Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [verb] get a " in BNC.

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1 If there is a name signed inside the card you 've got a ninety per cent chance of , its a hoax , no one signs their name in front of a card .
2 Yes , yes , now that group have come into me and two weeks after they 've worn the hairpiece they 've got a job after two and half years of not finding work , so what do you say to that ?
3 Now erm at the moment I 've got a lot to fit in
4 With the diving you 've got a few decisions to make — some things to avoid , some personal choice — and it 's worth getting it right .
5 Right , so the interesting thing from , we 've got a lot of experience there , we 've got some people in the room who 've got a lot of experience in the industry and in business , is that one of the reasons why we 're looking for parcels , if you like , is because of that .
6 And if the generator gives up the ghost in the night you 've got a torch on the table , and a candle .
7 It looks as if over there stuck on the wall they 've got a rechargeable for hoover for taking crumbs off the tables .
8 Were actually are making a profit we said at the beginning we do get a payment from petticoats so I do n't see that arrangement actually changing but it suits the trust were not very good at running restaurant 's . .
9 One of you 's got grievance and you want something done , there is something that you want done and the other person , is the person you want to do it or the person who 's got a part to play .
10 Erm yeah you got on , on the advert on the television you 've got a P C , which one is it ?
11 In the box it 's got a handle .
12 You yes you over there with the accordion we 've got a mission , Children in Need programmed broadcasts celebrities to meet Paul Ayre Richmond .
13 coming down like that , but in the corner you 've got a piece of concrete
14 Out of the blue he had got a job as a mail boy in the MGM studios at thirty dollars a week , twice as much as he was paid in the toy store .
15 Um also by that time er perhaps with a bit more experience of the world you 've got a bit more to compare it with and you 've got a strong sense that this is unjust , unreasonable and that other people do n't have to suffer from it .
16 yes , the end one 's got a lot of roo , you know ?
17 In the end I decide to get a big cup of coffee and a jam doughnut .
18 We were going to talk about his subject of the day to put him at ease , and then just come out with it — ‘ By the way I 've got a joke for you Dave … ’
19 It was the way he asked get a cloth , that 's what he was saying , I was howling .
20 The trouble is , in the middle you 've got a great gulf of lack of information , and predicting in those
21 No , but if you go in the middle you 've got a chance to wake up .
22 and she , to help her to run the country she 's got a parliament
23 I in , in the north you 've got a higher proportion of owner-occupiers and
24 you perhaps have n't got the same degree of landlord exploitation , you might , I think one might argue from , from what we said earlier that in the north you 've got a s a slightly more paternalistic landlord , it 's , it , there 's less , less absentee landlordism landlords were more likely to have been behaving within the confines of moral economy would n't , would n't have been tt erm reducing rents , it was done on a much more , more personal sort of scale .
25 See I do n't see erm them shifting very much for that because by the time you 've got a bloke out paid his wages , paid for the the erm skip shifter , transporter you know .
26 Yeah , I just say get a , a meal of a fish it 's gon na cost you a fiver then ai n't it , come down on by the time you 've got a two , three of them .
27 Unem the level of unemployment is subsumed between , well , within the time it takes to get a job , and also the probability of , of getting a job .
28 One was a young man from the shop-floor who 'd got a metal splinter in his eye and the other was a secretary who had caught her heel in one of the open staircases and twisted her ankle .
29 The press officer , Barbara Bloomfield , complained at a meeting of the Greens ' council in January 1990 that if she wanted to step out of the office she had to get a volunteer to take her place , possibly an overseas student who knew next to nothing about the press or the party .
30 Eventually , after knocking my pan in , and doing my nut generally till I was blue in the face I manage to get a Response out of Annemarie Barr .
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