Example sentences of "[adj] get a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldwin had intended to resign at once if Labour got a majority and this was still his instinct , but now he retired to Chequers where on 1 June came Davidson , Eyres Monsell , Austen Chamberlain and Hoare . |
| 2 | That got a bit hard to take . |
| 3 | He then moved to London , and at the age of twenty-one got a job as attendant and bowler at the White Conduit Club in Islington . |
| 4 | This got a laugh . |
| 5 | This got a reaction from the studio audience that these days counts as a whoosh . |
| 6 | This gets a reaction . |
| 7 | THERE was a time when it was easier to get a stockbroker to buy you lunch than to get him to give a sell recommendation for a share . |
| 8 | easier to get a video . |
| 9 | The weather 's a bit grotty or you know , or you 're not feeling too good , it 's easier to get a car , you know , to get a lift in with someone . |
| 10 | Given that the main impetus behind EMU is the desire of the French to get a seat on the Bundesbank , and given the fact that the Germans hold all the aces , this is hardly surprising . |
| 11 | MacQuillan was destined to win the contest , but I was prepared to get a strike or two in first . |
| 12 | When I used to say , ‘ Oh yeah ’ , he 'd reply , ‘ Do n't be cheeky , you 're not too old to get a clip round the ear . ’ |
| 13 | For goodness sake , why should small city-centre hotels have to operate restaurants or be forced into stupid little half-measures such as the aforementioned to get a rating ? |
| 14 | It might be sensible to get a solicitor . |
| 15 | Now they were unfashionable , maybe it would be OK to get a Filofax . |
| 16 | You do n't need to head up high to get a kick from the countryside . |
| 17 | My problem in Dalmellington was not so much getting a drink , but in actually devising a means of drinking it . |
| 18 | If the accused gets a video on credit intending to sell it , he has obtained it by deception and he has assumed one of the rights of the owner within the definition of appropriation . |
| 19 | There was always a furtive seediness behind the communist slogans and the red flags like the hard currency prostitutes in the hotels for foreigners or the backhanders required to get a table in a restaurant . |
| 20 | Its dimensions were easy to get a hold on . |
| 21 | He told her it had not been easy to get a word in . |
| 22 | I kept on at the council , but it was n't easy to get a council flat in those days . |
| 23 | It would certainly be easy to get a starting time . |
| 24 | ‘ You remember you said it was easy to get a book published if everyone knew your name ? ’ |
| 25 | Panel interviews can be rather intimidating as it is easy to get a feeling of ‘ just me against all of them ’ . |
| 26 | I 'm divorced now and not finding it easy to get a job in civvy street . ’ |
| 27 | One review summed it up saying how we were ‘ classes better in every outfield position ’ , City were extremely fortunate to get a goal , let alone a point . |
| 28 | Any falconer hunting these grounds nowadays would be fortunate to get a handful of grouse in a season and there are no partridges . |
| 29 | I 'm angry because I was told it would be relatively straightforward to get a divorce and I did n't foresee any of this . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm angry because I was told it would be relatively straightforward to get a divorce ’ |