Example sentences of "[noun sg] get a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
| 2 | But it was rather boring , and one of the gang got a can of anti-perspirant and suggested that they each have a sniff to get high and have ‘ dreams ’ . |
| 3 | See if we got that bottle of whisky got a bottle of Bells . |
| 4 | When we received it we thought it was great , but after chewing on them for a while , mum got a bit worried as the pieces we were chewing off looked like hard plastic . |
| 5 | The only thing that really happened was that my mum got a divorce in 1972 on the grounds that he had sexually assaulted me and there was mental cruelty to her . |
| 6 | And Mum got a lot of money for her suite . |
| 7 | You know these scratch and win cards , well her Mum got a lot of money anyway . |
| 8 | That was before we could afford a ‘ better house ’ , before Mum got a job , before we moved to Exeter . |
| 9 | Mum got a job , she was a spindlejack . |
| 10 | I think everyone who took part got a lot out of it and BNFL got back employees better for the experience . ’ |
| 11 | The Superintendent got a paper handkerchief from a drawer in his desk and took the bullet in a strip of tissue from the handkerchief . |
| 12 | I 'd really rather you wo- got a bit better . |
| 13 | In the middle of the chaos the unfortunate earl 's car got a puncture ; sorting that out was an unspeakable experience . |
| 14 | THE mushroom industry got a boost today with the opening of a new spawn distribution centre in Co Armagh . |
| 15 | But his side got a lot of things wrong . |
| 16 | Still was n't enough goals though even if Poland had beaten Holland , England still would n't have qualified because they needed , because er the opposition got a goal , they need to be , they had to win by seven clear goals so that meant they had to win eight one , not seven one , you see . |
| 17 | HAS THE CHEF GOT A PIG 'S HEAD ? |
| 18 | I organized that at Conway Hall now , in most reference books my agent 's name is listed , and my agent got a call saying the minute I began to read from that book I would die . |
| 19 | And the Fijians were n't about to let Tim Horan and his new-look side get a look-in in the semi-final . |
| 20 | There has been a lot of this kind of partnership in recent years and there is no doubt that there is some mutual benefit but the benefits are unrelated for each party — the college gets a resource that it can use , the donor a warm sense of public spirit , a tax deduction or some publicity . |
| 21 | In return for holding the party , the agent gets a fee or commission ( a percentage of the price ) on goods sold . |
| 22 | Members of Unix International have approached it to suggest that the true blue Unix club get a piece of the COSE requirement process , and word is that Unix International is having informal discussions with the COSE crew . |
| 23 | They failed to meet the League 's noon deadline to provide assurances they could continue and tomorrow 's Coca-Cola Cup tie at Reading has been cancelled with the Second Division side getting a bye . |
| 24 | Each January the Association gets a transfusion with the payment of the annual subscriptions , but our corporate health is not all that it could be . |
| 25 | If I was sure I was going to at least 10 home matches next season Id get a kop season ticket straight away ! |
| 26 | Den gets a milk float in his window |
| 27 | And that was last summer and that was the next summer and the girl , one of the gir the people that was in the car gets a letter |
| 28 | Then Cobalt gets a hint about drugs hidden in the Villa Fiesole and Maurin also turns up here . ’ |
| 29 | No , I was gon na say mm wo n't do him any harm getting a bit of a taste of his own medicine . |
| 30 | Will DJ get a rave review and rock right into the top ten ? tune in next month for the full ZZAP ! lowdown-down-diggerydown ! |