . |
| 15 | I promised to get them tickets and to let them know where and when to meet me on Sunday . |
| 16 | I want to get him up to Inspector as soon as possible . ’ |
| 17 | I want to get them enjoying mathematics . |
| 18 | I 've got these real bad spots of industrial lubricant on the trenchcoat and I want to get them out before they sink right in . ’ |
| 19 | I want to get you in three-quarter profile . ’ |
| 20 | I want to get you back to the house and into a warm bed . ’ |
| 21 | So , concentrate on this and I 'm , I 'm , must get round to , I 'm sorry my life has been in turmoil because of the , the dog situation , Jean and I have n't been up to the West End , but erm , I , I know which book I want , I want to get you , erm , and yes , I want you to do this , so and this actually it 's very good , very difficult , good , do a bit of technic . |
| 22 | I want to get you ready for bed early tonight . |
| 23 | What I wa , what I want to get I 've saved up an , an an an an earned it and |
| 24 | I want to get it down now , while there are still people who remember a time that was . |
| 25 | I want to get it on the market as soon as possible . ’ |
| 26 | I want to get it into brilliant condition first . |
| 27 | But I want to get it right here if I can . ’ |
| 28 | All of a sudden , I want to get it over with no matter if he 's black , white , pink or yellow . |
| 29 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 30 | Lucy says ’ I want to get it right . |