Example sentences of "they get [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But he knows actually what we 're trying to do on a Sunday , and they either like to play us , er er once or twice and they got a reasonable ground .
2 Till they got a good piece through .
3 Oh no that did n't , and cos they got a good job , I mean five pound seven and six a week a skipper 's earnings .
4 They got a brilliant reception from the Leeds fans at the end .
5 But when Norway and Austria ( the schilling is pegged to the D-mark ) applied for associate membership last year , they got a cool reception .
6 They got a nasty shock : real bush pilots had been attracted to the UK from the four corners of the earth to get these well-maintained examples , and the high prices they fetched reflected the great demand that still exists for these superb workhorses .
7 They got a new engine in the mill er the start of the war I think .
8 They were cleaned until you could see your face in them and fellows were so keen that when they got a new tunic , they would cut all their new buttons off , and put their old buttons on that were beautifully shined .
9 Why they got a little house down there
10 Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward .
11 Well after this if they got a big rest did n't it , because I looked at , when we played Norwich and it was March the nineteenth , well given that there was a game the week before , are you listening to me ?
12 and they were saying about people with er , F M problems and they got a big coat hanger
13 And they got a huge boost hours later when it was revealed that the president had made a spectacular recovery in the polls .
14 From Cullen , where they got a fresh chaise ‘ and very good horses ’ , to Elgin is a distance of about twenty-five miles , through whiskified Speyside .
15 They got a different background .
16 I do n't think they got a true picture , especially not of C1 , because the staff reacted in a helluva different way to when the cameras were n't there .
17 However they got a free kick from one of their lot diving when noone was anywhere near , and Leeds were still beginning to take position when Newell I think takes the kick and Shearer picks it up and scores .
18 I reckon they got a one-single deal on Epic .
19 They got a red thumb !
20 Now they were provided with a meal for which the police , at that time paid sixpence , and for the sixpence for breakfast they got a thick round of bread , margarine , a piece of cheese and a mug of tea .
21 But when a camera crew arrived at the rectory , they got a hostile reception .
22 An old stockman who lived nearby had a gold-pan and a sluice-box — not to mention a very dubious prospector 's map , with ‘ reef gold ’ marked in the most enticing , most improbable places , and they got a bad case of gold fever .
23 See most people had good intentions , whenever they got a whole lot of stuff from the Cooperative , they would say I 'll lay so much by every week and I 'll have it at the end of the quarter .
24 When he sent ambassadors here , they got no sympathetic hearing from the barons ; the king , however , was a master of the timely gesture .
25 ‘ He said he would buy me a hat and I told him we 'd wait until they got the new 'uns in ; but when we come to it a week or two later he would n't spend his money .
26 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
27 They got the other women to call me that so that they would n't like me .
28 They slept for a while , they got the other bottle , they swam , they talked and sighed , Jessica scanned the Fahan shore for a friendly sail , they slept again .
29 They got the good dividend .
30 They got the entire work .
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