Example sentences of "got [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
| 2 | He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately . |
| 3 | Well Julie went and got it the other day that 's why fetched her out , to get their presents . |
| 4 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 5 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 6 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 7 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |