Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took , I took the cheque around on Monday , I had the , the last appointment on Friday and erm since I 've had the abscess , the tooth that 's got a crown on top , I think it 's been pushed up a little bit and my top teeth , the first two keeps catching was this |
| 2 | While the politicians were pre-occupied with the death penalty and corporal punishment in the late 1950s and early 1960s , the civil servants were paddling in the mainstream , adjusting to the implications of the increased volume of crime and trying to get a grip on what was to become a perennial problem for the next quarter century , the growth in the number of persons appearing before the courts charged with criminal offences . |
| 3 | Who 's got brown eyes but has got a mum or dad with blue eyes ? |
| 4 | If you have overseas students in the room below who cook curry at all hours , you really have only two choices : learn to enjoy curry or try to get a room change . |
| 5 | Ca n't you get this beading that 's got a pattern in it ? |
| 6 | Moved in with a boy that 's got a group . |
| 7 | Now , I was never a good getter-up but I do have the excuse that I often retire very late , particularly if I have a visitor in the afternoon and need to get a bit of washing or something done at night when it is possible to get on with it without interruptions . |
| 8 | Timothy Spain , defending , said Dakers had gone to Australia with his wife and two sons and had got a job there . |
| 9 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 10 | Can you not get that nice edging that 's got a bit of a pattern on it ? |
| 11 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 12 | Obviously there 's a need to be clear about legal and copyright terms but it 's certainly a service that 's got a lot of potential . |
| 13 | So is that Lee , jacket that 's got a hole in it ? |
| 14 | Emecheta insisted that although she was a girl she wanted an education and managed to get a scholarship to the Methodist Girls ' High School . |
| 15 | Beno was fined five pounds and told to get a job more suitable to his talents . |
| 16 | Well you 've got a magazine that 's got a lot of it in . |
| 17 | I decided to put all these experiences to positive use and managed to get a job with a charitable trust in London which works with women ex-prisoners . |
| 18 | Ana asked softly , and Maggie took a deep breath and tried to get a smile into her voice . |
| 19 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |
| 20 | Having heard of the firm of Boulton & Watt and their new engine , he decided to travel to Birmingham and try to get a job with the firm at their Soho Manufactory . |
| 21 | I shall look into the point with my right hon. Friends and endeavour to get a response to the hon. Lady . |
| 22 | Well tried to go across the road and get get a bit of shopping . |
| 23 | Mm , and they 're always going to say yes are n't they , unless they 're a reasonable human being and has got a bit of money they can use . |
| 24 | I was in New York and managed to get a Rickenbacker , a white one , absolutely gorgeous , in that ‘ 77 or ‘ 78 era . |
| 25 | They 'd split up and about a year later , they 'd formed The Box and wanted to get a record out , and that 's how it started in January ‘ 83 . |
| 26 | Nobody in this band holds their role above the old minstrels , or the court fools who used to offer diversion and try to get a smile . |
| 27 | He said he and his wife paid 30,000 roubles as bribes to get a bag with the grenades in it through security at the airport at the Siberian oil capital of Tyumen . |
| 28 | For a country that 's got a balance of payments problem , that seems a bit stupid . ’ |
| 29 | Erm so if you just remember try and remember the ones that have got a K. |
| 30 | They rehearsed at New Cross Stadium and had to get a suntan to look fit . |