Example sentences of "he get [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Maybe he caught some virus from a jungle or a desert somewhere , and it infected his brain and slowly ate it away and he got hallucinations and tremblings and gnashings of teeth till eventually he fell into a coma and was flown home .
2 Down in Tranent , which was somewhere near Edinburgh , and anything could have happened there — but old Donald had had this from Cameron himself , and he got newspapers by the carrier 's cart from Dunkeld — some miners had sworn not to serve , even if the King called on them , and the Volunteers had chased them into the cornfields and played havoc with their sabres …
3 But he got things done , he was a weighty man to have in the village , no doubt of that .
4 He got things going almost three years ago with a speech in Vladivostok on Russia 's Pacific policy .
5 He got bruises and sores all over him .
6 So he got Times Roman headlines in , very simple layout , and he did some caps bold , and then he said to me he had done all the headlines ragged and I said you just missed one thing — centre the heads .
7 I , I mean he got bags of possibility there .
8 On the cover of his ‘ Gunfighter Ballads ’ album , he donned cowboy gear ; for his ‘ Bitter Tears ( Songs Of The American Indian ) ’ LP he got feathers in his hair ; and for ‘ America ’ , he whipped out the flag .
9 With a combination of every kind of scientific equipment and a psychological ‘ mind over matter ’ approach , he got players fit again in a fraction of the time it took other trainers .
10 From his local library he got photocopies of the maps of his district for 1811 , 1843 and 1871 ; he 'd sit there and try to work out how the changes in the maps related to the view at night ; where the darkness of rookeries , courts and tenements had been replaced with the darkness of lampless parks and public gardens .
11 Dare n't lo stick my fingers in too much , he might bite me , cos he got teeth now Well they 're all in there scrambled up together Oh there 's Bernie and Jeff .
12 Despite the hour , he got replies immediately , and was transferred up through systems without delay .
13 He got dealers to track down an enthusiast in Essex who had got in ahead of him , and made the supergenerous offer for the supercar .
14 When the best man cleared his throat and announced that he was going to fix the puncture he had before leaving , all Moran 's children followed him out to the road and stood around as he got levers and patches and solution .
15 He got cars and stuff there — he fixin' all de cars in the whole gap . ’
16 He got results , and he knew how to keep the boys quiet .
17 If , on the other hand , your boss kept chasing you for ideas and generally putting the pressure on you until he got ideas that he considered satisfactory , then , providing you found the pressure ‘ nasty ’ and its cessation ‘ nice ’ , behaviour of putting forward ideas would also have been reinforced .
18 He got clients into his grip and pressed them to buy shares in huge quantities .
19 There was a , a very touching erm and I think rather important book erm published in about nineteen sixty-nine , called The School I 'd Like , which was edited by Edward Blisham , in which he got children to describe what they thought the ideal school was like .
20 There 's this butcher he made all his own and he got varieties in , you know , they got garlic in and herbs , everything , you know
21 cos Alan says he gets copies of that from the Biro Theatre
22 All smelly , and then he gets downs on you , and takes it out on you .
23 I like the way he gets bits of fingers in it , you know
24 Nothing was too expensive for Nigel , he gets loads of pocket money .
25 Because he gets coughs and splutters like .
26 Just as he gets laughs by letting a komodo dragon loose in a shopping mall , so he puts the whalelike Brando on ice skates to humorous effect .
27 I tell you what you wait until he gets teeth and , and he does bite you .
28 I showed Rudi what I wanted and now he gets requests for them from all over the world .
29 You think he 's an idiot , because he gets things wrong-the background , the politics , Walter , us .
30 ‘ I bet he 'll still get a spot for the summer if he gets things sorted out . ’
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