Example sentences of "that [pron] [modal v] get [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Then you put a good big handle on it , so that everyone can get hold of it and pick it up .
2 Er er always played football or tennis and I I played all sports that I could get hold of .
3 I was so much convinced that I should get Roux 's result in all its features , that even in spite of the whole blastula , I now expected the next morning would reveal to me the half-organization of my subject once more ; the gut , I supposed , might come out quite on one side of it , as a half-tube , and the ring of cells might be a half one also .
4 I 've told Nenna time and again that she ought to get hold of some sort of reliable chap , an ex-Naval chippie would be the right sort , just to spend the odd day on board and put everything to rights .
5 Pulled between the conflicting impulses , I ought to resist the craving which dulls the awareness which moves me to abstain , because for me that is a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face the fact that you might get cancer ’ .
6 It was one of the only places that you could get banjo strings to put on the top , because in the old days you could n't get thin guitar strings .
7 I mean if , if you er er the whole experience of was that you could get rent reduction and interest rate reduction relatively peacefully so you would n't get disruption etcetera and you would n't get disruption and what , what you might come to recognize as a more , a more viable agricultural system .
8 Pull it down to something a bit more real that you can get hold of .
9 The advantage of paper money , however , is that you can get interest on it .
10 If somebody comes up with a suggestion for a change to a procedure , at this meeting , yes you should be looking at what that suggestion for change is but all of you round the table should be thinking , well does that change adversely effect other jobs in our areas and it should n't happen that you will get change after change after change .
11 Of course , all these symptoms can be part of the growing-up process , but if you are worried that your teenager might be taking drugs , or suspect drug-taking among their friends or school mates , it is very important for their own safety that you should get help .
12 Does he believe that one can get blood out of a stone ?
13 And we 've written back that we might get money from but can we use it for I E buying chairs and other things or for the general welfare .
14 Pierre Naville , for instance , enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world as ‘ automatic writing ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 99 ) .
15 Thus Naville enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world itself as ‘ automatic writing ’ .
16 The man regarded by Peter Swales , at Manchester City , as a little dull , introduced himself at Oakwell by saying : ‘ It may take a little time , but I can assure you that we will get promotion within three years . ’
17 I think one of the things that has to be addressed is not " who does this belong to ? " but " what is the basis for a common approach ? " so that we can get a common assessment policy so that we can get reassessment whenever it 's required , so that we can get packages of care devised that are appropriate to the needs of people and so on .
18 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 .
19 ‘ 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 !
22 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 ) .
23 The only role of the Labour party is to stir up any bad news that it can get hold of to give a bad image of Wales .
24 It had not materialised , sterner counsels had prevailed , but people had been consulted , people with files and knowledge as well as hatred , and Terence had gone to bed happy in the supposition that he would get revenge , and soon .
25 And he said he did n't know that , that he would get hold of Sen and ring me first thing , thing in the morning er , to tell me why Sen has n't paid .
26 The solicitor declared that he should get compensation for that , took his case on , and the man ended up with £250 .
27 For instance , if the defendant tells a taxi driver that he must get money from his flat and the driver agrees , does he make off ?
28 So what he had to do , the the the the customer in fact , is end up by climbing up the bannister to get to the top so that he could get hold of the lad that was at the top get hold of him by the feet and pull him upwards and over and er finally free the man at the bottom .
29 She warned him that the dye might come out and that he 'd get blood poisoning .
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