Example sentences of "[pers pn] gets some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gets some help from their son who lives with them and works night shifts and from a care attendant once a week for a three-hour session who makes lunch and supervises James ' toilet care . |
| 2 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 3 | It gets some advertising on its only local station , Cork 89FM , whose transmission hours are likely to be extended soon . |
| 4 | he went mad and he was trying to cover it up and that cos I mean over the club , and he goes there on a Saturday afternoon , he gets some stick over there . |
| 5 | I hope he gets some sleep . ’ |
| 6 | In the sonnet just quoted , for instance , Shakespeare presents the Poet in a humiliating situation , indifferent to the behaviour of the Mistress with other men just so long as he gets some share of the action . |
| 7 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
| 8 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 9 | " Harry , see that he gets some heat on that shoulder right away . " |