Example sentences of "get be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The letters we get are usually very friendly ; sometimes I even get birthday cards from listeners who have never met me , ’ said Mr Edmond Sehayek , director of the Arabic service , an Iraqi Jew who emigrated to Israel in 1963 . |
| 2 | Yet all we get are promises of some vague labelling scheme , which will do almost nothing ( by itself ) to reduce energy consumption . |
| 3 | A LOT OF the enquiries that we get are on the lines of ‘ will a Series III such and such from a LWB fit my SWB Series II ? ’ |
| 4 | I like the short story as a form , although most of the ideas I get are too big to fit into one . |
| 5 | All you get are hints , little teases … |
| 6 | We 've been without a Marshal nearly four months — not that I ca n't cope , but you know how it is when half the boys we get are on National Service and by the time you 've begun to knock them into shape they 're ready to leave . ’ |
| 7 | A If you put it in with another colour , all you get are ‘ streaks ’ which wo n't be much good as you are trying to change the colour . |
| 8 | Instead , what we get are sensational violent highlights linked by tepid speculation about the reasons why . |
| 9 | What we get are sensational violent highlights linked by tepid speculation about the reasons why |
| 10 | So , at first all you get are stars . ’ |
| 11 | But most of the problems that we get are not caused by deliberate cheating , they 're caused by genuine mistakes . |
| 12 | If those cards that you get are four aces , I 'll give you a thousand . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's Dana ; she promises to come for fittings and rehearsals but all I get are excuses . |
| 14 | What you usually get are the impressions of Western journalists . |
| 15 | ‘ It does n't matter to me whether the players I get are cup tied or not , ’ he insisted . |
| 16 | Lot of the calls we get are for like Jackie or Coldwell , they 're not based here |
| 17 | because I , the doctors I work for they have opted out , they are what they call it fund holding , they 've got their own budget , they 've got a , they 've got a practice manager and its run as a business and they look at every thing and any profits that they get are ploughed back into the G P's surgery and er , and they improve the surgery facilities for the patience , and it will be a better service , but I mean how can Labour come in and then say right you 're not doing that , how can they undo it |
| 18 | The only liquid you get are probably cough medicines and stuff like that and |
| 19 | And the only big things you get are dogs . |
| 20 | I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy . |
| 21 | There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on . |
| 22 | About all the exercise you get is pressing the button on your automatic gear change . |
| 23 | The nearest we get is Helen Thomas 's introduction to the 1932 edition of The South Country about the life he had chosen , oft en suffering ‘ despair and humiliation ’ , but always finding in the country ‘ the comfort he so passionately sought ’ . |
| 24 | No use trying to explain that all some people get is ten per cent of little or nothing . |
| 25 | But what we really get is we feel exposed . |
| 26 | The impression you get is that no individual is taking care of your particular conference . |
| 27 | The political semi-literacy implied is shown by the fact that the coverage they get is considerably more than that afforded to ‘ real ’ politics which is focused on the party political broadcasts preserved , like flies in amber , from earlier serious political coverage on radio and television . |
| 28 | We try to get on with people , to be friendly with them and all we get is trouble . |
| 29 | All I get is criticism . ’ |
| 30 | What we get is chemistry . |