Example sentences of "had got [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children , particularly our own grandchildren I discovered er had got money in the building societies I mean we give them money for presents and throw it into a building society , and I said what 's happening about your , your tax ? |
| 2 | Again , in discussing punctuated equilibria ( much or the initial impact of which depended on the assertion that Darwin had got things wrong ) it is not until after several pages that we are told ‘ It is at this stage entertaining to realise ’ that Darwin ‘ anticipated the present debate ’ . |
| 3 | Maximilian , wanting to make sure he had got things right , repeated in German to Willoughby what Edward had just said , and Willoughby , who spoke German , nodded wanly . |
| 4 | In this particular respect Morse ( suggesting the likelihood of the Botley Road area ) had got things quite wrong , for it was at the Hertz ‘ Rent-a-Car ’ offices at the top of the Woodstock Road where Dixon had finally spotted the name he was looking for with all the excitement of a young angler just hooking a heavyweight pike . |
| 5 | Then McPherson had got rope from his car and the other man had tied it to a strap . |
| 6 | Jasper had complained , had got chilblains , but even he had put up with it ; yet that was one of the reasons why he had been pleased to move in to live with her mother 's warmth , after a cold winter . |
| 7 | ‘ I had got part way up the tree when the bear grabbed one of my shoes and pulled it off , ’ she recalled . |
| 8 | He told her things she had not known about him — good things , acts of generosity — it came out that it was he who had got Simon on to my pictures , the Douanier and the Gris ; he had practically given them to him . |
| 9 | Yes , casual work and when some of these casuals felt that they did n't want to stop there two days , they used to tell the authorities that they had got promise of work at , at Yarmouth and and could we go soon , you see . |
| 10 | You Every house had got lines across the the kitchen , you used to put hang the washing in the kitchen , to get it dry . |
| 11 | Once she had got Phoebe back where she wanted her , the radiographer manhandled Phoebe 's breasts , without interest , between two cold plates . |
| 12 | And er I can er no electricity had n't been put in that house because the one we moved into at , that had got electricity in it then . |
| 13 | She thought about the Josephs , apparently guilty of an especially heartless and greedy crime , and wondered how they had got drugs into the United States and whether they would ever do so again . |
| 14 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 15 | It was a bit late for that , since the press had got hold of the story anyway . |
| 16 | And Zoya said she had got hold of the toilet rolls , and would bring them for Anna . |
| 17 | Beneath that was a leaflet with the number of the switchboard ( 837 7324 ) and then eight pamphlets dealing with sexual hygiene , four of them coming from America , ones which Madame had got hold of before anyone else . |
| 18 | It was much more , he thought as he moved the boiling pan off the stove and on to the floor , trying to ignore the unholy smell of bleach that came off it as it sloshed against the sides of the vessel , that he had simply woken up one morning and realized , to use a phrase a friend had used about someone else 's wife , ‘ what he had got hold of ’ . |
| 19 | I remember there was a big ; story in one of the newspapers because a guy had got hold of a Telecaster — they made a big feature of it ! |
| 20 | Anselm had not yet visited Canterbury , but he had got hold of the one thing necessary for understanding the members of the old monastic community : they wanted recognition of their saints and understanding of their tradition . |
| 21 | I was n't sure I wanted to hear any more , but Oliver had got hold of my sleeve again . |
| 22 | At Notting Hill Gate , as they were leaving the car , they found their way impeded by a uniformed official of London Transport Underground that the woman who said the holidays were too long had got hold of and was complaining to . |
| 23 | From somewhere Fergal had got hold of a bottle of hooch , and the three eldest sat round the kitchen table getting their first taste of hard liquor , and smoking their way through a packet of Camel cigarettes , while Ellie and Patsy , locked into the room with them , were forced to watch . |
| 24 | It was as though something had got hold of her feet and was trying to pull them . |
| 25 | God knows how she had got hold of them , he thought . |
| 26 | I had got hold of the suitcase and with the other hand I unclasped her fingers from my hair . |
| 27 | How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles . |
| 28 | It looked just like the picture of Gullible or whoever he was , except the nomes had got hold of what the nomes in those days had never heard of , which was lots of electric wire . |
| 29 | This Ethiopian , he had come to Jerusalem , he was a , he was a a , go , a Godly man , he was seeking after the things of God , and he had come to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to worship God , and he was returning home , and he had got hold of the scroll that had Isaiah fifty three in it , and he was reading it , and Philip goes up to the man in the chariot , he said , do you understand what you 're reading ? |
| 30 | Now that Travis had got hold of the scent he would be like a bloodhound , and there was no knowing what Lori would inadvertently reveal . |