Example sentences of "had got a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa had got a proper job at last , as though tired of waiting for the Revolution . |
| 2 | He turned away , and when he had got a safe distance , he began to whistle — a moist whistle that said he was n't really disturbed at all about Arty 's strange behaviour . |
| 3 | At one such meeting a heckler had got a great round of cheers from the assembled throng when he had told Clasper to get off his bloody soap-box and do a day 's work for a bloody change . |
| 4 | Over that time , things had got a bit more relaxed between them . |
| 5 | Out of the blue he had got a job as a mail boy in the MGM studios at thirty dollars a week , twice as much as he was paid in the toy store . |
| 6 | Because ‘ Big T ’ , Tom , had got a very bad record for sacking caddies , I was very apprehensive . |
| 7 | She had got a lover ! |
| 8 | Both the media and academia had generations who believed that they had got a production-based right to ‘ do things to people ’ . |
| 9 | It was bad , the old man had got a secondary in his lung . |
| 10 | I had got a ‘ Cavell ’ collar , and I needed it . |
| 11 | On our drizzly recce day another stunning ‘ climb-me ’ crackline had got a few hearts fluttering — a beautiful , curving hand crack as a main course , a direct finish for dessert and a few spaced rings for spice . |
| 12 | When Lewis said to come back with him and eat there Adam had got a kick on the ankle from Anne and another kick when he had n't replied . |
| 13 | He had got a Burmese staff together with quite a good Anglo-Burman as editor of a daily paper in English called The Liberator with a daily circulation of about five thousand . |
| 14 | Fair enough , perhaps , but your ex-wife had got a rich new boyfriend . |
| 15 | She told him she had got a hundred and fifty pounds , gave him a hundred , and heard him sigh a little ; such a different sigh from that sharp escape of breath of the woman in the shop . |
| 16 | He had wanted a male grandchild and he had got a male grandchild ; that should be enough for everybody … [ 18 ] The good news therefore was doubly welcome and caused as much delight at Elmhurst as dismay in Woburn Square , where the John Pontifexes were then living . |
| 17 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody … |
| 18 | The egotism of the patriarch in search of an heir is intensified ; and the repetitive , parallelistic form of the new clause ( " … might feel or might not feel … ) matches the parallelism in the following clause ( " he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson " ) in suggesting the grandfather 's own emphatic and headstrong style of speech . |
| 19 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 20 | Now it was a anti-tank weapon only you put a bottle in the tube , or a , a container that had got a i a liquid , I 've been trying to think what it is , can you tell me a liquid that bursts into fl flame when it 's exposed ? |
| 21 | He and Compeyson had got a lot of money out of a rich lady some years before , and Arthur kept dreaming of this lady . |
| 22 | He had got a Double First . |
| 23 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 24 | And if the old boy in the field had got a grudge against the bloke taking it off he used to shove it anywhere so he 'd have to pull it off , instead of following the the seam round , you see ? |
| 25 | And if anybody had got a cow and it calved , we used to go to him and say could we have the beastlings , please . |
| 26 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 27 | But the butchers shop was er a very well known shop , and er I remember very well we used to go into there er of course when things were re were really poor , you 'd go into the butchers shop in the middle of the week perhaps about Thursday and erm they used to sell they used to cook their own meats then of course you know , pressed beef and all that sort of thing and I remember this beautiful big white erm well it 'd be a ceramic dish affair on a stand , used to have a big piece of this pressed beef in it , cutting it off , and all the little bits used to fall round the side , well them come Thursday when only got a shilling in your pocket or your parents had got a couple of shillings left , you got to fetch two pennyworth of the bits of the pressed beef that had fallen round the pan , and that was a meal . |
| 28 | And there was the erm there was a top called the window breaker , and it was a special top that had got a long stem on it and a big round like a mushroom , it was like a mushroom almost . |
| 29 | Or if your mother had got a say she made you a meat and tater pie in a little dish , if you took this little dish with you , the lady used to er warm it up for you . |
| 30 | Me dad had got a decent job for them times , you know he , I think he got thirty bob a week which was a lot of money . |