Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel what companies are looking for is an available skilled workforce , not the opportunity to get a lot of unemployed people at a very low wage so , I 'm basically supporting what you 've said . |
| 2 | In specialist chambers ( such as taxation , family law , employment law , company law , local government law , town and country planning , rating , commercial law , shipping , restrictive practices , libel law , and patent ) , it is harder for the beginner to get a start and less likely that the incompetent can make headway . |
| 3 | The winner gets a bottle of Metusalem Oloroso sherry , reputed to be one of Winston Churchill 's favourite tipples , which recently won a trophy in Wine magazine 's annual international wine challenge . |
| 4 | But it was rather boring , and one of the gang got a can of anti-perspirant and suggested that they each have a sniff to get high and have ‘ dreams ’ . |
| 5 | Mr Arsmtrong said : ‘ She said she thought he was going to start on her again so she went into the kitchen to get a knife and while her husband had his back turned she pushed the knife into his lower back . |
| 6 | CONSETT steelworks pensioners yesterday joined the fight to get a share of a £300m British Steel pension surplus . |
| 7 | Each January the Association gets a transfusion with the payment of the annual subscriptions , but our corporate health is not all that it could be . |
| 8 | There has been a lot of this kind of partnership in recent years and there is no doubt that there is some mutual benefit but the benefits are unrelated for each party — the college gets a resource that it can use , the donor a warm sense of public spirit , a tax deduction or some publicity . |
| 9 | HAS THE CHEF GOT A PIG 'S HEAD ? |
| 10 | I will talk to our major clients in the industry to get a gut feel for their reactions to product B. We can then make the decision . ’ |
| 11 | A huddle of passengers gathered round the steps of the carriage to get a look at the reading and , lest their breathing distort the figure , Nadia held it aloft like a fish between finger and thumb . |
| 12 | In return for holding the party , the agent gets a fee or commission ( a percentage of the price ) on goods sold . |
| 13 | I went down to the washroom to get a drink of water , and to have a shave ; I did n't want to turn up at Boulogne Police Station looking scruffy . |
| 14 | And that was last summer and that was the next summer and the girl , one of the gir the people that was in the car gets a letter |
| 15 | Oh well , he 'll , he 'll have to wait until the car to get a car |
| 16 | ‘ I saw him getting it out when I went to the car to get a book I 'd left there . |
| 17 | Mathers let go the wheel to get a cigarette from his shirt with one hand and press the dashboard lighter with the other . |
| 18 | Still was n't enough goals though even if Poland had beaten Holland , England still would n't have qualified because they needed , because er the opposition got a goal , they need to be , they had to win by seven clear goals so that meant they had to win eight one , not seven one , you see . |
| 19 | The Superintendent got a paper handkerchief from a drawer in his desk and took the bullet in a strip of tissue from the handkerchief . |
| 20 | You had to drive leftish to position yourself far enough down the fairway to get a pitch into the green . |
| 21 | To begin a case the petitioner needed to go to the curia to get a mandate to judges at home or he could send a proctor . |
| 22 | Erm to be honest the revision getting a bit neglected it 's , we 've done most of our coursework , in most subjects there 's coursework which in some subjects which has to be , not , does n't have to be done before the exam but it 's preparation , preparation work for the exams . |
| 23 | I think , if you are worried about the cat getting a dose of volts , that the former option is the better one . |
| 24 | and one day she said , Now then John I want to go to the other school to Mr , the schoolmaster to get a book . |
| 25 | After introductory nods between the four men , Billy went to the bar to get a round in . |
| 26 | Khat has to be fresh in order to work , so the shop gets a delivery every day . |
| 27 | The Vicar 's wife , who had parked on a yellow line while her gay husband went into the shop to get a treacle tart , got such a shock when Wayne stuck his big , hairy white face in through the window that she jumped out and ran away . |
| 28 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 29 | Instances in which workers take the initiative to get a job done reflect cooperative elements in the employment relationship . |
| 30 | Eventually the actor got a part in Lassie . |