Example sentences of "[Wh pn] get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , some of the older countries , who got a history of calm and stability , they have Anthems which try to bring out the beauty of the country . |
| 2 | The fastest man received a bottle of champagne compared to the fastest woman who got a bottle of wine for her efforts . |
| 3 | In that year , 1955 , when McCarthy was of no more consequence , twenty-two witnesses plucked up courage not to testify , including the folk singer , Pete Seeger , who got a year in jail for his stand . |
| 4 | The tormented tycoon , who got a £1.26million pay-off eight months ago , failed to find another job . |
| 5 | one or two on the island here who got a bit for the that er damage with the storm . |
| 6 | Laura , who got a Nintendo Super Mario World computer games-system for Christmas last year , said she loved reading Roald Dahl classics such as ‘ The Big Friendly Giant ’ and ‘ Witches ’ before going to sleep at night . |
| 7 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |
| 8 | The most influential philosopher to think about the problem of the ownership of empty land , John Locke , served as a secretary and adviser to yet another of the courtier-backed expansion schemes of Charles II 's reign ; he was agent to Lord Ashley , who later on as Lord Shaftesbury became a famous Whig leader but in 1663 was a well-placed courtier and one of a group who got a charter for a colony south of Virginia to be called Carolina . |
| 9 | who got a paper for me to read out , then . |
| 10 | Alan Hinkes was reportedly one who got a lift and carried down , while Mick Fowler watched from the South East Gully . |
| 11 | But my message to anybody else who gets a knock on the door from somebody who calls themselves an antique dealer is never , ever let them in . ’ |
| 12 | He says it 's not everyone who gets a chance to represent their country . |
| 13 | Actually I think somebody who gets a CSE grade 1 has to be very good , far better than somebody who can only just scrape an ‘ O ’ level grade C … |
| 14 | Taking on the Runcorn betting shop cashier is Charlton 's Steve Gritt who gets a 20-metre start . |
| 15 | He was very different from the sort of person who gets a job and then a better job and promotion and a wife ; two children , a boy and a girl , a house , a better house , a car and all the rest of it . |
| 16 | The only character who shows any internal conflict or dramatic progress is Sohy who gets a glimpse of Westernised freedom ( symbolised by the abandonment of her veil ) but who can not easily shake off a lifetime of enslavement . |
| 17 | I 've got it — Frank gives a lift to Bev who gets a timeshare in Spain off Ron after a blackmail job with the naughty snaps . |
| 18 | Meetings once again I have to say the old , old chestnut please can we start at eight o' clock er we 're getting new members who get a bit discouraged when we have a late start . |
| 19 | Anyway I gather from my office cleaner that tickets from Oxford are now on sale to their season ticket holders and members , and will be on sale soon to public people who get a voucher from this saturday 's game . |
| 20 | Derek , of The Avenue , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough said : ‘ Death Of A Gasholder is about a poetry gang who get a grant from the local authority . |
| 21 | Well done too to all ten of our third prize winners who get a Caribou daysack . |