Example sentences of "got a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily we were still in time to get into the RADA auditions , which I did and got a letter from them saying ‘ not only are you rejected but we strongly advise you to think about another career ’ . |
| 2 | For example : ‘ In 1931 we got a new P[arish] P[riest] . |
| 3 | He dismissively described how this man had ‘ come in , taken the material provided , and then had written a childish and critical book on the police , out of which he got a Ph.D . ’ |
| 4 | you got a date then , darling ? |
| 5 | — But Sheila moved down to London with Bob and she got a job no bother . |
| 6 | — You got a job yet ? — Yes . |
| 7 | Once satisfied , I got a large cardboard carton and broke it open so that the development could be accurately drawn . |
| 8 | He has sold organic wines for the past five years , ever since he got a licence . |
| 9 | The examiners finished the bottle and I got a distinction . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The night he disappeared I got a call from a woman who said she 'd taken him because he looked abandoned , ’ Arkie explained . |
| 11 | The staff were polite but when asked why there was no sign on the shop door , we got a rather unsatisfactory answer . |
| 12 | Max took an instant dislike to her and from then on , when she tried to speak , he would howl like a wolf and I got a dreadful fit of the giggles ! |
| 13 | Holwell got a second after the interval with the Exmouth captain , Rosie Goodridge , pulling one back in the last minute . |
| 14 | And if the form book is to be believed , Nashwan is clearly No. 1 because Ile De Nisky finished seven and a half lengths behind him at Epsom , but got a length nearer to Old Vic at The Curragh . |
| 15 | Significantly , it got a laugh but did n't shut the lady up . |
| 16 | Planning got a bad name through trying to do too much . |
| 17 | Another of the better northern horses , Jimmy FitzGerald 's Sapience , got a taste of future assignments when he had to plough through two miles of softening ground in the Jockey Club Cup . |
| 18 | They got a point without Robson in Stockholm . |
| 19 | It was disturbing to hear the manager remind questioners of what happened when he made ‘ sensible ’ experiments in Saudi Arabia late last year : ‘ We got a 1-1 draw and a nasty headline . ’ |
| 20 | The poor Chinese footballers understandably got a coolish reception in their World Cup qualifying tournament here , especially as they spoilt the script by winning their opening match . |
| 21 | I got a bit carried away with the Wogan show and all that . |
| 22 | She got a better deal , to be fair , out of the Common Market , because she was so difficult . |
| 23 | If the Brigade was still around the village and things got a bit quieter I would keep that date , and treat them to British steak and kidney , etc . |
| 24 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 25 | Yeats recalls receiving a letter from Lionel Johnson ‘ denouncing Wilde with great bitterness ’ ; Johnson believed that Wilde got a ‘ ‘ sense of triumph and power , at every dinner-table he dominated , from the knowledge that he was guilty of that sin which , more than any other possible to man , would turn all those people against him if they but knew'' ’ ( Yeats , Autobiographies , 285 ) . |
| 26 | For a bit of fun before we went back to London we got a boat trip round the harbour . |
| 27 | We got a name , we left Riverside and we slung Wally out of the band . |
| 28 | She got a cardigan and walked him all the way out the lane . |
| 29 | Then I got a job in a laundry . |
| 30 | ‘ After that I told Sir Alfred of my plans for a monocoque car for the next season , and got a sour letter back saying we had to win another grand prix before we talked about anything . |