Example sentences of "he got a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poor ole bleeder 's one of us. 'E got a Blighty ticket early on an' 'e ai n't bin right since . |
| 2 | Naturally he could n't answer them all himself , so Post Office staff lent a hand and every kid who wrote to him got a reply , postmarked Reindeerland or Santaland . |
| 3 | He dismissively described how this man had ‘ come in , taken the material provided , and then had written a childish and critical book on the police , out of which he got a Ph.D . ’ |
| 4 | He has sold organic wines for the past five years , ever since he got a licence . |
| 5 | He got a knighthood as well as a fortune for his pains — the first professional sportsman to do so . |
| 6 | He got a little overtime and he made it go a long way . |
| 7 | He got a lot of attention . |
| 8 | He got a respectful sideways look , which he appreciated , and smiled down at her . |
| 9 | He got a residency for the next year at the University of Kent and spent half the week in Canterbury . |
| 10 | He got a little tired of her complaints that male chauvinism had stopped her getting a book out . |
| 11 | He was the only man in the class , which meant he got a lot of attention . |
| 12 | He got a good-natured reprimand from Mona for not setting a good example to the lower classes . |
| 13 | The past includes a violent father who walked out on the family when Banks was 12 , and running away from home himself at 18 to join Castro ( ‘ In the late Fifties , remember , he got a great press in the States . |
| 14 | ‘ He got a message from you , it seems . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I felt like I was escaping just to get in , ’ he reflected after his taxi failed to turn up and he got a lift from a receptionist at his hotel . |
| 16 | He got a magnificent 3 on the last , and lost by a shot . |
| 17 | I once remember he got a hole-in-one in the Agfa Gevaert tournament at the 16th . |
| 18 | We 'd discussed taking a 1-iron , but he insisted on a 3-wood and , although he got a bad bounce , put it in the sand and took a bogey . |
| 19 | After all , you got your hat back and he got a nice tip . |
| 20 | He had been playing centre-half for Clapton , alongside Denis Hill-Wood , son of the then Arsenal chairman , when he got a telegram from Clapton 's secretary Harry Kordell . |
| 21 | But the old bobby — he 'd downed his pint of beer — he got taken before the chief constable and he got a serious fine , £1 . |
| 22 | In fact , the British inventor P. J. Packman took the idea a stage further ; he developed a cutter for V-shaped grooves , rather than the U-shaped grooves then considered normal , so he got a deeper groove at the same time . |
| 23 | Every time he tried to move he got a burst of machine gun fire . |
| 24 | He got a buzzing feeling and thought the place quite extraordinary . |
| 25 | But the ‘ big apple ’ had no appeal to Sam , although he got a temporary job in the ‘ rag trade ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ He got a bit greedy . |
| 27 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 28 | In 1924 he got a chapter to himself in Harold Begbie 's The Conservative Mind , a best-selling effort by a popular journalist to identify a Tory tradition representing the best in English life . |
| 29 | Because he was a comic actor , he got a laugh . |
| 30 | ‘ Look , he got a first-class lead and he followed it up , ’ protested Philip Kelly . |