Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] get a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have my doubts about this one but you may in due course get a proposal from him . |
| 2 | The Colonel 's vain attempt to get a word in was so sharply smothered and he looked so rattled that Clarissa sat down again . |
| 3 | So the Inland Revenue gets a bonus the company gets a claw-back and the members get nothing at all . |
| 4 | I urge the hon. Gentleman to get a copy of the Evening Standard every night and to have a look . |
| 5 | As she looked at Millie rocking herself slightly like a little old woman getting a child to sleep , she though , If I were to tell her her mother has died , she would likely think it was the same way as her father had , whichever way that was , which was n't real dead . |
| 6 | And not until mid-1993 will any incoming government get a chance to tinker with the existing composition of the Board of Governors . |
| 7 | And Weir will have to be in top form to get a decision over the Dublin champion who could well be his bogey and the host Association 's best bet to win an Irish title this weekend . |
| 8 | hit the top end get a cross-section o of , but you still get the same , ultimately the same sorts of results erm by , by erm by adopting that policy whereas if you go for trying to draw distinctions , you end up erm |
| 9 | Some clients use research surveys mainly as a publicity tool , an easy way to get a newspaper headline , as an insurance company did with a Gallup survey on the cost of raising children . |
| 10 | ‘ Each cost centre manager gets a detailed report , and the chief officer gets a summary broken down into cost centres . |
| 11 | and the personal situation now is that economic climate get a house how many are talking here ! |
| 12 | Hard work Got a Christmas due about that as well . |
| 13 | Debt collectors are a third party and that point alone often has enough psychological impact to get a debtor to pay them on their very first approach . |
| 14 | She really should have treated the whole tank for white spot , not isolated her fish ( see this month 's article on Koi diseases ) , and was lucky no to get a recurrence . |
| 15 | A JOBLESS Tory voter got a letter from 10 Downing Street yesterday telling him things are looking up . |
| 16 | Occasionally , however , shortly after organic life got a toehold , Earth 's surface water may have evaporated by frequent asteroid impacts , which had the effect of sterilizing large areas of the globe , according to a group of American geophysicists based in California . |
| 17 | That 's where Sonic Youth got a lot of ideas from , because their guitarist Lee Renaldo actually used to play with Glenn Branca and in a way it 's Sonic Youth that took that drone style into pop music . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm lucky , but few single people have homes of their own and it 's illegal for an unmarried couple to get a room in a hotel . |
| 19 | What the Russians thought of their rough but kindly guide it is impossible to say ; but he grinned , and exclaimed in amazement as he tried in vain , with a stumpy pencil to get a list of their names , and then sympathetically remarked , as he looked at their wan faces , ‘ There is no wonder at the chaps being ill ; even their names is all coughs and sneezes ’ . |
| 20 | With 156 passengers representing a full trainload , and high-season tickets ( end of May — end of July ) selling at £320 , one does not have to be a brilliant mathematician to get a grasp of the kind of revenue being earned . |
| 21 | Men and women work all day and at the end of the week those in waged work get a wage packet which does n't buy much more than the necessities of life . |
| 22 | It 's difficult for a Black girl to get a credit card . |
| 23 | And we had terrible job getting a contract off him . |
| 24 | That same stupid person got a Master System 2 for his birthday and went out and bought two £33 games for the Mega Drive . |
| 25 | A TALENTED teenager gets a kick out of football but is also hitting a high note as a singer . |
| 26 | Teaming up with the Unanimous Decision Crew he talks us through a languid groove based story of how ‘ hard it is for a black man to get a job ’ , ‘ If you 're black , what 's your destination ? ’ he enquires . |
| 27 | Will your educated daughter get a husband ? |
| 28 | The bespectacled motormouth gets a cover splash on the New York Post for urging black kids to skip school the day his Malcolm X biopic opens , claiming that ‘ the teachers ca n't hold it against them if they write a report on what they see . ’ |
| 29 | If the Prime Minister gets a chance to read it , will he accept that it more accurately reflects the views of the people of Scotland than his Front Bench team does ? |
| 30 | They were a fellow short , and the start of the autumn term is a terrible time to get a replacement . |