Example sentences of "[noun prp] had get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if David had got this evening to catch a bottle of wine |
| 2 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 3 | Inside the baker 's , Maisie had got involved in a complicated negotiation with the shopkeeper . |
| 4 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 5 | Donald had got four sponge rolls , three jumbo packets of cornflakes , five loaves of bread , some digestive biscuits , a square packet of something called Uncle Sam ‘ s Chocolate Chip Cookies , a Battenburg cake and two mixed , assorted crisps , in bags that were the size of a small dustbin . |
| 6 | So , he was in London on some business or other and had simply dropped by to tell her that Jeff and Silvia had got engaged . |
| 7 | Eileen said the traffic along Roundhill Road had got worse since she started as a lollipop lady ten years ago , adding : ‘ I do n't know what will happen when the cattle market comes here . ’ |
| 8 | Good job Tom had got all the horses in , though . |
| 9 | If free-market conditions had generally prevailed , and if the BEA had got all the investment resources it required at low interest rates , this conclusion would be unassailable . |
| 10 | By this time Lewis was off into a fantasy in which a girl Adam had got pregnant had been abandoned by him with their child at Wyvis Hall where she had later been murdered by a sinister caretaker . |
| 11 | I also heard that a party of girls from Bishop 's Home orphanage school in Rangoon had got stranded at Katha and I was able to send a telegram to Jack Cardew of the Burma Railways asking him to extricate them and get them on a train to Myitkyina . |
| 12 | She asked for news of Robin and Jenny , and Aunt Sarah launched into an ironic description of how a Japanese tourist half Jenny 's size and four times her age had proposed marriage to her ( ’ At least I hope it was marriage ’ ) , and how Robin had got locked overnight in the bar of the hotel where he was working and had taken two days to sleep it off ; and gradually Ruth fought down her feelings . |
| 13 | George enjoyed military detail and Maxim had got lucky with the library . |
| 14 | as though God had got tired of His landscapes . |
| 15 | The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed . |
| 16 | Mrs Funnell had got used to this form of greeting , but it was n't known whether she appreciated it or not . |
| 17 | And when Jenny had got ill , she had been willful again , told herself she could manage to get her better without having the doctor to see her . |
| 18 | Should have said no , Ju I had three in there but our Corrinne had got some . |
| 19 | The vet also explained Luke had to get some weight off and instructed me to change his diet of cooked chicken and switch to a dried food called Eukanuba . |
| 20 | But then , I mean , it was quite common , that the Prince of Wales had got several ladies . |
| 21 | He seems not to have whined , and his only complaint , posthumously recorded by Bunting in his obituary of Pound , is drily judicious : he ‘ said in the Thirties that Eliot had got stuck because he could not understand Propertius [ i.e. Pound 's Homage ] and ill the rest had not stuck a few books earlier still ’ . |
| 22 | Thought the referee was a bit hasty pulling player back cos Leicester had got good possession . |