Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] get you " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now listen to what we 're going to do now , we 're going to mummy 'll get you some dinner in a minute , are you hungry ? |
| 2 | Will you stay here and Mummy 'll get you a sweater to put on . |
| 3 | Well read this one then Mummy will get you some breakfast . |
| 4 | The basic guidelines will get you started though . |
| 5 | Thailand 's a lot cheaper — £1.58 will get you into a Bangkok nightspot . |
| 6 | The stormproof Night Rider bike light will get you seen . |
| 7 | No they 're not no come on we 'll have the lid off that thank you , you can go down , mummy can get you some clothes to wear oh |
| 8 | There , Nick , your Mum 'll get you a nice little kitten . ’ |
| 9 | So you might find that er a and in , in some ways it 's rather interesting , because your S and T skills might get you the job . |
| 10 | I get the odd funny look to this day , from children , youths and adults , and I know some mothers tell their children to behave or ‘ Frank 'll get you , ’ but it does n't bother me . |
| 11 | ‘ I wondered , ’ said the voice of the headmaster , piping insecurely as he insinuated himself round the door , ‘ if Mrs Crumwallis could get you something . |
| 12 | Two years ago , Master Solper could get you anything ; a piece of cloth from the napkins used at the Last Supper , a hair from the beard of St Joseph , part of a toy once used by the Baby Christ . |
| 13 | For the uninitiated , this means that from 1500 feet will get you around four to five miles to play with depending on wind . |
| 14 | ‘ Flattery will get you nowhere , ’ she managed to quip , her anger diffusing into the familiar shadows of response . |
| 15 | ‘ And flattery will get you anywhere tonight , ’ she retorted as sexily as she could . |
| 16 | Flattery will get you everywhere . |
| 17 | Anxiety will get you nowhere , wrote Harsnet . |
| 18 | Packages are available to many other European cities : Amsterdam , Dublin and Prague are on Time Off 's list , and Thomson can get you to Barcelona , Berlin , Rome and Vienna among others . |
| 19 | The spirit of 1992 and European unity could get you on a freebie to the Himalayas . |
| 20 | If it 's a simple puncture , your tubeless repair kit may get you back on the road again , but if it 's a major rip , or any other sort of fault , the machine 's likely to end up on a trailer . |
| 21 | Go on then , Daddy 'll get you some . |
| 22 | At the time half the city 's school boards were distracted by criminal investigations — into how a grand piano went home with a board member , how their election hand-outs came to be printed by school members on school presses , why others dealt drugs and what exactly was the price of a promotion ( $10,000 could get you a deputy principalship in the Bronx ) . |
| 23 | My grandfather taught me necessary skills : how to tip my tea into my saucer and blow waves across it until it was cool enough to drink ; how to cut an orange in half crossways and pack a sugar lump into each half and then suck out orange-juice and sugar together ; how to walk along the crazy-paving garden path without stepping On any of the cracks or a tiger would get you ; how to butter the loaf and then clutch it to your chest and then shave off paper-thin slices ; what saint to pray to when you woke up at night and saw the devil moving behind the curtains . |
| 24 | Timidity in pop will get you nowhere , but it makes for great listening . |
| 25 | I bet he could n't get in the smaller ball than Fred can get you |
| 26 | That quip could get you recommended to the witless corps , brother , ’ the speaker put in , ‘ Oh , I was only pulling her leg . |
| 27 | But this is hardly surprising ; such things could get you into trouble ( his ‘ promoters ’ , the Verri brothers , were already in trouble ) . |
| 28 | It 's my view that no amount of learning to use influential and assertive behaviour will get you status if you do n't believe that you 're worthy of it . |
| 29 | Avoid the aliens , a super long jump will get you over the other two . |
| 30 | B L X I can get you one for free ? |