Example sentences of "i [verb] get [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 mind you the trouble is it 's alright in saying that but you see I 've got a bad chest , Philip 's got a bad chest
2 Cos I mean get a good deal
3 I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel .
4 Today I tried to get a whole tin every day , it 's just because it happened .
5 I am not so green that I expect to get the sole credit on this movie .
6 I want some Diet Coke , I want to get a massive thing of Diet Coke .
7 " Hazel , " said Fiver suddenly , " I want to get a clear idea of this Silverweed , but I dare n't go closer by myself .
8 I want to get the right sort of thing for you .
9 We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance .
10 I 'd got a troublesome cough developed , and now looking back through the years , er it would have been a sort of hay-feverish condition that I I have been a bit bothered with .
11 I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’
12 Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over .
13 I 'd got a fumbling schoolboy with no more idea of what a girl needed than the man in the moon .
14 I was in bed for a week with concussion and the doctor said at first he thought I 'd got a broken pelvis .
15 But like , it was alright then because like means that you can changed up in this one corner of the changing room all the time and so I 'd got my shirt on while I was putting my T-shirt on like for the reason that my bra strap was bust , not actually because I 'd got a gigantic love bite around my neck !
16 I would , if I 'd got a fast car and I 'd lost my dreams .
17 Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses .
18 I was told I 'd got a little girl , then I heard her crying .
19 So I worked down here and nights up there preparing it and all round this , this place was coat hooks and that , where they all hung their things and I had to knock them down , you know what I mean , and fix me own benches up and er I 'd got a little treadle lather and er sufficient for me to start .
20 How did you guess I 'd got a secret plan ? ’
21 Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well .
22 Yeah I 'm sorry I 'm a little bit late but , you know , I just wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turnings cos erm
23 Erm I wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turning I think was the answer but there was no reason to say I had problems finding you or I was held up I 'm sorry for that or , or anything , there was no , there was no actual acknowledgement or reason for being late .
24 to wonder whether I 'd got the right time .
25 Eyes looking back and I 'd got the old bit moving all the time keeping , he said righto get out , you 're leading me , they were too pleased to get rid of them .
26 I thought I 'd got the initial start and I wanted to keep ahead all the time .
27 'and there was 1 , making my husband 's life a misery , sure I 'd got the dreaded C.
28 In a few weeks time , I hope to get a short spell of leave , and I mean to devote it exclusively to literary work .
29 I seem to get an awful lot of shitty pants — they 're both [ carer 's father and his brother , who live together ] incontinent in their own way …
30 I seem to get an awful lot of , it 's like
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