Example sentences of "[noun sg] had got [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fair enough , perhaps , but your ex-wife had got a rich new boyfriend . |
| 2 | Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen . |
| 3 | Neil Douglas , defending , said some of the adverts in The Northern Echo had got the engine capacity wrong . |
| 4 | It could be that the boy had got the whole thing planned , luring Philip out , then having him surrounded . |
| 5 | Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know |
| 6 | Duroc 's team had got the power on , and he had sent exterminator packs into the streets to begin the task of clearing out the vermin that still clung to the ruins . |
| 7 | On the eve of the ceremony in the stone-built parish church at Crathie , on the edge of the Balmoral estate , it was realised that the registrar had got the groom 's name wrong . |
| 8 | The widening of the franchise in the nineteenth century , House of Lords reform , and votes for women in the twentieth — these are issues that aroused great emotion and were fiercely opposed but on which reform was accepted once the government of the day had got the measure accepted by Parliament . |
| 9 | The architect had got the idea from the piazzas of small towns in northern Italy . |
| 10 | Sometimes the ultimate question is only in theory left to the public authority ; for example , in some cases of review for jurisdictional errors of law or fact in which it is clear that if the authority had got the law or the facts right , its decision would have been different and could only have been one way . |
| 11 | On our drizzly recce day another stunning ‘ climb-me ’ crackline had got a few hearts fluttering — a beautiful , curving hand crack as a main course , a direct finish for dessert and a few spaced rings for spice . |
| 12 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 13 | It was bad , the old man had got a secondary in his lung . |
| 14 | People were asking whether the Government had got the economy right , Mr Baker said . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) — a Conservative — said that the Government had got the poll tax wrong . |
| 16 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 17 | Charles Paris was heard to remark cynically that George , having seen that the star had got a deaf-aid , thought he ought to have one too . |
| 18 | They may not have thought of it as expertise , but when people said to me a particular ward is dirty , I went and looked at it , and in a very short time , within about ten minutes , that ward had got a massive clean-up team in there , that 's the sort of thing that I felt was useful . |
| 19 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 20 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 21 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 22 | And if the old boy in the field had got a grudge against the bloke taking it off he used to shove it anywhere so he 'd have to pull it off , instead of following the the seam round , you see ? |
| 23 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 24 | His mum had got the caterers in back at the house and there were great plates of sandwiches and cakes and even a couple of barrels of Tetley 's out in the kitchen with the head waiter from the restaurant at Mary Ann Evans 's dispensing from the tap . |
| 25 | Me dad had got a decent job for them times , you know he , I think he got thirty bob a week which was a lot of money . |
| 26 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 27 | Yeah dad dad had got the baby outside , yes . |
| 28 | At one such meeting a heckler had got a great round of cheers from the assembled throng when he had told Clasper to get off his bloody soap-box and do a day 's work for a bloody change . |
| 29 | The young woman was the one who seemed to be ‘ making the running , ’ but if the young chap had got a bit carried away , no doubt he would have been hauled up to court . |
| 30 | Now , if the Liaison Office had got the same number from Maxim , then the embassy gossip vine had to be more security-minded than she believed possible for it not to come to one conclusion . |