Example sentences of "they got [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For their money , they got traditional advice — Gover would always try to get batsmen to live up to the technical ideal of Jack Hobbs — put in an unstuffy and flexible way : ‘ We would fit the mould to the customers , not the other way round . ’ |
| 2 | I and the girls , that 's , that 's all they got fifteen shillings because I was in the office I got a pound and mind you we slept in , we had all our food , you see , and we had to all sleep in . |
| 3 | do you suppose they got that name because she was always |
| 4 | I was hoping when they got that link road through they might connect up , but I do n't suppose it , sort of roads got ta put parking towards the long piece of |
| 5 | They weighed up the prospect of knocking on the door and members of the jury , you have to consider in due course whether they got that act right . |
| 6 | And once they got that section all set , they started to cut the next in . |
| 7 | They got that sort of marble stuff . |
| 8 | They got all duvets and covers and |
| 9 | They got all sorts love . |
| 10 | They got all sorts of video erm tapes . |
| 11 | And so , they were far too f They got far things far too reduced in price , to have said much about it , it was the accepted world , then . |
| 12 | Hospital authorities were warned that there may be some injuries from the competition at the resort 's Spa Pavilion , but they were floored when they got nine patients in quick succession . |
| 13 | Oh look at that one they got arrows an they got two arrows facing one another . |
| 14 | I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown . |
| 15 | Well they got two kids now but the , it was then , you know ? |
| 16 | Well they they get her to do or even erm they got one cutting girl who came in er got a photograph from Vogue erm Michael Caine 's daughter |
| 17 | As they got one face off we 'd turn them , over , the pans had to be turned over and backs built you see ? |
| 18 | They got long poles on the back step . |
| 19 | It is n't broadcast to the rest of the manor by the way they got close circuit T V . |
| 20 | Normally I like looking through books — you know , if they got nice pictures and that in them , but I du n no — I just ai n't very interested at the moment . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | And they , and they got thirty-odd year ! |
| 23 | Well they they got reasonable care because , like I said , that was , that was the the owner knew that er that was his livelihood then |
| 24 | If they got five tapes off everybody by the Christ they 'll have some listening to do wo n't they ? |
| 25 | The trading employees in India were not paid salaries in the modern sense of income they could live on ; they got small retainers , starting at perhaps £5 a year , and it was taken for granted that they would supplement their retainers by trading , sometimes acting as agents buying the goods that would eventually be exported by the Company ( though this could easily lead to fraud ) , but more often dealing for their own account . |
| 26 | They got four I D Ts . |
| 27 | Bill Oddie was the first comedy hippy , they had stupid hit singles ( something Python only managed ten years after the event ) , they got stuffy BBC presenters to do daft things ( Raymond Baxter in string underpants ) and , true to form , they went to ITV in 1980 and were crap . |
| 28 | Using samplers , slowed-down tapes , echo-box , fuzz , wah wah , bullhorns , saws , car doors ( from which they got slowed-down squeaking sounds ) , and tapes of cattle lowing , they plumbed new depths of the bass-spectrum , new limits in the degradation and deterioration of sound . |
| 29 | They got eight copies of them video shop |
| 30 | But they were making a tally , they got little things , you know , like . |