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 | Just in case we got conflicting stories . ’ |
| 5 | Charles watched from the wings with mounting excitement as sketches and songs got rapturous receptions . |
| 6 | ‘ I got Social Studies , ’ said Camille , unanswerably . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | window sill on there , say , and then this comes down and they got French windows at the bottom . |
| 10 | Er as you got older of course you got different meals , but as youngsters we ate a terrific amount of bread and jam . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't be hard on the lad , ’ said Pete , ‘ They got different problems , that 's all . ’ |
| 12 | But , th the man like the , they all got different methods , see ? |
| 13 | The runs were hosed down every day — which meant the dogs got very wet feet and the little ones got wet tummies . |
| 14 | Everyone got free passes over there . |
| 15 | In those days , if you stuck an advert for the cinema in your window , you got free tickets , and long before I ever understood any kind of plot , we 'd all troop down to the local flea pit and watch whatever was showing . |
| 16 | He matched the record of six A-level passes at grade A — AND got top marks in the Cambridge entrance exams . |
| 17 | And I think the last start was about one o'clock in the morning and you got extra payments for the extra hours . |
| 18 | We got amazing proposals in from men , which were entirely about general health , ignoring any particular women 's health issues . |
| 19 | I got easy lessons . |
| 20 | We got stated hours , nobody lets us off because the Comer floods . ’ |
| 21 | Omi and the children got perfunctory nods from Marx but he peered intently at Bodo who , massive arms folded , was leaning against the wall . |
| 22 | ‘ We got last-minute flights , turned up unannounced and accosted him . ’ |
| 23 | My brother and I got dried bananas |
| 24 | The SSC also apparently got differing accounts of the project 's finances ; the participants in L* did not always say the same thing as the management . |
| 25 | But they were making a tally , they got little things , you know , like . |
| 26 | photographs , she sent me three lovely photographs taken in erm i in St Helens Road the day of her party on the Sunday before Christmas and they were so good I 've ha I 've , I 've got , rushed out and got little frames for them . |
| 27 | She got little ones . |
| 28 | They ate well , but she got little thanks for it from the mistress of the hut . |
| 29 | I got little pyjamas for him three ninety nine at . |
| 30 | One end is and the other one ai n't , and it was a yacht and a yacht , they got little rooms in or something cos in n it ? |