Example sentences of "[adv] got [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outside world has suddenly got a foothold here . |
| 2 | ‘ Such hard luck on him — to find he 'd suddenly got a wife who was all the things he loathes — hysterical , difficult , clinging … |
| 3 | Well if they can afford to buy in help and to sort their life out , you 've suddenly got a product that they really want to buy . |
| 4 | Going out to the battlefields , Olid Edis wanted some mark of her identity and so got a badge ‘ NWM ’ which she put on a cap . |
| 5 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 6 | Particularly where you 've more or less got the idea of it but you think you just want to sort of tidy up a few details an |
| 7 | I 've only got a bit of French and German so I can help you with the essay if you like . |
| 8 | You could spend weeks pedalling up and over the North York Moors , but if you 've only got a weekend to spare , then the Rosedale area is without doubt the place to go . |
| 9 | offices as well , but erm , and I know she 's half time and some offices have only got a quarter , but as I say , she 's the busiest person I know and , and she 's |
| 10 | I 've only got a part time back up you see |
| 11 | Whatever they like bottom of the River Trent if you like but it would be very going off the subject and I 've only got a minute or two to spare but what someone pointed out to me that terrible monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal subway and every time I pass I fume inwardly . |
| 12 | But he gave a ton payment , and the old guy only got a shock , so where 's the harm ? |
| 13 | Right you 've only got a wheeze there 's no evidence of |
| 14 | So you 've only got a choice of two there . |
| 15 | So like , you 've only got a day and a half have n't you ? |
| 16 | That 's why he 's only got a boy |
| 17 | Very light surgery this morning : I have n't to be in Chollerton until two and I 've only got a couple of calls to make . |
| 18 | erm , wo n't you start again because you 'd only got a couple of minutes into it , had n't you ? |
| 19 | If you 've only got a couple of hours , best make the most of them . ’ |
| 20 | I 've only got a couple that I did last week . |
| 21 | I 've only got a couple of loaves . |
| 22 | So oh I 've only got a year . |
| 23 | Brain of Britain — I 'm struggling with todays Sun crossword — I know it 's embarrassing but I 've only got a degree in Chemistry and we all know that chemistry students are amongst other things the partners of defenders with no brains , i.e Weatherall and Newsome . |
| 24 | It 's only got a bed in the bedroom you |
| 25 | The effect of the maxim is to add to most utterances a pragmatic inference to the effect that the statement presented is the strongest , or most informative , that can be made in the situation ; in many cases the implicatures can be glossed by adding only to the propositional content of the sentence , e.g. " Nigel has only fourteen children " , " the flag is only white " , " Harry only got a fine " . |
| 26 | I 've only got a metal jug as well , and that 's no use for a microwave . |
| 27 | But the butchers shop was er a very well known shop , and er I remember very well we used to go into there er of course when things were re were really poor , you 'd go into the butchers shop in the middle of the week perhaps about Thursday and erm they used to sell they used to cook their own meats then of course you know , pressed beef and all that sort of thing and I remember this beautiful big white erm well it 'd be a ceramic dish affair on a stand , used to have a big piece of this pressed beef in it , cutting it off , and all the little bits used to fall round the side , well them come Thursday when only got a shilling in your pocket or your parents had got a couple of shillings left , you got to fetch two pennyworth of the bits of the pressed beef that had fallen round the pan , and that was a meal . |
| 28 | He 's only got a beat up old Metro . |
| 29 | I 've only got a note I 'm sorry . |
| 30 | Whether the parents planted a cedar tree in honour of the occasion , as another custom dictated ( girls only got a pine tree ! ) we do not know , but we can rest assured that the salutation-prayer was made with particular relish for this first son of a first son : ‘ A boy is born into the world ; a blessing has come into the world . ’ |