Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a recent Labour national executive meeting the leader of the Labour group in the European Parliament failed to get a seconder from either left or right for a motion to have this whole issue discussed by the party conference . |
| 2 | Both the taxi driver and the privatizer of the police force failed to get a place on the candidates ' list , and the small number of women did proportionately better than the men . |
| 3 | The hardware investment needed to get a Mac capable of running Quark is phenomenal . |
| 4 | The introduction of general management was a vital mechanism for ensuring greater control and demonstrating to the Treasury , Public Accounts and Social Service Committees that the department meant to get a grip on the NHS . |
| 5 | ‘ Our priest managed to get a message out to the King , who sent Miles , Sheriff of Gloucester , to rescue us . |
| 6 | The Norwich City Council wanted to get a licence to be able to sell intoxicants at a new pop centre they were going to open , mainly for young people , and was a member of the Labour Party , incidentally , and and a County Councillor , one of the City Wards , had the cheek to go and oppose the whole of Norwich City Council |
| 7 | The poll tax failed to get a mention . |
| 8 | Swindon Town tried to get a grip but everyone of their chances slipped away … |
| 9 | In Said v. Butt the plaintiff wished to get a ticket for X 's theatre . |
| 10 | The second policeman managed to get a shot off in panic , but before he could take aim properly , one of the skinheads smashed his shoulder with a baseball bat and knocked him down the aisle steps . |
| 11 | ‘ Every single letter , every telephone call and every signature helped to get a reprieve . |
| 12 | So Honey 's owner decided to get a helper to hold a bucket of oats and alfalfa chaff for Honey to eat while she herself mounted her , and this was done in such a relaxed and calm fashion that Honey also remained calm and went on eating . |
| 13 | At Myitkyina we camped out for the night in a mission schoolroom and early next morning managed to get a lift out to the airstrip two miles away . |
| 14 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 15 | As summer continued , life seemed to get a bit easier . |
| 16 | It was bad , the old man had got a secondary in his lung . |
| 17 | just get a beefburger got to get a beefburger . |
| 18 | The police were trying to keep people away from the body , but they were outnumbered and the crowd jostled to get a look . |
| 19 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 20 | Charles Paris was heard to remark cynically that George , having seen that the star had got a deaf-aid , thought he ought to have one too . |
| 21 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 22 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 23 | And if the old boy in the field had got a grudge against the bloke taking it off he used to shove it anywhere so he 'd have to pull it off , instead of following the the seam round , you see ? |
| 24 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 25 | Dairy Crest failed to get a county court injunction preventing Dave Rollings from continuing his doorstep deliveries at Cam , near Dursley , in Gloucestershire . |
| 26 | After a great deal of persuasion , a baby food manufacturer agreed to get a video , which shows transition from breast to bottle-feeding , signed and sub-titled . |
| 27 | And because I kept on asking , my dad started getting a bit funny . |
| 28 | My son did get a job in a button factory and an optician 's but he was laid off from both because of lack of demand . |
| 29 | The young woman was the one who seemed to be ‘ making the running , ’ but if the young chap had got a bit carried away , no doubt he would have been hauled up to court . |
| 30 | And in those days erm I , the Co-op had got a building society as well you see , so it all tied up and I think mother , you know , I , I think it was a very good shop , I mean it was er so . |