Example sentences of "[pers pn] get a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The Steve Cropper connection came about because he and I got a chance to get reacquainted with one another down in Seville at the Guitar Legends concerts .
2 I got a bloke to see about some business . ’
3 Cos I , I , know , I know it means roughly in common terms cos , I got a sister to interpret it .
4 I got , I got , I got a number to choose from , certainly yes , yes , yes , yes .
5 Then , a few days after I got back from Oxford , I got a telegram to say I had a scholarship .
6 And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day .
7 So I got a manual to help me .
8 When I first started , I got a paper to go to Rose Hill Station on Scotland Road .
9 I got a letter to say dad was in hospital and we had a buzz bomb and it was n't too bad and er do n't worry .
10 And I 'm watching all this and thinking , ‘ Jeez , have I got a lot to learn . ’
11 Not every day I get a chance to pick up that kind of money for doing practically nothing . ’
12 ‘ I hope I get a chance to taste one of her sausage rolls . ’
13 We visit the charming sheep and I get a chance to wear my wellingtons after all .
14 If I get a chance to look at it .
15 I get a maid to come in and do it for me .
16 Eleven o'clock — I get a book to read and then write about it .
17 ‘ Do n't I get a chance to have a quiet few minutes with poor old Sarella ? ’
18 Th th then , there the field , if you got a field to turn it out in , provide hay ever day , buy tons of hay for it , that 's alright .
19 You got a warrant to bust in here ? ’
20 If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that .
21 Der , der you got a tape to tape at home Mark ?
22 It would do the boys good to see how she got a qualification to teach people recovering from illness and so on ( and they are paid by health insurance companies , so it is well structured and she actually gets paid reasonably ) .
23 She got a contract to turn her thesis on the Industrial Novel into a book , and settled enthusiastically to the task .
24 Cruel shook up , she is now , like as you do n't need to be no doctor to see , but she were n't shook up when she got a job to do ! ’
25 Have you got a tape to tape at home ?
26 So each time you come across one have you got a notebook to write things in .
27 ‘ Hell 's teeth , have you got a lot to learn ! ’
28 ‘ Have n't you got a thing to wear , darling ? ’
29 ‘ That 's true , but neither have you got a reason to shield the person who tried to kill me . ’
30 And you go to the local housing agency er the , the council housing agency , and you get a grant to help you with your rent .
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