Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 2 | So I fell for it and I volunteered for the Guards , but after a week , they decided I , I 'd got flat feet which was n't very good for slamming your foot down as the guards demanded in those days . |
| 3 | First of all Mum thought I was anorexic and then she thought I 'd got thyroid trouble . |
| 4 | I began to get cold feet , but these other two guys were totally positive and they were absolutely right . |
| 5 | I know it 's something a Samaritan would consider unprofessional , but I enjoyed getting verbal queerbashers to hang up on me because they could n't handle what I was telling them . |
| 6 | After a while I started to get official letters threatening to send me to prison if I did n't find work . |
| 7 | As soon as I 'd woken up , I started to get strange pains in my stomach . |
| 8 | I kept getting different answers . |
| 9 | And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal , like a magic lantern slide . |
| 10 | I , I , I think they probably believed that , that , that the best way to get into socialism was to begin to create socialist elements from the start , that would facilitate the move erm and once you 'd got full control , I mean this is where , where there might be kind of bits you can say that once , once we , we need to make these assurances to get us out of feudalism . |
| 11 | I do n't see how they can justify I mean , anybody , unless you 'd got mega bucks |
| 12 | So she could n't go out to work cos she 'd got young girls to bring up so they went to the social and the social turned round and said to them before we give you any money you 've got ta spend all this bloody redundancy you 've got ta have used all your savings , including the kids savings , and you 've got ta have nothing ! |
| 13 | She 'd got certain areas that she 'd got . |
| 14 | She 'd got built-in babysitting facilities . |
| 15 | And she 'd got modern ideas , and all — about married women being slaves , and what not — though to my way of thinking it 's always a toss-up which is the slave . |
| 16 | Well she co and cor , do you know she 'd got beautiful nails ! |
| 17 | Those outside the card-playing school viewed her suspiciously because she seemed to get embarrassing crushes on a few of her colleagues . |
| 18 | You , you did get funny things like that that er that sort of rather lightened things . |
| 19 | If a girl had two parents still at home , she had to get written permission from both of them before performing . |
| 20 | Well now then you had to get different spaces for to here . |
| 21 | For a moment or two she sat watching a breeze ruffle the calm surface of the hotel pool — the bright blue water was so inviting that the moment you got out you wanted to get straight back in again . |
| 22 | Er I was in the credit and I was with a large group of people there and they seemed very happy and I think we were fair , we 'd got good conditions . |
| 23 | Of course we 'd got good excuse . |
| 24 | We had good sailing weather until we reached the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa , where we landed to get fresh water . |
| 25 | In Section 3.7 we managed to get simple expressions for the magnetic field far away from the ring and in the vicinity of the axis . |
| 26 | Er and not many fresh eggs but we did get dried eggs which were , were , it was n't a bad substitute but it was n't the same as a fresh egg but you could scramble them and you could use them for cooking but then you see there was very little fat . |
| 27 | We had to get other people to finish off the work . ’ |
| 28 | And th th and they would be police ones if they 'd got blue lights and |
| 29 | And these stewardesses you know , they 're only just tall and ordinary you know well they they 'd got black tights , got black'uns on you know , all wore black'uns . |
| 30 | Oh Marks and Spencers when I buy those croissants they 'd got hot cross buns on sale . |