Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up to get some water and went to the window . |
| 2 | ‘ They said I 'd just got 50-60 years wear out of the knee in 15 years . ’ |
| 3 | erm and I 'd just got one comment that I like to make and er then the question . |
| 4 | ‘ No time to say really — but we were just about off , and I was holding the books for Dad when he said , ‘ I 'd best get those papers for old Holroyd . ’ |
| 5 | So I thought I 'd better get some petrol in case Mr Marius Steen did come up to town over the weekend . |
| 6 | ‘ No problem , but if you want me in the village do n't you think I 'd better get some transport of my own ? |
| 7 | She shifted the rather heavy , though small , paper bag which she was carrying , and said : ‘ I guess I 'd better get some tea before all the cookies go . |
| 8 | I 'd better get some coffee she 's going to tell Joe that you charged her this . |
| 9 | I 'd better get some clothies on cause a bit of a stir round the estate agents , naked from the waist down , darling |
| 10 | I 'd better get another box . |
| 11 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 12 | I 'd only got half way and I heard the row going on , so I cut across and met them . |
| 13 | I , I of course , I suppose going round with milk I 'd perhaps got more confidence th cos I had to take milk whether I wanted to or not , see and we if we got down there and there was two or three of the conductresses down the fleck and er , jump on a Dalston bus cos I 'd got to get to like , you know . |
| 14 | ‘ All these years , Dad , I believed I 'd actually got some roots of my own , roots in this family , even a natural father in New Zealand — ’ She broke off and looked questioningly at her father . |
| 15 | So I went out to get some fish and chips and they called me NIGGGGGAH ! ’ |
| 16 | PS Mark , I did not get any slippers although I could do with some . |
| 17 | Although I did not get this trouble with my machines , we used to suffer badly when we first got our computer . |
| 18 | I said let's wait and see how it prints and Vic agreed but I did n't get good vibes . |
| 19 | I did n't get many visits . |
| 20 | ‘ How come I did n't get prior warning of a major development in our relationship ? ’ |
| 21 | I did n't get all caramels |
| 22 | Erm Well I 'm a trained teacher but er I did n't get much experience in teaching although I had obtained my degree in teaching in nineteen fifty-eight . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't get much schooling . |
| 24 | Unfortunately because it , it was a special sell today job with a reduction off others I did n't get much money back . |
| 25 | I did n't get much opportunity to talk to for any length of time but she managed to arrange to meet with the others with young babies and we planned to get together again later that week . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't get much sleep last night and I came out pretty groggy . |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't get that message . ’ |
| 28 | I was n't in for drugs , so I did n't get that treatment . |
| 29 | He argues that it is common for a depressed person to grossly exaggerate the negative implications of events ( sometimes called ‘ catastrophising ’ ) : ‘ I did n't get that job I 'm not bright enough — I 'll be unemployed or in low-level jobs for ever — I 'll be bored and boring-my friends will abandon me — my husband wo n't love me any more . ’ |
| 30 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |