Example sentences of "[pers pn] get [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Friend of yours got a little shot up yesterday , or do n't you read the papers ? ’
2 Although I asked various qualified people if soil altered the flavour of wine from the same grape variety and district I got no clear answer
3 I got no neat story for you , Rufus , but this is what we have so far . ’
4 There was a spring in my step and when Craig Brewster played a nice through ball into the box , my old legs managed to carry me there and I got a second goal that I did n't expect . ’
5 I got a bloody nose over that , ’ he says .
6 I got a bloody letter
7 ‘ But at least I got a terrific interview .
8 I got a bigger ball .
9 Well that I I us I got a better rate of exchange out in S A than I did here .
10 I 'm writing on something rather obscure — I got a pitiful advance
11 I got a stupid feeling I just moved that pawn again .
12 The thought of creeping along in a car behind an old woman pushing a pram full of nettles did n't appeal so , mentioning a pressing engagement , I got a garbled set of directions and bade her good day .
13 And I got a separate receipt for Andrew for his hundred and twenty so we 're up wi the receipts .
14 I got a dirty bit on the back .
15 We were n't enclosed long enough for it to become worrying and I got a real adrenaline rush when at one point one side of the passage was replaced by empty space leading to a huge open chamber .
16 Last week I got a real corker
17 Whittingham says : ‘ I got a real stamina bank built up during the summer and , once I started scoring goals , my self-confidence was sky-high .
18 That is when I got a real bee in my bonnet about British restaurants .
19 I got a real complex a couple of years ago .
20 I got a real feeling of class anger and class loyalty , of belonging to a class , even .
21 When I left in here at the when the receivers come in I got a wee job in Centre , up the town , and I had , I could have got a job in a hosiery in but I did n't fancy travelling down there , so I took that wee job up there .
22 When I got to know the two men well I got a visual image of these judgements — Lenin , solid and stocky , advancing at an even pace , and the slight figure of Bukharin galloping off in front , but always needing to feel Lenin 's presence .
23 Oh , I ca n't think of her name now cos I got a mental block .
24 I got a rough idea of who erm we 're kind of er playing contact .
25 I got a two-tine fork and shoved it into the bull 's neck and shouted .
26 So eventually I got a temporary job , er in ni end of sixty , which lasted til er February sixty one .
27 Yeah , he said I got a thousand pound well I 'll ring around , he said I got a thousand o off my , I saved a thousand pounds on my roof he said I thought bloody hell , how much cost costing him !
28 After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London .
29 The father moved in and I got a full-time job in another engineering company .
30 And he took me home , er he gave me a good talking to , and tell me dad , cos me , I nearly , I got a good hiding , was going to get a good hiding from me dad , until this policeman says , do n't worry , he says er , you wo n't hear anything about it .
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