Example sentences of "[conj] he get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Why has the image of farming gone from one where the farmer was respected as the provider of food for the nation to one where he gets enormous subsidies to produce food mountains and is a burden on the taxpayer ?
2 Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock .
3 I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away .
4 " Harry , see that he gets some heat on that shoulder right away . "
5 I 'm told that unit sales should normally yield about three times the building costs , and that he gets this back within three to five years .
6 Lineker added : ‘ It was great that he got that goal so late in the game , to produce a vital result for his side .
7 I was able to arrange that U Khin Zaw , working in the Burmese section of the BBC , should return to be in charge of broadcasting , and in the meantime to ensure that he got some experience of the drama , music and talks departments .
8 The authorities arrested him so he got that kind of and erm and then they started to ask him questions .
9 And erm I had lots of jobs there , what the cruel job there really in the meantime , he was very pleased with my work , so he got another land girl , it was cheap labour .
10 But Ryan decided that he 'd have his head shaved at the back of his head , so he got this boy to write his name on .
11 And he got other encouragements .
12 And he got one arm out of his jamas !
13 The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights .
14 Ben has also been giving those Yorkshire boys a good seeing-to with an on-sight flash of Kleptomanis ( F8a ) at the Holywood Bowl , a one-day ascent of the Yorkshire Ripper ( F8b ) at Kilnsey , and he got Magnetic Fields ( F8a/8a+ ) first red-point .
15 Naturally , he told his friends and this other man went along too and he got some pills .
16 And he got some packages made but unfortunately he did n't patent the idea because what he actually was made what he actually made was random access memories .
17 He took it in the pub and he got three quarts of beer ; and he had to lay a penny down and bought me a bottle of pop .
18 And he stood there and he got three quarts o' beer into him .
19 and they say film industry department , Wakefield somewhere got John 's name out of the blue , so that , do n't know anything else about it because he 's , he 's always been seen by you know , this , this other company , and he got three tax eighty seven , eighty eight , eighty eight , eighty nine , ninety , and one what , were the estimate was twenty five thousand pounds , and five thousand pounds
20 and he got this job lot of perfume , and he said oh I can shot these out over the next few years , I said , oh if you really want to .
21 Anyway he come down and he got this box with disks in
22 My father worked in a market and he got big bundles of it very cheaply .
23 and he got same time as I did .
24 He stuck hi and he get that wound up towards the end I felt sorry for the poor little soul !
25 So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him !
26 that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits
27 And so quickly he makes his way to the gate of the city as we 've said , and he gets this man he sits down with the te with the te , with the ten elders who would be witnesses and the kinsman arrives .
28 And until he gets real power he 'll make do with deference — subservience even .
29 Denis O'Neil was determined to keep going until he got that son !
30 it really was So erm but I do n't know , I , I think if Jim got a ticket , if he got two tickets and he said do you wan na come ?
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