Example sentences of "get a letter " in BNC.

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31 I came back for a month , met a Peruvian girl and then I got a letter from her giving me a really good reason to come back .
32 I got a letter from Lee saying I 'd be carrying his bag for the 1968 Alcan at Birkdale and for the World Matchplay .
33 Allotment holders got a letter from the council 's pollution control technician warning them that under the terms of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , the council would be obliged to take formal action if the smoke from an allotment bonfire amounted to a nuisance .
34 Last week I got a letter .
35 A week later Adam got a letter saying he was the sole beneficiary under the will of his late great-uncle .
36 ‘ If mine got a letter from me , ’ said Rufus , ‘ they 'd think I was dying or in jail . ’
37 ‘ We got a letter from him saying he was due in court for burglary — but he did n't mention anything about elderly women . ’
38 A JOBLESS Tory voter got a letter from 10 Downing Street yesterday telling him things are looking up .
39 PENSIONER Pearl Reed , 63 , got a letter at her home in Cambridge from a friend three miles away — 15 minutes after it was postmarked .
40 KATHLEEN Parker , 64 , of Swindon , Wilts , got a letter 90 minutes after it was posted in the town .
41 But the following day , I got a letter from Gorden Kaye , who plays the character , saying how much he enjoyed it .
42 ‘ But a few days later he got a letter with a train ticket down south and two hundred pounds in notes as expenses .
43 I got a letter the other day from one of Syd 's admirers .
44 I got a letter to say dad was in hospital and we had a buzz bomb and it was n't too bad and er do n't worry .
45 ‘ We got a letter from 'im only the ovver day , ’ William replied .
46 In return , he got a letter assuring him that Michael Joyce was ‘ one of the most respectable , law-abiding and loyal men in the locality , and one who has been consistently an advocate of the ‘ pro-Allied ’ cause since the beginning of the war . ’
47 I also got a letter from Mr C.N.D. Cole , the editor of the Western Mail .
48 And then one day I got a letter from Miss Wooler 's school .
49 ‘ I got a letter , ’ she said .
50 ‘ I got a letter from you , ’ she said , ‘ then I talked to Sam Pascoe … ’
51 But when the immigration people came I got a letter , and they said that I could stay while they finished their inquiries .
52 And there , the tailor , he 'd been trained in the war , and he he only had one la leg , and he seemed very nice , but er he told me to start on the Monday and then I got a letter .
53 Well , er er a similar , er when you got a letter , when you got a letter , so you you 'd probably get you 'd probably get four or five Woodbines , you see , er things like this , and there was an issue from time to time , and they were chiefly American cigarettes , chiefly American cigarettes .
54 Well , er er a similar , er when you got a letter , when you got a letter , so you you 'd probably get you 'd probably get four or five Woodbines , you see , er things like this , and there was an issue from time to time , and they were chiefly American cigarettes , chiefly American cigarettes .
55 When we got there he got a letter to say the owner had fixed up for coal for Poole in Dorset .
56 His firm sent him for a month to another part of the country , and at first he telephoned home every night ; but three weeks later she got a letter saying that he had met another woman and was planning to marry her as soon as possible .
57 Not long after he got a letter from them .
58 Then I got a letter .
59 After four months , Rachaela herself got a letter from Emma .
60 I got a letter from Richard , who 's the area manager of Notts County Council , offering us er well let me read it to you , it says , thank you for your letter of twenty sixth of March , and comments therein .
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