Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nuremberg 's cultural head has got religion and the politicians do n't like it |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman has got hold of the wrong end of the stick . |
| 3 | Moreover — and more fundamentally — this way of thinking about Human Liberation has got things backwards . |
| 4 | It would have been a good excuse to use to get Mr Parnham off his back . |
| 5 | My poor mother had got corns on across her her knuckles , right to the very day she died , from scrubbing for different people , and skivvying , up there . |
| 6 | She was wearing trousers and as she kept her feet on the ground she felt reasonably secure , at least ; she kept her toes on the ground and spent a rather hilarious time trying to get control of it in the courtyard , her attempts bringing Marguerite out with words of advice and wide smiles . |
| 7 | But builders fear neither the Tories nor Labour could find the money for the much bigger public works pro gramme needed to get construction moving . |
| 8 | Sweet and sour sauce has got loads and loads of sugar in it . |
| 9 | By February the local press had got wind of the affair . |