Example sentences of "gets a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And then he ditches me , gets a new contract with that shit Martinez and starts winning tournaments . |
| 2 | London gets a new art book publishing house |
| 3 | Some changes may come in the ‘ bottom-up ’ review now bubbling through the Pentagon ; others could be brought in when the organisation gets a new boss . |
| 4 | Here 's a typical example of a Viz comic strip : Dad gets a new putter for Christmas and says ( to onlooking wife and guffawing son ) , ‘ Oh ! |
| 5 | Some bad habits that horses acquire may be learnt ‘ passively ’ : they are caused by faulty training or poor riding , and no one may be aware of them until the horse changes hands or gets a new rider . |
| 6 | The VW Vento range gets a new entry level model , the Vento L with a 1 . |
| 7 | He gets a new start on life because he does n't remember . |
| 8 | General takes on task of taming volatile valley As Kashmir gets a new governor , Rahul Bedi looks at the way three years of violence has affected the lives of people in the troubled state |
| 9 | A perennial favourite , the polka dot gets a new lease of life in bold emerald green and brilliant white . |
| 10 | The locator device gets a new battery … just in case . |
| 11 | The tables are turned when suave , successful Dr Jack MacKee ( William Hurt ) gets a serious throat infection . |
| 12 | It 's just I mean as philosophy just very standardly takes words from ordinary language gradually gets a technical meaning , er which is different from the original meaning and then when ordinary speakers use it in the original meaning they get told off . |
| 13 | WISE CHILDREN Angela Carter Carter 's obsession with performance gets a final airing as twin sister vaudeville actresses go to Hollywood and aim for the big time . |
| 14 | Each gets a final polish with his cloth , and he grins into them as if they were mirrors . |
| 15 | August 31 : Reports that Diana will ‘ quit as a Royal ’ within a month unless she gets a legal separation follow the revelations of the ‘ Squidgy ’ tape . |
| 16 | At least if a guy from a local station gets a prominent network job , it reflects well on that station . ’ |
| 17 | But even if the old partnership of Christian Democrats , Socialists and Liberals gets a working majority , the serious opposition parties have made their point more effectively than at any time since 1948 . |
| 18 | Gilliland gets a reasonable fit between records of actual temperature and his model if he leaves solar variations out altogether and works only with the build-up of carbon dioxide and influence of volcanic products on the atmosphere . |
| 19 | Now , the mere sight of the cake crumbs floating on the tea has no particular effect on him , but suddenly when he actually tastes them he gets a strange feeling of excitement , a feeling almost of elation . |
| 20 | it just gets a wee bit much |
| 21 | It sometimes goes the , the colour as it , as it starts to heal up the , colour gets a wee bit lighter |
| 22 | Before he can open his mouth he gets a simple instruction from each of us , so he stands switching his gaze from her to me and back again like he 's at a tennis match . |
| 23 | He was pleased the Government was putting money where it was needed : ‘ The average farmer gets a poor return on capital invested . |
| 24 | Alongside its other main protagonists , the amateur architects Dr Henry Aldrich of Christ Church and Dr George Clarke of All Souls [ qq.v. ] , and the professional Nicholas Hawksmoor [ q.v. ] , he was a prominent figure in this development ; and the statement of the antiquarian Thomas Hearne [ q.v. ] in 1720 , that he ‘ hath a hand in all the Buildings of Oxford , and gets a vast deal of Money that way ’ , was no exaggeration . |
| 25 | HEIGHT OF EXCITEMENT : Wigmore gets a spectacular view from the top — but his interest starts to fall off |
| 26 | More cunning still is the practice of launching a brand of E with good stuff , so that the manufacturer gets a healthy reputation , and then distributing more dubious material , often brought in from other areas . |
| 27 | Right , second baby has a P K U gene from his mum and a normal gene from his dad and he is not affected , but he is a P K U carrier , right , third baby gets a normal gene from his mum and a P K U gene from his dad and he 's the same , or she 's the same P K U carrier , but not affected , unfortunately the last baby gets a P K U gene from , from mum and a P K U gene from dad and this baby has got P K U and that is a simple , simple sort of exercise of how genetic disorders sometimes appear and sometimes do n't |
| 28 | He gets a great deal by showing his landscapes at one shilling each visitor . |
| 29 | Although Sprake got and still gets a great deal of stick , including from me , he was in fact an excellent keeper . |
| 30 | It 's a contradiction she captures in one of her characters in Without You I 'm Nothing — a secretary who moves to swinging San Francisco , gets a great job , then marries her boss , talking all the time in a torrent of adspeak , product placement and magazine cliché . |