Example sentences of "they [modal v] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the mill was finished , a few of them might get work in it ( but the Flemyngs wanted girls for it because they would work more days ) . |
| 2 | Two — when the laird complained that Pennant described how rents drained the Highland economies without saying how they should be refurbished , Johnson said , in effect , that Pennant was obliged to report , not to cure ; ‘ If I tell that many of the Highlanders go bare-footed , I am not obliged to tell how they may get shoes . ’ |
| 3 | If they will give the State the part of their collections considered by experts to be an important part of Russia 's national heritage , they may get permission to export the remainder . |
| 4 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | with , they must get hold of a new windscreen before going home Oh look Just Good Friends . |
| 7 | Councillor Seamus Rogers of the Workers Party felt that the County Council should set up a sub-committee to look into the issue , while Councillor Brian Gallagher said they should get experts down to the area quickly to issue a ‘ statement that this will not be detrimental in the long term ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ They should get credit for the informal aspects of what they did , and their staff work was superb ’ , says , a senior associate with the congressional Office of Technology Assessment . |
| 9 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 10 | I think they should get planning consent and go ahead and develop Straiton . |
| 11 | There 's no way they 'll get US venture capital backing unless they move to the US . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The new council tax has a single occupancy discount so if there 's only one individual in the household they 'll get 25% off bills . |
| 14 | They 'll get £8,000 , but only if they first raise a similar amount . |
| 15 | Those wavering voters who were made nervous by Kinnock 's Boyo Valley exuberance are comforted by the dignified but determined way in which Mr Smith , the Edinburgh attorney par excellence , reassures them that , as it were , not only will they get the house , they 'll get custody of the children as well . |
| 16 | And they 'll get tea at in the stack yard or wherever they were . |
| 17 | You know what happens , d' ya know what happens then they 'll get people |
| 18 | They 'll get bust and erm |
| 19 | They might get work in , like construction work and the making of roads and that kind of thing … but how long would that last for and we 'd be left with what , like you do n't know what you would be left with in the end , ’ said Mary Catherine , who concluded ‘ I 'm not one to stop progress by any manner of means but I do n't think gold mining is progress . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They might get £2.3 a tonne , the Corby consortium says . |
| 22 | They reneged — prompting the Serbs to do so too — when Bill Clinton hinted they might get help from America . |
| 23 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had to pull himself up with help from other divers who pulled his umbilical , and anything else they could get hold of . |
| 27 | Well , er the reason was erm technique and science and they 'd , they all the firms or who was in business had to make locks their own way , you know what I mean and use the best facilities they could get hold of , but science and progress came into being and they cou they made what you could call locks erm repetition . |
| 28 | Any cake they could get hold of he advised them to eat . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |