Example sentences of "they [verb] get a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they 've got a short concentration . |
| 2 | Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that . |
| 3 | You could always , you , you always used to say we could tell the German planes coming over er they 'd got a certain sound because they were so heavily ladened . |
| 4 | Because they 'd got a tremendous struggle on , they 'd got a tremendous struggle on , they were struggling against tremendous odds , they were struggling against er er all sorts of er er of er of trickery , that er was being conducted by quite a quite a few of the er quite a few of the major powers . |
| 5 | Because they 'd got a tremendous struggle on , they 'd got a tremendous struggle on , they were struggling against tremendous odds , they were struggling against er er all sorts of er er of er of trickery , that er was being conducted by quite a quite a few of the er quite a few of the major powers . |
| 6 | I wish they 'd got a bigger one . |
| 7 | And then he just never went to school and they maintained they 'd got a private . |
| 8 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 9 | been one fifty nine I think , or one ninety nine , they 'd got a special price |
| 10 | And they were buying this house and it was worth something like I do n't know , they were , they 'd got a twenty five grand mortgage . |
| 11 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 12 | In fact , they seem to get a good price for their equity , because they only sell when they sense that investors feel lucky . |
| 13 | Although drivers can not ‘ steer ’ the car in the current simulation , they do get a convincing impression of speed and distance , as well as a scene recorded from real life . |
| 14 | Well that 's moved United one place down the table , they do get an extra point of course for today , they move on to thirty two points . |
| 15 | John Gorman says he 's fine and once they start getting a few points you 'll see all the smiling faces back again . |
| 16 | It looks as if over there stuck on the wall they 've got a rechargeable for hoover for taking crumbs off the tables . |
| 17 | Yes , I 've just heard Alan say that they 've got a young side , and we 're similar over here , we 're playing in a good standard of football . |
| 18 | They 've got a spare room in my mum 's flat so I just took it over and put a weights bench in and , what else , a rowing machine and I started to do some weights |
| 19 | I think they 've got a bloody cheek , you know , asking for a car park fee when yo si from the you 've got |
| 20 | And they 've got a bloody outside toilet have n't they ? |
| 21 | Well they 've got a bloody cheek then int they , to do a full street ? |
| 22 | But do n't forget this this is a very important time with the all the increase coming in they 've got a helluva lot to take on , not just learning the company but they got the new routes and everything and it 's going to leave I would 've thought very short in an exceptionally busy period |
| 23 | I would like some quarry tiles on there , but we ca n't get any of the narrow ones , they 've got a curved edge . |
| 24 | she tell you it was a , the answer should have been a hundred and twenty nine and they 've got a thirty one in it yeah |
| 25 | Whereas the least grown-up people I know , although they 've got a tremendous value for society so bless them anyway , are ‘ artists ’ . |
| 26 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 27 | Well , the trouble is that they 've got a closed |
| 28 | They 've got a long list , and I assume that the non long listed candidates have been told ? |
| 29 | I mean in n things like swimming baths are chlorinated so they 've got a low bug count anyway , so , so you 'll be at low risk of getting anything there . |
| 30 | ‘ They 've got a policeman in charge of the Ministry of Information , and they 've got a daft Prime Minister in Edith Cresson . |