Example sentences of "get [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All got strange names have n't they ? |
| 2 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |
| 3 | We got broad beans up |
| 4 | They got eight copies of them video shop |
| 5 | But I got 75 cents off a New Old Fashioned Patty Melt … |
| 6 | Just in case we got conflicting stories . ’ |
| 7 | He got fifty pounds for writing that in as well . |
| 8 | So what have we done , we 've put the money into ten lots of five pound now okay so we got fifty pounds let's say we had it in five pound notes . |
| 9 | Charles watched from the wings with mounting excitement as sketches and songs got rapturous receptions . |
| 10 | You got eleven grandchildren . |
| 11 | As pumps improved , Crookes got lower pressures than Faraday had been able to do ; and eventually he discovered cathode rays , which he interpreted as this fourth state . |
| 12 | Scoring 100 points for number one on the list , 99 for number two and so on , Transworld got 1,199 points ; Pan , in second place , got 893 . |
| 13 | He had been picked out at an identification parade only after his photograph had been shown to the prosecution witnesses — three criminals who got shorter sentences for helping the police . |
| 14 | ‘ I got Social Studies , ’ said Camille , unanswerably . |
| 15 | Medical and veterinary faculties ( for which the competition was high , the numbers limited ) could lay down that candidates would not be considered unless they got high grades in physics , chemistry and biology at A level . |
| 16 | Ben has also been giving those Yorkshire boys a good seeing-to with an on-sight flash of Kleptomanis ( F8a ) at the Holywood Bowl , a one-day ascent of the Yorkshire Ripper ( F8b ) at Kilnsey , and he got Magnetic Fields ( F8a/8a+ ) first red-point . |
| 17 | window sill on there , say , and then this comes down and they got French windows at the bottom . |
| 18 | ( Eg I got 2 pounds of a cop ticket for wimbledon — meaning I can see a match for 5.50 ) It only takes me going to 5 matches like this and I 've got good value for my initial investment . |
| 19 | Er as you got older of course you got different meals , but as youngsters we ate a terrific amount of bread and jam . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't be hard on the lad , ’ said Pete , ‘ They got different problems , that 's all . ’ |
| 21 | But , th the man like the , they all got different methods , see ? |
| 22 | MINTO : Paxford says the B set is easier ; Paxford says he got forty stations on it : he made it work beautifully . |
| 23 | nothing got some tissues |
| 24 | Did you get some sweetcorn ? right We got some brussels sprouts |
| 25 | ‘ We got some eggs too , Mrs Parvis , ’ said Gloria . |
| 26 | Nope we sat and le and the other day we got some chips , you know , me and Mikila and sat in the park |
| 27 | My solicitor got some papers for me to sign , but I was so depressed I did n't know what it was about . |
| 28 | Christopher Attwooll , prosecuting , said the cousins got some friends to help knock through an internal wall between the sitting room and kitchen of Crook 's flat . |
| 29 | ‘ We had some players on expensive long-term contracts that we could n't afford , while I got some players to agree to wage cuts , ’ he explained . |
| 30 | Well last time you got some vouchers right you |