Example sentences of "get [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 2 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 3 | You got rather a lot of beans . |
| 4 | THE 101st anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh on May 19th got only a muted celebration in Hanoi . |
| 5 | ‘ Once , Ndah was clean through and he was blatantly brought down by Mike Marsh , who got only a yellow card . |
| 6 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 7 | He got together a serious amount of cash and called a meeting with the skaters to ask them what they wanted ; 3 skaters turned up . |
| 8 | Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid . |
| 9 | A research scientist called Mulk got together a group of followers and created two robots , assassination machines designed to put an end to Bangler 's reign of terror , once and for all … |
| 10 | Shortly after his arrival he got together a conference of Anglo-Burmans , who agreed that when they returned to Burma they would ally themselves more closely with the people of the country rather than as exclusively with the British side of their heritage as they had tended to do in pre-war days . |
| 11 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 12 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 13 | Well , we sort of got together a couple of times — he was an interesting sort of man — done a lot of sailing , single-handed stuff . |
| 14 | So Ralph got together a group of dealers people like Sidney Janis , Alexandre Rosenberg , Klaus Perls , Pierre Matisse . |
| 15 | We got together a group of important dealers and they all came over and testified , and the gallery owner said the artist was lying , but in the end the show was closed and the gallery closed . |
| 16 | Between Silver and myself , we got together a crew of the toughest seamen you can imagine . |
| 17 | Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government . |
| 18 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 19 | 'Cos , like , just 'cos you 're gettin' on a bit does n't mean you ca n't wear fab gear an' pull groovy chicks an' that . |
| 20 | It 's gettin' so a fella do n't know where he 's dippin' it . |
| 21 | Most of them had never been before and was scared , she got just a little bit of water in her mouth and she thought she was drowning but instead of saying drowning she said to me , ‘ I drownded ’ . |
| 22 | He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did . |
| 23 | it it got away a bit you know and and |
| 24 | Some people thought plastic plates were tacky , but if you used the real thing once you got over a certain number you just had endless mess afterwards . |
| 25 | The attacker grabbed the child after she she got off a bus alone and told her : ‘ I 'm going to kill you . ’ |
| 26 | The warning cry came from Petion , who got off a single shot at Richmann before the mercenary major swung the Winchester around and fired it with a roar . |
| 27 | A D-V flashed across , firing and missing ; Richards got off a burst and saw his bullets rip open the fuselage . |
| 28 | Police who put her on a train said she got home a day after her husband … and ‘ in a foul mood . ’ |
| 29 | And er when you 'd got on a bit you delivered the baby but the midwife was there to see you did n't make any mistakes and , and really to t teach you to do it . |
| 30 | I 've got rather a lot on my mind . ’ |