Example sentences of "get [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er we had a lovely one but frost got that a couple of years ago . |
| 2 | And if she got half a pig 's head she used to cut the pig 's head in half and used to use the top half , and that was where the ears was , and everything , boil it until all all the meat dropped off and then she used to put in er a big basin , scrumple it up in her fingers , put some of the juice in , and put a seven pound weight on it , and a saucer , and make brawn . |
| 3 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 4 | The second attempt was much shorter and hit off , I thought , the right balance between regretful practicality and yet sufficient affection and desire for her still to want to climb into bed if I got half a chance . |
| 5 | After lunch he took her to the shops in the wide , tree-lined avenues , and though from time to time she was out of his sight she had no doubt whatever that he still thought she would rush off to telegraph news to her magazine if she got half a chance . |
| 6 | I got half a dozen drunks and three women dressed as Mother Christmas and put them on a truck and we drove round the West End on the busiest shopping day of the year playing loud jazz and bunging up the traffic . |
| 7 | Any ten you got half a doz . |
| 8 | Ah well we had , you had we had that , that bloke Americans , so we got half a point . |
| 9 | But of course he got half the value of Trafford Hall , which was quarter of a million ? |
| 10 | considering we only got half the |
| 11 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 12 | you know there 's not nobody got half an hour to wait . |
| 13 | Cos I got this the wrong way round . |
| 14 | ‘ What 's wrong ? ’ 'Nothing , ’ he says , ‘ I just got some a — mazing photographs . ’ |
| 15 | Lucy 's black friend Yvonne puts it this way ; ‘ On the whole right , it 's the people in authority what brings that tension around , you know , 'cos the black people are thinkin' 'ow comes they not gettin' all the jobs , you know . ’ |
| 16 | It was n't every day she got such a good-looking patient . |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe that 's why he got such a lucrative job . |
| 18 | I got such a shock that I toppled over sideways , ending up chest deep in freezing water . |
| 19 | I got such a shock I forgot he was behind the glass and thought he was going to shove his face right into mine . |
| 20 | The Vicar 's wife , who had parked on a yellow line while her gay husband went into the shop to get a treacle tart , got such a shock when Wayne stuck his big , hairy white face in through the window that she jumped out and ran away . |
| 21 | To begin with I got such a kick from it all . |
| 22 | It all seems to go back to that morning when Mrs. Millings got such a dreadful shock . " |
| 23 | I yelled at the top of my voice and Jean got such a fright she sent the Cortina swerving all over the road . |
| 24 | But it 's for me too — I got such a buzz out of seeing the kids ’ faces at that show . |
| 25 | It I think forty five they started negotiating forty five forty to forty seven and er when we tried to alter the national agreement or change it in our minds for the better you always had the solid block of these wee fellows up and down the country sticking by the national agreement because they got such a good deal out of it it brought their standards right up to the the best that was going . |
| 26 | it 's all going ahead they want us in as soon as possible that 's how we got such a good |
| 27 | I did n't know I got I did n't know that I got such a deep voice . |
| 28 | That 's why you got such a big head ! |
| 29 | At first this was a slow process but as the group got bigger the church planting gained in momentum . |
| 30 | Many stores were as small as 500 sq ft — about the size of the corner shops which they still resembled — but as the big boys got bigger the small shops went to the wall . |