Example sentences of "to get it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franchising , however , can give the new business a real head-start by providing both infrastructure and the back-up to get it moving and growing . |
| 2 | Aggie persevered with the kitten and when it was time to get it neutered she went along to the local vet , who informed her that the tomcat was in fact a ‘ she ’ . |
| 3 | In fact , if glass is prevented from cracking in tension , say by putting it into compression , then it is quite easy to get it to flow like a soft solid ; for instance , glass will behave like putty under the blunt point of a diamond indenter but the shear stresses required to cause flow are well above the normally observed fracture stresses — in common glasses at room temperature usually above 500,000 p.s.i . |
| 4 | The car has broken down and my two mates have taken it to a local garage to get it fixed . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I thought it 'd last another year , but wi ’ the rain this summer I shall have to get it fixed . |
| 6 | We 'll try to get it fixed so we can pick you up after you make delivery . ’ |
| 7 | If it 's I want to get it fixed again . |
| 8 | Alma was going to get hers fixed and for the price it was gon na cost to get it fixed she , cos there 's not anything really |
| 9 | He had never seen that happen before , and decided to get it checked when he finally returned to England . |
| 10 | For the prescription and to get it checked . |
| 11 | to get it checked again , what you not talking for Wendy ? |
| 12 | The Phone book accessory now has a telephone dialer installed but , despite being labelled ‘ UK Edition ’ it proved beyond our capabilities to get it to dial anything . |
| 13 | If you suffer any kind of discrimination or harassment , you should always aim to get it stopped at once , before it gets out of hand . |
| 14 | Why had he gone up the train himself to get it stopped if he had a walkie-talkie ? |
| 15 | It flares on , despite countless local ceasefires , occasional truces and the efforts of the world to get it stopped . |
| 16 | But what happens when one tries to get it stopped ? |
| 17 | Well he would would he he would design everything and then obviously it would be important for him to get it sent out . |
| 18 | I know , they 've got to get it made ! |
| 19 | Right it seems to me a lot of people are sitting down , there 's five weeks to go , you 've got to get it made in that time , assembled , so come on let's get some more cutting lists please . |
| 20 | He 'd had to pound it flat with his shoe before he 'd been able to get it to close again . |
| 21 | By the time we got here and started cooking something it would be rushing to get it eaten so . |
| 22 | Whatever one thinks about this draft — and most lawyers who have studied it reckon it to be reasonably good , though it grants the president extensive powers that could be abused — the real issue has been how to get it adopted as Russia 's new constitution . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've tried five organizations to get it to stop , including the Red Cross and the Salvation Army . |
| 24 | And how to get , how to get it to put it together . |
| 25 | And to emphasise the point that flies caused more death than ‘ all the wars there had ever been ’ , there was a serious campaign to get it renamed the ‘ typhoid fly ’ or even the ‘ filth fly ’ . |
| 26 | Happy May Day , and I 'm so sorry about the muddle with the draft I 've enquired at the head office of the Bank of Scotland , where I got it made out , and they seemed to think your Brno bank was being a bit dim , or perhaps even obstructionist , in telling you they could n't deal with it and that you 'd have to go to Prague to get it cashed . |
| 27 | I did n't pay to get it printed , you know . |
| 28 | Cos this is quite strong stuff I 'm gon na give you because that 's , once that 's been there for a week or two it 's hard to get it shifted . |
| 29 | However , the adventurers ' problem is not how to get it to do their bidding , but simply how to evade its fury when it finally escapes centuries of unwilling bondage . |
| 30 | You do n't need to pump up the revs to get it to move swiftly and smoothly up through the gears , and it is n't a noisy performer by any stretch of the imagination . |