Example sentences of "they get a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This allows the archers to be deployed in two ranks on the slopes where all of them get a chance to fire , not just the front rank . |
| 2 | right now how many pizzas are we going to need so they get a quarter , how many makes a quarter ? |
| 3 | Neutralizing involves giving the employee work where their weaknesses can not cause problems and where they get a chance to use whatever strengths they possess . |
| 4 | This is regarded as a Good Thing by Orcs who are universally content with their lot , being ultimately happy to meet their end in battle so long as they get a chance of a good fight . |
| 5 | Marauding birds such as herring gulls will grab and swallow a chick if they get a chance . |
| 6 | The poor have standards , dignity , taste , conviction : they live honestly , full of hate , shitting in the houses of the rich if they get a chance to break and enter . |
| 7 | In return for their hard work they get a chance to fulfil a lifetime ambition . |
| 8 | successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it |
| 9 | After all , trades councils are the local versions of the T U C , and so it would seem appropriate that they get a say at the T U C Congress itself . |
| 10 | Over and above that , obviously this is where the advantage to the policy holder comes in because obviously if they get a gearbox problem that 's going to cost , say , a hundred and eighty pounds in six months time , they 're not going to be able to go back to the dealer and say look I want you to put this right for me , because obviously it is outside the statutory guarantee . |
| 11 | Anyway they get a go now . |
| 12 | ‘ If they get a head wind they barely move at all . ’ |
| 13 | I mean unless they get a temp from an agency they gon na want somebody are n't they ? |
| 14 | Erlich , rookie Fed , had demanded of the local police that they get a man up there , up to the nests , that they get each of the nests down , that they sift each of the nests on the very long chance that the storks had lifted a fibre of torn clothing to bind a nest wall . |
| 15 | ‘ They think they just point the camera and they get a work of art . |
| 16 | The five hundred locals who live there are better off than any of us , because they get a percentage of the profits . ’ |
| 17 | If the other two teams can pick up on a piece of information they missed out , they get a mark and you lose one of your ten . |
| 18 | If they get into a sweat and stop still too long the sweat will stop suddenly and they get a chill or a headache . |
| 19 | I 'll be interested to see what SCUM do if they get a couple of injuries to English players . |
| 20 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 21 | Er , they reckon they grow two to three foot a year they 're the fast grow ones , once they get a hold , they start growing and they shoot up each week and when they start shooting up , that 's when , you 've got to keep them watered , and you 've got to feed them with that plant stuff do you know what I mean ? |
| 22 | They get a hit and … gone . |
| 23 | So difficult are they , in fact , that the debate usually begins and ends at the level of aphorism , with lots of commentators wringing their hands and saying that something must be done , while doctors , administrators , and others scramble to make sure that they get a bit of the action . |
| 24 | Not so much now 'cos they get a bit scared — but used to quite a bit . |
| 25 | If they get a bit tetchy and and they 're crying a lot maybe cos they 're teething you could just massage a little bit on their temples . |
| 26 | Erm then they get a bit awkward . |
| 27 | Lucy : ( At school ) there used to be a group of white girls and a group of black girls , right and y'know , they start … once they 're on their own they 're alright but once they 're with their people they get a bit lippy so they start callin' me black bastard — ‘ Look at you you mother fucker ’ — an' all that fing . |
| 28 | I know that 's difficult to provide erm , and the money 's got to be found for that , but it , it 's a mixed blessing putting elderly people into , a lot are put into our homes , which I agree are very good the majority of them , they 're very nice , but the people who 're put into them , they give up their own homes , and then they get a bit better six months later , and they say , ooh , I just want to go back to my home now . |
| 29 | And quite honestly they get a bit edgy if you stay overstay your mark so . |
| 30 | Yeah bring bring it forward if you delay it they get a bit edgy . |