Example sentences of "[noun] have get [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Marcus has got loads of ideas going through his head
2 So I reckon ( hope ! ) the Guardian has got hold of this off some Derby source who is talking out the back of their heads .
3 Now that Travis had got hold of the scent he would be like a bloodhound , and there was no knowing what Lori would inadvertently reveal .
4 His retreat was , however , purely tactical , for the hunter had got wind of his quarry and from early 1869 he began to lay his traps , with the certain knowledge that he was on the right track .
5 Marie 's got loads of friends , and they all came to say goodbye .
6 The mercenaries had to get hold of their horses somewhere in Fife , and there were always distractions .
7 To her mind , these proved conclusively that Marius had decided to change his will in her favour , and that Nigel had got wind of this and forestalled his father 's plans by killing him .
8 Er , Simon 's got copies of some , yeah , but they 're the bizarre things as well .
9 There was a secret somewhere , though , that Thérèse had to get hold of and understand .
10 The hon. Gentleman has got hold of the wrong end of the stick .
11 Beneath that was a leaflet with the number of the switchboard ( 837 7324 ) and then eight pamphlets dealing with sexual hygiene , four of them coming from America , ones which Madame had got hold of before anyone else .
12 I was n't sure I wanted to hear any more , but Oliver had got hold of my sleeve again .
13 The comparative simplicity of the equipment and the fact that it 's so easy to transport and launch has got loads of newcomers out onto the water .
14 You come , you go to Ireland and you , you might come in , on a lovely sunny day like this and you get half way over and you 've go yo you think Jesus Christ has got hold of you !
15 From somewhere Fergal had got hold of a bottle of hooch , and the three eldest sat round the kitchen table getting their first taste of hard liquor , and smoking their way through a packet of Camel cigarettes , while Ellie and Patsy , locked into the room with them , were forced to watch .
16 How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles .
17 Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’
18 This man has got hold of her , and the family 's been looking everywhere .
19 De Gaulle had got wind of the Allied invasion plan in August 1942 , but he was probably unaware of its full political implications .
20 The Microprocessor Report has gotten wind of at least one other low-cost , low-power R4000 derivative in the works beside the NEC/MIPS VRX .
21 One day Leonie 's employer had got wind of what was going on , sacked Leonie and placed a telephone call to Victor Nicholson , the ignorant , ill-tempered manufacturer Hugo was contracted to at the time .
22 Peter Arnold had got hold of some copies to sell in Brighton on his own initiative .
23 I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open
24 It was a bit late for that , since the press had got hold of the story anyway .
25 By February the local press had got wind of the affair .
26 then you go , er Val 's got places of interest booked in her place where if she 's gone somewhere like , if she comes home and got ta a little book in the cupboard she might then , then the place , follow the road to the
27 Or , The Fourniers have got hold of a rare bird , you know .
28 dad 's got loads of old ones , what he use
29 Anyway , as I see it now , if the authorities have got wind of her havin' a youngster , we 'll have some of them officials and the do-gooders comin' round , and it 'll be the workhouse in the end . ’
30 Jim 's got books of stamps .
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