Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] get [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a village near Amiens , I found a shop where you can still get tea , and enough cakes to make a schoolboy sick for a week . |
| 2 | Some younger son from among Leicester 's tenants , placed by a dutiful father where he could readily get advancement . |
| 3 | I might be able to pick up Radio 5 when conditions are good cos I can usually get Radio 2 and even RTE ( Irish station ) late in the evening . |
| 4 | I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache . |
| 5 | On page 13 MARY BAILEY already has the cichlids — but if she could just get hold of a six foot tank … |
| 6 | If you could just get hold of say , the rainbow |
| 7 | Equally worrying is the fact that deaf people are effectively disenfranchised because they can neither get access to nor take part in the political debate . |
| 8 | A proclamation was issued in 1718 against " unlawful Clubs , Combinations , etc. " of wool combers and weavers : … which had illegally presumed to use a Common Seal , and to act as Bodies Corporate , by making and unlawfully conspiring to execute certain Bylaws or Orders , whereby they pretend to determine who had a right to the Trade , what and how many Apprentices and Journeymen each man should keep at once , together with the prices of all their Manufactures , and the manner and materials of which they should be wrought ; and that , when many of the said Conspiritors wanted work , because their Masters would not submit to such pretended Orders and unreasonable Demands , they fed them with Money , till they could again get employment , in order to oblige their masters to employ them for want of other hands . |