Example sentences of "they [vb past] get [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the colt always objected violently to having an iron shoe nailed on to its hoofs ; and sometimes the smith and his assistants were thrown about the trav ‘ us as they tried to get the young animal under control . |
| 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 | Erm which is points up a weakness there on the public relations side there I mean going back to their post share repurchase they said that they 'd got no new products in the pipeline , no research and development really sort of throwing anything up in the near future . |
| 12 | Erm they had n't got a survey going , they 'd got coming round to have a look at it , and they 'd got the environmental health from London to have a survey of it , and er everything . |
| 13 | It 's a good job they 'd got the second book off to the publishers . |
| 14 | They all thought they 'd got the dreaded C , poor things . |
| 15 | Well they 'd sell you the most expensive because they 'd got the most commission |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | His eyes were squeezed tight in agony , and he and the other three men locked in the shafts grunted loudly with exertion as they strove to get the heavy carts rolling again . |
| 18 | Christina helped her , and eventually they managed to get the tiny bikini back into place . |
| 19 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 20 | I mean in , in , in retrospect they probably could 've achieved it because they , they got the military er they , they , they did get the military security and you probably could 've afforded actually to , to mobilize the peasants through land reform . |
| 21 | she had the two , the first one was n't put right , you know they had to get the exact one |
| 22 | They had got no farther . |
| 23 | Both the media and academia had generations who believed that they had got a production-based right to ‘ do things to people ’ . |
| 24 | The recent reorganization of the party had been carried out because " they wanted to get a real popular element in the direction of the party , but no attempt should be made to interfere autocratically from the H.Q. to the constituencies . |
| 25 | The people for whom the message was phrased in this way might have recognised the irony — in a fertile country , they wanted to get a little bit more , so they started worshipping a fertility god , Baal ! |