Example sentences of "[verb] get a " in BNC.

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1 So La Laura now thinks got a sore stomach because she 's hungry .
2 The Open Software Foundation 's Research Institute has gotten a three-year multi-million dollar research contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) and the Air Force Material Command to develop a distributed operating system for high-performance computing .
3 All in all , Rocastle has gotten a raw deal from Leeds .
4 I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ .
5 From the start of this modest but compelling chiller , you sense that the family , moving to suburban Indiana in 1958 , has got a skewed and sinister undertow .
6 It 's nice that Jesus has got a birthday and that , just like a normal person .
7 The Captain stops writing and listens more intently to the speaker on the wall — the PIN net has got a lot busier all of a sudden .
8 The architect Richard MacCormac said , ‘ I believe there is a danger that classicism is being used as a cure-all architectural pill , when architecture has got a lot more to it than just putting in columns and capitals .
9 She has got a secret .
10 Still , I said to myself , so she has got a husband after all , because I was beginning to put two and two together and ask myself a few questions .
11 It has got a start and a finish and you known what is going on . ’
12 ‘ She 's no dumb blonde … she has got a skin of steel . ’
13 ‘ She 's no dumb blonde , she has got a skin of steel and by the way she conducts herself you can tell she has got things in proportion too .
14 ‘ It 's fine in the Ryder Cup , although that has got a little bit out of hand when nerves are stretched like the note of a piano .
15 It was a very special goal , and he has got a special talent . ’
16 He has got a tan from his Christmas holiday .
17 It has got a water bottle , a milometer , a speedometer , a yellow saddle , and very thin racing wheels .
18 His bedroom is massive and he has got a stereo , a colour television , a tapedeck , a Scalextric track , an electric guitar and amplifier .
19 I reckon he has got a law case on his hands that he thinks he might lose .
20 ‘ Mark 's ma has got a livery stable — she 's a real leathery Jane .
21 Boards A , B , C , D have all started , although D has got a bad start by not passing close behind the start boat .
22 Thurso has got a swimming pool and a wine bar .
23 ‘ And funnier still that Chignell has got a job in Plymouth !
24 One of my friends ( 'I' ) who just stays a couple of doors up from me has got a very different attitude towards sex .
25 Margaret Beckett , the shadow chief secretary to the treasury , has got a suspiciously high forehead and she 's a girlie !
26 Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them .
27 As I mentioned in the chapter on ‘ Teachers ’ , the Bible has got a lot of things to say about how we get on with other people .
28 Slash has got a blend of really gritty aggression with the more traditional kind of rock'n'roll stuff .
29 My main one has got a really thin neck , while the other has a huge neck and sounds either dead bassy or just disgusting .
30 Both live and in the studio , Alex will normally rely on his 1961 Fender Jazzmaster , ‘ which has got a really nice neck on it .
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