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

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1 All in all , Rocastle has gotten a raw deal from Leeds .
2 Whoever owns that animal has got a strange sense of humour .
3 TIE Rack has got a great selection of ties and they 're great for Father 's Day presents , either as a little-extra or for those who ca n't afford to splash out .
4 Antony has got a temporary cap on one of his teeth but he 's had it about twice really .
5 The old man — General Midwinter — has got a private suite at seven floors below ground level .
6 I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society .
7 He has got a terrible gash on the top of his head and some bruising to his shoulder .
8 All areas in which the section has got a proven record of achievement .
9 But when you 've moved a five-bedroomed house which has got a grand piano in it as well , and you 're about twenty to thirty foot at the back and all you can see is furniture furniture furniture furniture furniture , you can imagine as you go on you 're thinking God will we ever get to this ?
10 But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then .
11 This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others .
12 There 's a , one of them little it 's probably meant to be that colour , one of them little clay coloured things has got a black end on it there but er
13 Unfortunately Banbury has got a bad reputation among boat users in the past and the council is doing little to dispel it .
14 Boards A , B , C , D have all started , although D has got a bad start by not passing close behind the start boat .
15 In the UK it is easy to form the impression that if you tried to get a closer look at something like this someone in a uniform would break both of your legs .
16 The coefficient of correlation value is good , considering that we tried to get a mathematical relationship from a physiological response .
17 By comparing objects in museums with those mentioned in inventories or seen in old drawings and photographs , we expect to get a fuller picture of domestic life in Scotland than we can find in any one source alone .
18 He bent to get a closer look at one drawing that had been fixed lower than the others , as if the teacher had somehow tried to segregate it off and pretend that it was n't part of the display .
19 Twins with both DR3 and DR4 antigens appear to get a double dose of susceptibility to diabetes .
20 My first impressions were an exciting mixture of scenes that seemed familiar but were so different in detail : I could n't wait to get a closer look at it all !
21 IF you want to get a bird's-eye view of London , try Canary Wharf .
22 Again , you 'll see a good example of that , where closed questions are good in a situation if you want to get a direct answer to somebody who tends to waffle , but again , if you 're asked closed questions and you want to give information , it is harder , it 's easier if you ask somebody an open question and on the film , John Cleese comes up with the starters to an open question , which are the Who , What , Which , Why , Where , When questions .
23 I want some Diet Coke , I want to get a massive thing of Diet Coke .
24 " Hazel , " said Fiver suddenly , " I want to get a clear idea of this Silverweed , but I dare n't go closer by myself .
25 From time to time , shares which one licensed dealer was pushing got a wee mention in the national press .
26 He 'd got a well-developed sense of self-protection , you know , always carried a gun in the glove-pocket of the car .
27 I 'd got a fumbling schoolboy with no more idea of what a girl needed than the man in the moon .
28 We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’
29 Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over .
30 Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that .
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