Example sentences of "[verb] get the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Wimbledon got got the right royal rave . |
| 2 | How the hell can I calm down when that fucking idiot of a chef has got the entire kitchen staff making canapés when they should be preparing the buffet ? |
| 3 | The bourgeoisie , wherever it has got the upper hand , has put an end to all feudal , patriarchal , idyllic relations . |
| 4 | Even in the city of bikes it seems the car has got the upper hand . |
| 5 | Even in the city of bikes it seems the car has got the upper hand . |
| 6 | they 're about the same , so when the hundred gram bar has got the extra ten per cent it 's it 's just just makes it the better bargain , er , they 're not losing much on that cos they save on the wrapping , so it probably costs them the same |
| 7 | But your old coins wo n't go to waste , because Malcolm Campbell , a service engineer at Wood Group Engineering Services [ Peterhead ] Ltd has got the perfect solution . |
| 8 | And Madge has got the other set . |
| 9 | Has got the other |
| 10 | It has got the right profile . |
| 11 | Bruce has got the right track record and I feel confident he will get results . ’ |
| 12 | However , we can not even be sure that it has got the causal effects absolutely right . |
| 13 | But he has got the continental grammar sort of Italians , you know what they 're like . |
| 14 | Cornwall on the other hand , has been a , has got the appropriate objective status aimed at developing rural areas , that demonstrates the difference between the two . |
| 15 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 16 | Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ? |
| 17 | So , after much jockeying and a few power lunches ( although all three contestants for the top spot — McDonald , Stewart , and Somerville — deny this ) Trevor has got the top job and a salary reckoned close to £125,000 a year . |
| 18 | But he has got the top job . |
| 19 | Val 's scheme has got the full backing of police in Gloucestershire and West Mercia . |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman has got the wrong end of the stick about how they work . |
| 21 | The trouble is baldness has got the wrong |
| 22 | Terrible thing to suggest and anybody who thinks that I think has got the wrong idea of this motion . |
| 23 | ‘ He has got the wrong end of the stick , ’ said Coun Smailes last night . |
| 24 | When you buy a small can of frozen concentrated orange juice you arc getting the fibre-free contents of a large quantity of oranges , at a cost of more than 200 calories per can . |
| 25 | Rowan Martin , who had worked for 20 years with the department , had been widely tipped to get the new post of deputy director of the department , until his arrest in mid-1992 on corruption charges , on which he was later exonerated . |
| 26 | For the colt always objected violently to having an iron shoe nailed on to its hoofs ; and sometimes the smith and his assistants were thrown about the trav ‘ us as they tried to get the young animal under control . |
| 27 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 28 | For many years all British clubs used 1,000 lb weak links which failed on any two-seater launch where the pilot tried to get the maximum height . |
| 29 | But one night we tried to get the whole entire floor out on the landing . |
| 30 | I am not so green that I expect to get the sole credit on this movie . |