Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] get a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel . |
| 2 | Today I tried to get a whole tin every day , it 's just because it happened . |
| 3 | I 'd got a troublesome cough developed , and now looking back through the years , er it would have been a sort of hay-feverish condition that I I have been a bit bothered with . |
| 4 | Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over . |
| 5 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
| 6 | Well , I thought I 'd got a bloody good hand there . |
| 7 | I 'd got a fumbling schoolboy with no more idea of what a girl needed than the man in the moon . |
| 8 | I was in bed for a week with concussion and the doctor said at first he thought I 'd got a broken pelvis . |
| 9 | But like , it was alright then because like means that you can changed up in this one corner of the changing room all the time and so I 'd got my shirt on while I was putting my T-shirt on like for the reason that my bra strap was bust , not actually because I 'd got a gigantic love bite around my neck ! |
| 10 | I would , if I 'd got a fast car and I 'd lost my dreams . |
| 11 | I was told I 'd got a little girl , then I heard her crying . |
| 12 | So I worked down here and nights up there preparing it and all round this , this place was coat hooks and that , where they all hung their things and I had to knock them down , you know what I mean , and fix me own benches up and er I 'd got a little treadle lather and er sufficient for me to start . |
| 13 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 14 | How did you guess I 'd got a secret plan ? ’ |
| 15 | Ready for the op on the Saturday , and Friday I st started to sneeze , they took me temperature , I 'd got a cold , between , it took us a fortnight and and , for the operation to come through it , common cold . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm a photographer , not a billionaire , so I needed to get a good idea going to pay for it all . |
| 17 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 18 | ‘ I managed to get a full tank . |
| 19 | Yes , they were quite an elite band of brothers , but it was possible to break into the circle , and eventually by a stroke of luck and a bit of help from one of Vincent 's crew who took pity on me , I managed to get a short spell of leave relief on HMRC Vincent . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I did get a terrible cold after Christmas . ’ |
| 21 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 22 | She participated in the founding of the League of Nations and was on the Council , though she failed to get a racial equality clause inserted in the League 's charter . |
| 23 | I thought you 'd got a raging battle going on in your front room . |
| 24 | And you 'd got you 'd got a tremendous buildup you know of er of enthusiasm , of determination you see , er and obviously er people wanted to give er expression to their support to the maximum . |
| 25 | Here , I heard you 'd got a young lady stayin' with yer . ’ |
| 26 | And er and when that was been in the field whatever days , depending on the weather , if you 'd got a good dry summer well you 'd perhaps take it in in after a week , you see ? |
| 27 | And if you 'd got a good suit , you 'd take that , then fetch it out for the weekend , so they 'd looked decent , and when you took it back on Monday and he said I 'll have to drop you on that , Ah , so you wo n't this week . |
| 28 | clip of the ear , nothing like that , but if if you 'd got a black eye . |
| 29 | telling everybody like you 'd got a festered back |
| 30 | And you 'd got a little bit of plaster you , you could show the court the next morning , he was going to prison . |