Example sentences of "i get [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 It was so wonderful every time she kicked although towards the end I got terrible backache and I was so tired all the time .
2 Well I got six trailers and four bush ones
3 I got five CSEs and grade 2s .
4 I got one side and then you turn it over , you keep to the line all the time you know , so the two cuts meet
5 I 've thought guaran two machines you 're guaranteed for four years then , cos they did n't write the serial number down , so if I got two machines and it goes faulty I just send it back and say this machine 's faulty , they do n't know how many I 've got
6 And of course the old joke goes like er I got two brothers and each brothers got a sister and I 've got a sister .
7 I got 27 bookings and never looked back . ’
8 The trusty Haynes manual , a completely eccentric MZ parts specialist in London ( ‘ I got black mudguards and chrome mudguards .
9 so she 's , her aunty 's going to Dublin , so I got these things and they were really cheap actually .
10 Yeah I got some work and me boys got on some post putting up , he said , but mind you , it might er dry up I do n't know , it looks a bit er , thick does n't it ?
11 I got some paper and wrote : Englishness and its effect on …
12 Well I got some sheets and that .
13 ‘ So what I did was , I got some stones and threw them at the driver . ’
14 Well , I went home and I got another job and it , then I went back , I says can I have me card ?
15 The union then supported me further when I got another job and was a steward there , a branch secretary a district committee member and then on the regional committee and they also helped to put me through polytechnic and into the job that I did looking at mergers at the University of Warwick .
16 This was at Bangor and then I got another number and then I got told that they now have the direct organisation
17 Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes .
18 take it in the end but erm anyway I got this diploma and er then I was quite annoyed because erm Social Services then erm pu the Welfare for the Blind was dealt with by the Public Health Department and a vacancy occurred in the Public Health Department for erm Blind Welfare Officer , or at least a Welfare Officer for the Blind and I applied for it and erm , they er did n't make an appointment because they did n't er get in other applications but they di they did n't offer me the appointment .
19 which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here
20 I get good days and not so good days . ’
21 I 'm afraid that 's why I get paranoid Christine and say
22 Now I get social security and my family allowance .
23 If I get those things and a book or two — I will go to Wednesday night chapel for a whole year .
24 Had n't got one upstairs , had n't a card , so I went out sa we 've been out this afternoon , and I get this card and I think , oh yes , now that 's pretty !
25 I get free beer and cigarettes , and Chinese whisky is not bad ; I tried some Chinese ‘ orange wine ’ ( curacao ) last night , and that was very good .
26 Oh I do n't I get fresh carrots and leeks and
27 Shall I get some knives and forks ?
28 This is a game I invented to allow me to get some exercise and amuse my children at the same time .
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