Example sentences of "got a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boycott 's 63 held the innings together , Gooch and Gower got a few , Botham walloped 37 off 39 balls and 208 seemed a reasonable total on a pitch helpful to bowlers . |
| 2 | This got a few whistles . |
| 3 | It was an accident of course but old Colonel Saunchie got a few pellets in him . |
| 4 | By the time we reached the Ava Bridge it had stopped raining and having got across , we just lay on the ground and got a few hours ' sleep . |
| 5 | We got a few laughs and the local press gave me a good write-up , and the church warden came to me and he said to me ‘ Frank , you should be an actor , ’ and I thought God had spoken because in those days , he was representing God as far as I was concerned … . |
| 6 | It looks like its got a few tricks up its sleeve about Solaris-on-Intel as well : expect announcements of some OEMs . |
| 7 | Any body got any thing else to report , with got a few minutes left ? |
| 8 | When that did n't halt the disintegration they got a few able-bodied men from the village to help , but after a while it was obvious that much more radical repair was needed . |
| 9 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 10 | you got a few years back . |
| 11 | Well I got a video and , like , that 's all we got a few videos and the video showed you how to use a condom , and that was it . |
| 12 | Anyhow , he got a few horses from Besthorpe Hall , and one or two of the little farms ; and he jogged along until the time came when Mr Flowerdew came into Diss on a market day , and he saw my grandfather . |
| 13 | She wrote that she would prefer not to come home , but Tony and Maureen got a few days ' leave and travelled to Kent to see her . |
| 14 | In fact Leamington got a few things wrong , because they 've now been taken over . |
| 15 | Well , even I got a few laughs from their replies to that one . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it 's time we got a few things clear . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's time we got a few things sorted out . |
| 18 | But er , if they got a few more of those it might help . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose we got a few more names on a few more files learnt a bit about Moscow 's accountancy procedures . |
| 20 | So is the main report true ? only got a few seconds , I 'm sorry . |
| 21 | I sorted out old toys into boxes , got a few rolls of carpet and wallpaper back into their places from where they 'd fallen , pinned a couple of maps back on to the sloping wooden under-roof , cleared away some of the tools and bits and pieces that I 'd used to repair the Factory , and loaded the various sections of the Factory that needed to be loaded . |
| 22 | Even he got a few of the good lines , none better than when a malingerer produced a succession of ‘ chits ’ excusing him one arduous duty after the other . |
| 23 | Deane was playing well out of position acting as a left wing , to such an extent that he got a few crosses in during the first half . |
| 24 | Well I only got a few responses so the rest of the votes I made up . |
| 25 | killed whilst CO of No Squadron ) got a few of us together and suggested that we made a time-and-distance run from the seemingly everlasting fires of Rotterdam to the target — a large troop concentration some 35 miles away . |
| 26 | He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her . |
| 27 | that , the red bits , into red and got the , so I say , nice sort of tent cards and and got a few firms , I mean firms and come on in and do your display you know |
| 28 | I got a few little pairs of knickers there , I 'd have to get her some more though . |
| 29 | I got a few flowery ones somewhere . |
| 30 | Well you do n't , you do n't really look as if you need to lose weight cos it 's probably why you got a few stares , it 's like all the diet books that have sylphlike people on the front . |