Example sentences of "we got a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example : ‘ In 1931 we got a new P[arish] P[riest] . |
| 2 | The staff were polite but when asked why there was no sign on the shop door , we got a rather unsatisfactory answer . |
| 3 | It was disturbing to hear the manager remind questioners of what happened when he made ‘ sensible ’ experiments in Saudi Arabia late last year : ‘ We got a 1-1 draw and a nasty headline . ’ |
| 4 | For a bit of fun before we went back to London we got a boat trip round the harbour . |
| 5 | We got a name , we left Riverside and we slung Wally out of the band . |
| 6 | As Signals explained , television ruined all this homespun entertainment but personally I found it quite a relief when we got a set and could all sit around watching King George 's funeral . |
| 7 | The last time we got a penalty away from home , Christ was a carpenter . |
| 8 | We got a dreadful van from a man called Nick the Maltese , down the East End . |
| 9 | We got charge accounts at Max 's Kansas City , we got a charge account with a limousine service — we rode limousines instead of taxis because we did n't have to pay for limousines and we 'd have to pay the taxis — so we were always in limousines . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , we got a replacement for Jameson … what ? … three months ago . |
| 11 | Dear God , We got a lot of religion in our house . |
| 12 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke says we can do a Roman banquet so we got a book from the library about what sort of food they ate . |
| 13 | And we got a generous response . |
| 14 | And in other circumstances , when Sanusi was not contrasted with Italy , Zuwaya marked the ambiguity : ‘ We invited the Sanusi to Kufra because we wanted law — and we got a government . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Two days ago we got a dire warning of what would happen under Labour . |
| 16 | We got a lot of support from other trade unions . |
| 17 | We got a birdie at the 11th by using the 1-iron when Johnny went for the 3-wood , got on , but not near enough to make the birdie putt . |
| 18 | ‘ Naw ! the lodger … we got a lodger . ’ |
| 19 | Everyone was fiddling like mad when we got a leak through from the office that they were sending private detectives round the houses … |
| 20 | We got a call to a pub — near the Dock Road . |
| 21 | That could however have been also due to the fact that on her third night in this world , although the Germans had never previously visited Hertfordshire , we got a bomb on the front of the hospital . |
| 22 | ‘ When we moved the telescope off the galaxy to what we expected to be blank sky , ’ Terzian explained , ‘ we got a signal instead . |
| 23 | Apart from what he found in bins — sweets , unopened crisp packets , seven corned beef sandwiches hygienically wrapped in foil — he went into a Chinese takeaway in a slummy area and asked for ‘ Fried rice leavings ’ and we got a massive pile each , full of scraps of prawn and mushroom and sweet-'n'-sour pork . |
| 24 | Then a few months later we got a phone call from him asking myself and the singer to come out to Britain , and so we came out . |
| 25 | The band was called Touching Home and we got a lot of church functions and ended up playing for the American community there . ’ |
| 26 | If we got a big name producer in , he could make a song bland or something , and that 's what we 're afraid of . |
| 27 | ‘ We got a lot to do , boy . |
| 28 | We got a flexi reviewed by Steven Swells ( sic ) once — he said it was sexy . |
| 29 | Rather than rip-snorting acceleration we got a gentle but smooth and steady push in the back . |
| 30 | We got a bad performance out of our system and now we are in the mood to show what we can really do . ’ |