Example sentences of "would [adv] get the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was all very strange to her , but she 'd soon get the hang of it .
2 Dot wished she knew what it felt like to be brave , and wondered if she 'd ever get the chance to find out .
3 Linex liked the way I was thinking , but he said that you 'd never get the punters in and out quickly enough .
4 He 'd never get the message .
5 He was a bit suspicious I must admit when I bought him those Janet Reger nighties but I knew he 'd never get the chance to wear them .
6 I did think of paying them a non-means-tested benefit in exchange for abstention , but I 'm sure I 'd never get the figures past Margaret Beckett .
7 You know , they 'd never get the type of calls we get ’ ( FN 1/3/87 , p. 2 ) .
8 If it did I 'd never get the jade back — and , one way or another , I mean to have it ! ’
9 If scientists had to think always about what might happen politically or socially because of their work , they 'd never get the work done .
10 I thought he 'd never get the band off the road .
11 Now if she re-dialled she would only get the apartment ringing incessantly ; the call before she had lost and she had n't a clue where its destination was .
12 the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept
13 The US Congress has dreamed up the Mary Whitehouse chip , a circuit that the television industry would be required to build into television sets , enabling parents to block out programmes coded for violent content : according to Associated Press , the chip was thought up by Representative Edward Markey , a Democrat from Massachusetts and chairman of the House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications — the parent could just push the v-block button on the remote control and keep violent programming out of the home , ’ he said reckoning that if only 10% or 15% of all homes started blocking programmes , broadcasters and advertisers would soon get the message .
14 It took me about three seconds to realize that no human agency would ever get the ball out that way and without thinking I withdrew my hands , braced both thumbs behind the angle of the lower jaw and pushed .
15 Repeating numbers would quickly get the artistes in trim and once the show was on they would start rehearsing for the main summer production and perform at the same time .
16 If the U K could be sure that McDonnell-Douglas would stay in , and provide effective competition to Boeing , it might be worth allowing Airbus to fold : European consumers would still get the benefit of cheaper planes .
17 And , then that famous man who died just recently , Finniston was asked to er , present a report to the government about ten years ago , in which he was going to knock the heads together again and try to get some kind of er organisation which would actually get the institutions to cooperate and coordinate their activities and that was the beginning of the Engineering Council .
18 He said : ‘ I always said we would never get the title if it went to points and that 's exactly how it turned out .
19 ‘ Normally we would never get the pitches [ sites ] and the deals we are getting , ’ he says .
20 I really could n't I would never get the price I 'd want for the alphabet .
21 But I I really could n't I would never get the price I would want for the alphabet .
22 They would never get the Act repealed .
23 In any case she would never get the opportunity .
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