Example sentences of "[Wh pn] get [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means Newry 's Errol Lutton , who got a late call to Poland after Ger Burns had to withdraw through injury , keeps his place , a further chance to establish himself as a regular in the international set-up . |
| 2 | The main purchaser was Mr ( not yet Lord ) Roy Thomson , who got a national foothold through The Sunday Times . |
| 3 | It was he who , as we shall see , ultimately replaced George Lansbury as the leader of the party with Attlee and who got the Labour Party to move from its general support of peace and pacifism towards the need to prepare to meet the threat of war with European fascism . |
| 4 | Right , number eleven who got the famous gold course |
| 5 | Who got the highest score ? |
| 6 | I had always argued against sit-ins and ‘ direct action ’ against campus property as it was always the poor bloody infantry — the cleaners , maintenance men and secretaries — who got the rough end of the pineapple , never the generals in command . |
| 7 | It was a woman who got the first question in , her voice rising shrilly above the others . |
| 8 | The most important point , however , is that this rapist , who got the most publicity , is the most unusual . |
| 9 | They work out who got the most shots in |
| 10 | Here again it was the nobility and gentry who got the most attention , but at the same time the inferior ranks of society were defined with some rigour . |
| 11 | ‘ I seem to remember that excuse has already been used by the man who got the human race thrown out of Eden . ’ |
| 12 | I attach a copy of the distribution list so that you can see who got the previous edition . |
| 13 | At least , this is the case for the driver , who gets a sexy wrap-around binnacle containing all the controls , dials and readouts he needs . |
| 14 | The prospects of other EC nationals voting in European and local elections in France , and Brussels deciding who gets a French visa , have pushed the National Front campaign into turbo-charge . |
| 15 | I do n't care who gets the bloody picnic . |
| 16 | the problem is with how the is conducted who gets the first bite ? |
| 17 | It 's the sort of thing it is easy to observe if you stand around in the garage during practice or generally stick around a team , watching who gets the first briefing , who is paying more attention to whom . |
| 18 | We 've got ta have a direction , and it 's not about who gets the best jobs and who gets the best power positions , it 's about dictating an agenda by the members for the members in the interests of our members , the T & g 's members and all trade unionists in this country . |
| 19 | We 've got ta have a direction , and it 's not about who gets the best jobs and who gets the best power positions , it 's about dictating an agenda by the members for the members in the interests of our members , the T & g 's members and all trade unionists in this country . |
| 20 | Any surplus votes they had are re-allocated to the candidate who gets the second preference . |
| 21 | Five quid to anyone who gets the extra joke in there . |
| 22 | With a lightly-built guitar , the sound ‘ surrounds ’ the instrument , and it 's the player who gets the full enjoyment . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’ |
| 24 | The Minister of State spoke about overcrowding and the cost of adding a supervision requirement to the new sentence ; with Mayhew , in a phrase that was to gain increasing currency on the Conservative benches , pronouncing that whereas a great many people who get a suspended sentence , and their friends , think that they have got away with their crime , the effect of ‘ a short , sharp and I hope , nasty taste of prison ’ would linger on . |
| 25 | Shoppers who get a raw deal can write to an ombudsman |
| 26 | That is an appalling situation , but it is made more appalling because it mainly affects students from the poorest backgrounds , those whose parents are on low incomes and who get no financial help from their parents because they can not afford to give it . |
| 27 | The proportion of the bottom two-thirds of pupils who get the following item correct is considerably reduced compared with the number who correctly answer " How many halves are there in 2½ ? " ( see p.33 ) Reading a scale with divisions which do not represent one unit again proves difficult as the next item illustrates : The next question which fewer than 50 per cent of the middle third could answer was the last in this group of three items . |
| 28 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
| 29 | It 's blokes like him who get the National Health Service a good name . |
| 30 | That 's a shame because I do n't normally use overheads and I 've got into them this year and er my stats group in particular , who get the same sort of treatment as you do , have actually said th |