Example sentences of "[verb] get a big " in BNC.

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1 Ours , ours has got a bigger garden .
2 ‘ He has got a big name already but it 's going to get even bigger in Italy .
3 I wish they 'd got a bigger one .
4 She 'd got a big bust .
5 And she 'd got a big black hat on , and a big black cloak , and all er crosses down here , and she 's got a boot on her arm all laced up , and nobody 'd know whether she were a man or a woman .
6 And he never forgive me for this you see because he were a big noise you know , he he 'd got a big business in .
7 Now that was her excuse but there is some evidence to say that she 'd got a big investment in weaving machine and I think she was a little bit worried er that these might take over from .
8 ‘ But I 'm not going to get a big head about it or anything .
9 We suggest that the first-born child tends to get a bigger party and more presents than subsequent children .
10 Pity you were n't a captain , then you 'd have got a bigger disability pension . ’
11 The cat must have got a bigger shock .
12 You should have got a bigger size in n it Dawn ?
13 In the end I decide to get a big cup of coffee and a jam doughnut .
14 Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd
15 In 1962 , Jack was surely wondering what it would take to get a bigger , more important film role .
16 Unless of course it 's er high rise housing housing in in in urban areas and of course in that in those scenarios you do get a big reductions in the number of .
17 We , we hired one of these little ones , we did get a bigger for the , only cost us fifteen quid to hire three chain saws for the day .
18 When young supporters chant ‘ We 'll be running round Pompey with our willies hanging out , singing I 've got a bigger one than you ’ , or some other scatological rhyme , slightly changed to fit the time and place , they are doing nothing new .
19 You 've got a bigger problem than I have , though — you ca n't leave here but I can .
20 If you 've got a bigger surgery which may break into that third week
21 I 've got a big wardrobe at the moment but it mainly consists of shoes — I bought these boots from Read or Dead . ’
22 In her famed speech on election night 1987 , as she rallied her party troops on the steps of Party Headquarters not to rest on their laurels but to continue the fight ( they were to be allowed one night of ‘ marvellous partying ’ but must start back the next day with renewed vigour ) , she announced that ‘ we 've got a big job to do in some of those inner cities … and politically , we 've got to get back in there — we want to win those too ’ .
23 Again they prefer to say ‘ I 've got a big brother ’ or ‘ a little sister ’ .
24 Hawaiians are all feel-oriented people , they feel big , they 've got a big heart , they 've got a big soul .
25 Hawaiians are all feel-oriented people , they feel big , they 've got a big heart , they 've got a big soul .
26 I 've got a big hairy do- nut !
27 I 've got a big school we fill this place in when I come in here .
28 I 've got l , well they 've got loads , I 've got a big wallet folder full of all the various leaflets .
29 ‘ I 've got a big lion , ’ Anna announces .
30 " You 've got a big thorn in there , Hlao , " he said .
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