Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] get a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society .
2 mind you the trouble is it 's alright in saying that but you see I 've got a bad chest , Philip 's got a bad chest
3 Cos I mean get a good deal
4 I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel .
5 Today I tried to get a whole tin every day , it 's just because it happened .
6 I want some Diet Coke , I want to get a massive thing of Diet Coke .
7 " Hazel , " said Fiver suddenly , " I want to get a clear idea of this Silverweed , but I dare n't go closer by myself .
8 I 'd got a troublesome cough developed , and now looking back through the years , er it would have been a sort of hay-feverish condition that I I have been a bit bothered with .
9 Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over .
10 I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’
11 Well , I thought I 'd got a bloody good hand there .
12 I 'd got a fumbling schoolboy with no more idea of what a girl needed than the man in the moon .
13 I was in bed for a week with concussion and the doctor said at first he thought I 'd got a broken pelvis .
14 But like , it was alright then because like means that you can changed up in this one corner of the changing room all the time and so I 'd got my shirt on while I was putting my T-shirt on like for the reason that my bra strap was bust , not actually because I 'd got a gigantic love bite around my neck !
15 I would , if I 'd got a fast car and I 'd lost my dreams .
16 I was told I 'd got a little girl , then I heard her crying .
17 So I worked down here and nights up there preparing it and all round this , this place was coat hooks and that , where they all hung their things and I had to knock them down , you know what I mean , and fix me own benches up and er I 'd got a little treadle lather and er sufficient for me to start .
18 Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses .
19 How did you guess I 'd got a secret plan ? ’
20 Ready for the op on the Saturday , and Friday I st started to sneeze , they took me temperature , I 'd got a cold , between , it took us a fortnight and and , for the operation to come through it , common cold .
21 In a few weeks time , I hope to get a short spell of leave , and I mean to devote it exclusively to literary work .
22 All they want to know is : am I going to get a good bottom turn ? ’
23 When was I going to get a proper job , and if I did n't , or could n't , when was I going to get married and settle down . ’
24 In the end I decide to get a big cup of coffee and a jam doughnut .
25 ‘ I 'm a photographer , not a billionaire , so I needed to get a good idea going to pay for it all .
26 Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling .
27 I managed to get a full tank .
28 Yes , they were quite an elite band of brothers , but it was possible to break into the circle , and eventually by a stroke of luck and a bit of help from one of Vincent 's crew who took pity on me , I managed to get a short spell of leave relief on HMRC Vincent .
29 I do get a social life out of it .
30 ‘ Well , I did get a terrible cold after Christmas . ’
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