Example sentences of "[noun] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm McLaren got short shrift when he first called on Virgin records in the summer of 1976 , one stop among many in his search for a recording contract for his new protégés . |
| 2 | Alison got married right out of university . |
| 3 | And even though the courtesy coaches which run three times a week to Ierapetra and Sitia got booked days in advance , local buses were reliable and cheap . |
| 4 | The firm which had fire-proofed the building got high praise for the containment of the blaze . |
| 5 | Brian Williams and Ken Brierley got late goals for Liverpool at Charlton , but by then the Reds were three down and lost 3-2 . |
| 6 | Charles watched from the wings with mounting excitement as sketches and songs got rapturous receptions . |
| 7 | but they can come and go , I mean the year four they lost two teachers in the last two weeks cos their husbands got other jobs and the contracts were just terminated and , so it 's quite a , a moveable circle of people , er , but just , they have actually sacked one of the lads that came out with us , they wo n't be renewing his contract next year , he only had a two year contract |
| 8 | Hens got extra feed and you got more eggs . |
| 9 | Thus , offenders who invoke their Protestant religion as a means of justifying some action get short shrift , although we came across only one instance where this was done . |
| 10 | He posed the question : how do working class kids get working class jobs ? |
| 11 | 1,000 kids get wrong exam mark |
| 12 | The smaller nations get short shrift on somewhat different grounds : in so far as they are affected by general trends , their history recapitulates that of the major states . |
| 13 | The results thus apparently conformed to the pattern of alternation between Awlad Amira and Mannaia , those groups in the vanguard of internecine struggle and ethnic oppression getting disproportionate office . |
| 14 | I 've always done this , and have never known a horse get chapped heels or skin infections — whereas I have known horses whose owners follow the first course get mud fever . |
| 15 | FIRE FIGHTERS GET SPECIAL PAYMENTS |
| 16 | Cereal growers get European parity in change of heart |
| 17 | — JOCK STEIN GETS BAD NEWS FROM THE LOCAL CONSTABULARY |
| 18 | Jaguar Reinvests the E-type Exciting V8 sports car gets green light |
| 19 | Why should jazz get preferential treatment ? |
| 20 | Irish coalition gets temporary reprieve |
| 21 | But , in return , clients get easy-to-read statements , daily income of their uninvested cash , margin loans ( used to buy additional securities ) at low interest rates and a Visa debit card , together with dollar cheques , with the first 50 cheques free of charge . |
| 22 | And since some French political parties get financial backing from certain French-speaking leaders , they have no clear interest in offending their friends by championing devaluation . |
| 23 | RC schools get extra cash for more classrooms Two Catholic schools in Darlington will be among those to gain from new rules on extra classrooms , the town 's MP said this week . |
| 24 | I keep thinking of Joyce 's lovely airy , chintzy fiat but any mention gets short shrift . |
| 25 | Such a feature is clearly a waste of time if you are a reasonably expert photographer ( and there is no bar code reader input on the professional EOS models ) , but it helps the non-expert to get good results . |
| 26 | Using a fast film such as 1000ASA , one can use the aquarium lights supplemented by natural light to get reasonable photographs without using flash . |
| 27 | This was originally a flexiblestrip used by railwaymen to get smooth curves when laying railway lines . |
| 28 | To fit a cylinder thermostat to a pre-insulated cylinder , cut away the insulation to get metal-to-metal contact |
| 29 | His attempt to get legal redress in a particularly flagrant case ( in which the Christmas Carol was pirated virtually wholesale ) proved totally frustrating . |
| 30 | Here the changes are an attempt to get clean possession . |