Example sentences of "get [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean if I got kind of aroused right now , I should n't fight it or flounder , or try to control it , but just be it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ There are some really good women writers around at the moment ; Shawn Colvin 's excellent , and so 's a woman called Ferron , although she got kind of pigeonholed into ‘ women 's music ’ , and I think that 's limited her audience . |
| 3 | sort of got kind of an odd relationship between the friends |
| 4 | I 'll bet it got kind of cosy at night ! |
| 5 | Long hours of standing over benches by the lock makers got part of the Black Country known as " Humpshire " . |
| 6 | The Met got 50% of its budget from the city in 1969 . |
| 7 | They got crowds of them from there . |
| 8 | The weather was better for the flight back along the north coast , and we got views of the 8,000-foot-plus Picos de Europa which we 'd missed on the way down . |
| 9 | From his local library he got photocopies of the maps of his district for 1811 , 1843 and 1871 ; he 'd sit there and try to work out how the changes in the maps related to the view at night ; where the darkness of rookeries , courts and tenements had been replaced with the darkness of lampless parks and public gardens . |
| 10 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 11 | I got loads of plants now . |
| 12 | I got loads of them now — mostly different colours . |
| 13 | ‘ We did once and we got loads of comments — Liz even got chased down the road by a tramp ! ’ |
| 14 | , I got loads of observations here . |
| 15 | As long as we got loads of money its ok to sell all our players and be a rich 4th division side . |
| 16 | As long as we got loads of money its ok to sell all our players and be a rich 4th division side . |
| 17 | They got about six or seven bars of chocolate as the one the joint ones they got loads of them |
| 18 | So she gave them to , loads to Joe , she got loads of . |
| 19 | I got loads of dosh , look ! |
| 20 | We got loads of tins of that did n't we ? |
| 21 | I got loads of toiletries and things this year ! |
| 22 | My mum gave me got loads of them as well , I 'll eat the ones my mum gave me . |
| 23 | From time to time the authorities got wind of these breaches of regulations and punished clubs , but they did not regularly inspect the books and revelations of extra payments tended to emerge as a result of other inquiries . |
| 24 | On Friday its shares jumped 2p to 32p as the market got wind of some kind of deal , valuing the group at £130million . |
| 25 | ‘ It would be worse than Amazon House finding out if she got wind of what 's going on . |
| 26 | The enemy soon became aware of the importance of the work at Bawdsey and our intelligence got wind of plans for a massive attempt to demolish the research station . |
| 27 | If anybody got wind of strangers about the area , we sent the children back to their parents immediately . |
| 28 | Word of his presence had reached the army commander at Inverness and 1500 men were secretly sent off to capture him , but his hostess got wind of the plan and sent the prince to shelter in the woods , having posted four servants with a local blacksmith to watch for the approaching column . |
| 29 | And then he added , ‘ I was talking to one of Big Joe 's bouncers and it was his opinion that she got wind of what was to happen , before they had time to give her a dose , likely . |
| 30 | Weir quickly got wind of the plan to remove him and discussed the matter with the bailie , James Graham , and the latter had to agree that there was no blame which could be attached to Weir 's conduct beyond his recent irregular attendance , but it was hardly possible for a court to function without a prosecutor , and although Weir was going to have to go , James Graham insisted that ‘ it should be done in the most decent manner and almost with his own consent ’ . |