Example sentences of "[noun prp] get [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 William got two oars ready , and waited for the next wave .
2 And even though the courtesy coaches which run three times a week to Ierapetra and Sitia got booked days in advance , local buses were reliable and cheap .
3 Salah Muhammad got seven girls to stay at school by using his position as headmaster , by his qualities of character — his fundamental reasonableness , his doggedness in persuasion — — and by his skill in diplomacy .
4 The court sentenced Colonel Rolando Cabezas of the Republican Guard police to 15 years for murder , while Lieutenant Javier Marquina got seven years .
5 A POLICE hotline set up to take calls about a rave party in Stafford got two complaints — about the noise from a police helicopter .
6 Brian Williams and Ken Brierley got late goals for Liverpool at Charlton , but by then the Reds were three down and lost 3-2 .
7 I du n no Paul Paulie Paulie got any patches like that ?
8 Branfoot said : ‘ Wright got two hat-tricks against us last season , so this was our best performance — even if things were getting quite excitable out there . ’
9 MADGE GETS some sticks
10 MADGE GETS some sticks
11 Susan Stranks competed with Reg Varney to get those hormones whizzing round your Brutus Oxford bag hot pants .
12 Ruthie got five marks for that did n't she ?
13 McLoughlin giving Ireland the trip to the USA with his 1–1 equalizer vs Northern Ireland — he came on as a substitute — meaning that Ireland left Denmark at home — same points , same goal difference — but Ireland got more goals
14 Is that on the cards , or has Unesco got some rules that he is going to enforce after all ?
15 Courtauld gets new prints & drawings study room
16 Denmark gets special opt-outs on a single currency and a common defence policy .
17 In 1978 two friends in Benghazi , in their late teens or early twenties , decided to go to Zliten to get some dates : one boy came from there and had family there ; the other , Nuri , son of a Zuwayi policeman , was to provide the motor vehicle .
18 Has Melanie got some skates ?
19 Helen got some trolls from somewhere .
20 Vennard got 18 months for ‘ a deliberate and dangerous act ’ and Smillie was sent to prison for nine months .
21 Divine intervention might also have allowed him two straightforward chances ; a top-edged hook off Ambrose when on 22 spiralled to long-leg where Walsh got both hands to it without holding onto it , and at 66 , two balls after the end of his 125- run second wicket partnership with Wessels , he edged Patrick Patterson and Williams made a hash of a regulation catch .
22 Mr Tiller got these Girls from Manchester , they were the lowest of the low .
23 Ted got occasional letters , written in a rush and saying almost nothing .
24 She walked to Zeena , Zeena got any scissors ?
25 It was n't you who helped Mr get some trousers on that was done by the C I D when they arrived ?
26 Even that did not stop Pugh getting quizzical looks from the referee who asked about his age , so I told him that he was not the Pugh named as sub in the programme but the club mascot .
27 Transportation recommend schemes to Committee ; Designcare or Roadcare get tender documents ready and Inroads build the final product — all part of the Department 's service to the public .
28 This was indeed a triumph ; like most of those who make predictions , Owen got some animals wrong later ( identifying as mammals what turned out to be reptilian remains ) , but connoisseurship is a matter of probabilities rather than certainties .
29 Philip gets top marks for his top-class talks
30 In it , Artisoft Inc 's LANtastic gets top marks in the the peer-to-peer category , followed closely by Sun Microsystems Inc 's 10Net .
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