Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that he 'd got a form and he was fetching it back in this afternoon and they was handing it over this afternoon . |
| 2 | ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men . |
| 3 | The boy told him that he had got a place in a hostel , but that he would be lucky to get into a place like that if it was his first night . |
| 4 | So that he had to get a job elsewhere — somewhere much better , ’ said Pickerage . |
| 5 | ‘ During our negotiations , he said that he wanted to get a message across to the media . |
| 6 | So I wrote him a letter , told him I 'm here , I ca n't get a job , so he managed to get a job for me . |
| 7 | And he had got a pile of something put on the ground from the er , at your park . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Erm he , I think what he really must have had was er a sort of mild form of polio when he was young and he 'd got a shoulder , not completely paralysed but it was partially paralysed . |
| 11 | And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto |
| 12 | And he 'd got a boy who did stutter and he always used to go to granddad before er he when he came to school , before lessons and he 'd give him this pebble and he 'd say , now you can put it in your pocket . |
| 13 | today and he 'd got a cap on and he 'd got long blond hair had n't he ? |
| 14 | They just assumed that , being black , he had n't got any — and he 'd got a degree . |
| 15 | And there was a , two friends of theirs who were courting and he 'd got a pimple on the end of his nose . |
| 16 | Steenie was putting the show on , and he 'd got a thing going with this bint Veronica . |
| 17 | And he 'd got a car |
| 18 | and he managed to get a ticket for a week |
| 19 | Most people got to hear about it afterwards and he did get a bit of stick . |
| 20 | If he 'd got a down on you , he could get back at you any time he wanted . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If he tried to get a laugh and it was n't successful , I could see him bristle , ’ she said . |
| 22 | However , everyone else advised him to do it and it was probably the most catalystic thing he could have done at that period , although I had the feeling even if he did get a hit , it was something he could n't follow up because I knew the style of his writing . |
| 23 | He usually travels well , but he did get a bit upset on the way back from the World Cup final in Gothenburg when we had a very rough crossing . |
| 24 | He did n't help in anyway but he did get a lot |
| 25 | We were obviously impressed because he 'd got a record released . |
| 26 | Well when when we were there before he 'd got a lot there ! |
| 27 | When he 'd got a shot he liked , we 'd go to bed . |
| 28 | Huxley , the exponent of laboratory physiology , won a great victory over Owen when he contrived to get a statue of Darwin placed on the main staircase of the Natural History Museum ; but justice has been done with the passage of time , and Owen 's statue is now in pride of place in his building . |
| 29 | Bullets bounced off the rock with alarming frequency as he tried to get a look at the situation . |
| 30 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |