Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] 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 | But a man who makes his living playing black music suddenly sporting the flag waved on every Nazi march AND toying with skin imagery ( and like or not , lads , the crop and boots HAVE been adopted by Nazis in the USA and Europe ) AND writing ambiguous lyrics about an issue which brooks no ambiguity AND making idiotic remarks about blacks and black music in interviews AND hankering ( in a curiously middle aged manner à la Gary Numan ) after a nice , homogenous ‘ England ’ that never actually existed AND refusing to defend or explain himself — ALL that means , at the very least , that he 's got a case to answer , surely ? |
| 6 | Hurry up so that he 's got a paddy on at teatime . |
| 7 | It 's also good I think for , for cricket in general that he 's got a pitch that helps him a bit on the fifth day and that 's how it should be . |
| 8 | Only it 's just lucky that he 's got a lot ! |
| 9 | ‘ During our negotiations , he said that he wanted to get a message across to the media . |
| 10 | Another pointer to this being made up is that he has got a degree , so should have an IQ at least marginally above yer average player . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | and he 's in inherited a family home , so he 's got a home to live in , but he does n't earn very much does he ? |
| 13 | And he had got a pile of something put on the ground from the er , at your park . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | today and he 'd got a cap on and he 'd got long blond hair had n't he ? |
| 20 | They just assumed that , being black , he had n't got any — and he 'd got a degree . |
| 21 | And there was a , two friends of theirs who were courting and he 'd got a pimple on the end of his nose . |
| 22 | Steenie was putting the show on , and he 'd got a thing going with this bint Veronica . |
| 23 | And he 'd got a car |
| 24 | and he managed to get a ticket for a week |
| 25 | ‘ And he 's got a birthmark ! ’ |
| 26 | Always one to get and usually using it well and he 's got a throw-in . |
| 27 | you know , he 's that sort of bloke , he 's a very nice bloke and he 's got a heart of gold and he 's saved us no end of the money ai n't he , since I 've been working for him ? |
| 28 | And he 's got a badge on the right hand side as well . |
| 29 | There 's a man just gone upstairs , and he 's got a head like a bladder of lard ! ’ |
| 30 | He 's wearing a heavy raincoat in the photograph for some reason , though it does n't seem to be raining , with the collar turned up , and he 's got a pipe in his mouth , though there 's no sign of any smoke coming out of it . |