Example sentences of "[vb past] get an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wake of a media flare-up over community advice agencies refusing to advise National Front activists , which affected both Union and the organization , a number of friends and colleagues , including us , took the issue to our National Conference and helped to get an anti-racism motion through . |
| 2 | What she could have done without when she went into her office was to answer the phone and hear Jimmy Webb ring in to ask if she could do without him as he 'd got an upset stomach . |
| 3 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 4 | and she said , she 'd got an electric cooker , can I finish cooking me tea on your cooker , huh , said it went off earlier than we thought I mean it was n't |
| 5 | Do n't you wish you 'd got an electric one now ? |
| 6 | It was while she was wiping her face that she began to get an uncanny feeling that she was being watched . |
| 7 | The rapid development of PACs started to get an increased level of press coverage in the 1982 elections and there were growing calls for reform . |
| 8 | Nothing daunted , the reactor personnel managed to get an extra pump working by the space-age technique of forcing open a valve and jamming it with a steel plate , though this had the distinct disadvantage of immobilising all of the other safety systems . |
| 9 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly the threat of library dissolutions , especially those which librarians were claiming had been forced on them by government cut-backs , failed to get an immediate response from Mrs Thatcher 's administration . |
| 11 | He failed to get an expected promotion and started drinking heavily . |
| 12 | We did get an occasional glimpse of the sun towards the end of the month , and it was so welcome for even our ambulance station had been put out of action , and it was not easy to get patients moved before the next batch came . |
| 13 | Bateman was unable to put his name on the League scorers ' list in spite of 32 appearances but he did get an important goal for Palace that season . |
| 14 | As far as other union members ' attitude towards us , I think that we did get an enormous amount of support from like-minded colleagues in organizing around issues of race and sexuality . |
| 15 | Where Annie had got an average degree , taught English ‘ O ’ Level , married Mike and had Sally and Alex , settling in London , Sheila had sailed close to the fringes of student politics in the late 1960s , been arrested for demonstrations against the American presence in Vietnam in the war which ended in the early 1970s , squatted with the squatters , and done a variety of part-time nomadic jobs . |
| 16 | You know the kind that if you lived in a house which had got an uneven floor when you opened the door the wardrobe falls over towards you . |
| 17 | and we came to look at this one and it had got an inner hall and in the position was |