Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parties such as Plaid Cymru or the Green Party in Great Britain have no chance of controlling the government , although they may get members of parliament ( MPs ) elected and , in certain circumstances , have some say in making the government 's life easier or more difficult . |
| 2 | That 's the economy of the motor trade , apparently Henry Ford in America had an upset and er tried to beat the banks and er had loans and he was frightened that they would get control of his business and the we were told that at Dagenham . |
| 3 | Then lie suggested that they might get Arthur Pugh , the moderate leader of the steelworkers who was that year 's chairman of the TUC , to come down to Chequers for tea and an exploratory talk . |
| 4 | A regional manager spends more time , you know , okay , it 's a little bit longer , I deal with more lines than you , the pressure is far , you know , every branch manager I know , the guy 's got to believe that they 'll get staff from somewhere , it 's just as long as they get the order in and the availability right . |
| 5 | Therefore they would welcome bus lanes and feel that they could get things shifting a lot better . |
| 6 | ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu . |
| 7 | It promised about 25,000 people who have already booked that they will get refunds of up to £70 each . |
| 8 | Because the County Council realize now that they 're a little bit in advance of everybody and because the District Council feel that they can get designation by supporting this and not voting against it , the chances are that Wheatley is going to be totally deprived of a public enquiry , which practically every other site is guaranteed . |
| 9 | And the other nice thing is , because know who you are they will tend to accept your cheques , because they know perfectly well that they can get hold of you if they have to ! |
| 10 | Little red leaflets headed Herzlich Wilkommen ! are pressed into their cold hands ; the leaflets give them the deeply resistible news that they that they can get discounts on all burgers at the BurgerKing shops across West Berlin . |
| 11 | As soon as it 's over the phone rings ( they 've had a phone put in so that they can get bread and groceries delivered , and feel less cut off from doctors and fire services ) . |
| 12 | And they 'll get tea at in the stack yard or wherever they were . |
| 13 | Well they start work quite early and they can get cheques processed erm situations like that . |
| 14 | Lots of children visit with their school or other organisation and they can get talks and information on specific topics , also being able to handle some of the smaller animals . |
| 15 | Erm of which there , of course is erm impeccable logic er you might think well there are n't any coal mines in Didcot , which of course there are n't , but Didcot is actually a railway junction as I mentioned and in fact it 's on the main line from the midlands erm and they can get coal in from the Midlands very easily er it 's on the main line er also from South Wales and they 're getting co getting coal from , from er South Wales in the days when they built Didcot power station they still had coal m m mines in South Wales , so this was an obvious place to locate a large coalfired power station . |
| 16 | I bet some of the crew thought there 'd be wheels right into the Jungle and food trucks parked every few miles and they 'd get burgers and chips served by girls wearing flower garlands round their necks . |
| 17 | Some felt constrained by lack of alternative child care — as many as two-fifths said they would return to work sooner if they could get child care . |
| 18 | He had heard that I knew Robert W. Service and felt it would be a ‘ good idea ’ if they could get Service to fly up and formally open the new building . |
| 19 | The only way it would matter is that somebody breathes the information to , if they could get hold of a card , and get into an office , they could actually use the information to make a payment . |
| 20 | Mom would probably give her back teeth to make a picture with McQueen but nobody would cast her if they could get Faye Dunaway . |
| 21 | There are even now other issues on the pensions debate we have employers like Telecom using pension funds to fund redundancies we now even have the government looking to see if they can get hold of pension fund money in British Rail and in the Coal Board to see if they can also fund job losses . |
| 22 | What I 'm talking about is situations where women go into jobs when they leave school if they can get jobs . |
| 23 | Provided they can get hold of the Brasso . |
| 24 | ‘ We thought the jackets were loaned and that GT Sports were doing it because they could get publicity . |
| 25 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |