Example sentences of "[conj] got a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to the er conference that we had at Stokewatchford , which together with er , John , er my Vice Chairman er on Europe , the other week , and there is so much mythology , er , that has been dispensed by people who are half-hearted towards Europe or got a vested interest in no has not been committed to Europe , and and they use this , and in fact the classic example was , that , one of our own Lincolnshire M P's claimed that he had saved , Lincolnshire 's from the ravages of Europe . |
| 2 | Then there was a big show of Miró in New York in the late Sixties that got a good review in what was then called The Herald Tribune . |
| 3 | The erm Lowestoft Technical Institute was actually in Clapham Road and that got a direct hit |
| 4 | He looked at the chair by the fireside and got a terrible shock . |
| 5 | And got a new feature film amongst those . |
| 6 | biography and got a real |
| 7 | And you did two years as an apprentice then another would come in and you dropped the bib and got a black apron . |
| 8 | Then when I 'd proved I could do that really well , horrible and moronic as it was , I let myself off and got a better job nearer my heart 's desire . " |
| 9 | Sometime later I had replaced the clubs and got a better set than I originally had after that I thought I was quite lucky that they had been stolen . |
| 10 | Well not necessarily that , I mean , people buy when they go , I mean , I 've always just gone straight away and got a nice bit bottle of booze and er |
| 11 | Cowboys fingered their rifles and got a right eyeful — of the feather and arrow display . |
| 12 | The youngster addressed him with condescending friendliness , and got a morose answer . |
| 13 | Erm and Derek was mildly successful erm and got a vague sort of agreement from the Deputy Returning Officer |
| 14 | GOLFER Terry Penrose drove his ball in Wales — and got a hole-in-one in England on the fourth hole at Llanymynech , which straddles the border . |
| 15 | After studying the situation for a few minutes the first macaque ran off and got a long stick . |
| 16 | The girl smiled shyly up at the big man behind the wheel and got a friendly grin in return . |
| 17 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 18 | I did a drugs awareness sketch and got a small part in the school play which was Twelfth Night . |
| 19 | He was convicted of carrying an offensive weapon and got a 28-day suspended sentence and £200 fine . |
| 20 | In the fourth part of Israel : A Nation Is Born ( C4 ) , Dr Abba Eban was celebrating a 25-year-old victory , the Six Day War , in which a coalition of Arab nations led by Egypt 's President Nasser set out to destroy the Jewish state and got a bloody nose from the Israeli pre-emptive strike . |
| 21 | It had become a sort of trouble-shooting body that had been put in to try and dish the Foreign Office and got a bloody nose . |
| 22 | I reached round and got a good handful of his arse . |
| 23 | I mean , we 'd used other drugs and got a good hit and we just wanted to try smack to see what it was like . |
| 24 | Luckily , my after-match tantrum in the dressing room certainly shook up my rabble and got a good performance against Frampton . |
| 25 | I sha n't be sorry to get home to Blackstone Rd , it worries me to think of the damp and the dirt , I hope you did what I said and aired all the rooms and linen like I said and got a good cleaning woman in like I said the same as with you , I hope . |
| 26 | Well , Bilborough , my mother lives at Bilborough , I thought it 'd be nice to be near her , my dad lives up Sherwood , and I used to , I used to live up Sherwood , it 's a good place and got a good school . |
| 27 | ‘ So did I , dear boy , so did I , ’ said the star lugubriously , and got a good laugh from the cast . |
| 28 | Ian Snodin — We nver saw the best of him and got a good price . |
| 29 | They were up against a side encouraged by a large , partisan crowd but kept their discipline and got a good result . |
| 30 | The kind of girl that even if you did n't know well you always said ‘ hello ’ to and got a cheery wave and a smile back . |