Example sentences of "she [modal v] get [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Standing there , surveying the hall , so pleasant now ( though she knew that really she ought to get carpet foam and do over the carpet which after all had been folded up in the dust of the skip ) , she saw that Philip had mended the little cupboard under the stairs that the policeman had kicked in . |
| 3 | Audrey Spooner has been told she must get planning permission — or close down . |
| 4 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 5 | ‘ She 'll get pneumonia . |
| 6 | ‘ One of my Italian teacher 's refugees has been badgering me to find out whether she could get permission to live in England , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Juliet sat on her bed , wondering how she could get hold of the tissue-typing results — if they 'd come — without anyone being aware of who she was . |
| 8 | I told her Barry should have kept him in , and she said if I started criticizing him , she 'd get Don to the phone . ’ |
| 9 | She 'd get pocket money . |
| 10 | Oh er everything you know , meat and there was one shop down the bottom of the street here , my mother come here one morning , she used to get meat there . |
| 11 | She used to get meat cheap in the butchers . |
| 12 | She used to get hold of Jonathan |
| 13 | She used to get hold of Jonathan 's face |
| 14 | She would get hold of Mrs Hnatiuk after church and see if she knew anything about it . |
| 15 | She returned to her car , and a passing police patrol told her not to worry as she would get priority . |
| 16 | How can a poor mother keep the bottle ( waiting for the unknown diarrhoea episode ) when she can get cabbage or tomatoes with that money ? |
| 17 | But at least she can get food here |
| 18 | Kate 's social worker organised nursery places for her two small children while she did her A-levels , and she has subsequently gone to a university where she can get creche facilities . |