Example sentences of "[vb past] get [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And I think that was on the basis that we were insisting that everybody visited the local F E college or you know sort of Yorkshire , Scarborough , Harrogate got got their irregular updatings and S and Selby when whatever .
2 ‘ So , we 're gon na see where he tried to get his wicked way with Nicola , are we ? ’
3 I wish I 'd got my woolly hat .
4 Having gone that long undetected by the enemies sitting almost next to me , I 'd got my over-confident bravado back with interest .
5 And I went round town on Saturday and I 'd gone more or less from work as well so I 'd got my big bag with me and ooh my shoulder !
6 It 's just that I wish I 'd got my wretched memory back some other way . ’
7 Mr. Barlow said we 'd got someone new starting today . "
8 She seemed to get her good sense back when she could n't see him .
9 In a serialised version of the book under a headline : ‘ Venables never made Spurs his top priority ’ , Scholar alleged : ‘ Tottenham , alas , never seemed to get his full attention . ’
10 When her son Henry , another court musician , died in 1633 , his widow petitioned to get their four-year-old son , Henry , Emilia 's grandson , trained in music , ‘ as soon as he shall be capable thereof ’ .
11 Half dragging and half carrying him , she managed to get his inert body into the drawing room and onto the sofa .
12 In the mid-1950s only a few of the simpler , standard power stations were beginning commissioning three to three-and-a-half years after the start of work on site , but the BEA failed to get their average performance near to that of their best or up to the similar three-year timings achieved by the Atomic Energy Authority in developing their smaller ( but more challenging ) demonstration nuclear power plants .
13 If Beth had got her just rewards , Tyler Blacklock had carved himself a very different destiny .
14 And on the Light Programme there was The Black and White Minstrel Show , where Benny Elton and Ricky Mayall had got their big break ; The Archers , with Richard Burton and Joan Collins as Dan and Doris , saving the Ambridge enclave from gypsies and travellers ; Doctor Who , with Barry Humphries visiting Great Moments of British History ; The Muffin the Mule Hour …
15 The conference chairman shouted into the microphone that he had got his little list and he was damned if he was not going to stick to it .
16 Dell says it delayed the introduction of the Dimension machines until the small office and home office market picked up outside the US , but it also had to get its European manufacturing facility in Limerick , Ireland tooled up .
17 ‘ I know the Japanese are a very clean race , very keen on hygiene , but they had let things go towards the finish and we had to get their working parties to clean the ditches out . ’
18 But he often said that he owed as much to Oscar Browning [ q.v. ] , who had to get his Baptist parents ' permission to take him to the theatre .
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