Example sentences of "get [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can also get the ones when , a lot of them , like some companies if they , depending how much business they 've got , some companies actually think that , they might have only got fifty pound a week , a hundred pound a week , as they have n't got young businesses , do you get me ? |
| 2 | We 've got fifty pound a month we can play with and we , to buy |
| 3 | At that time , I could have got that girl a bed straight away in a decent place — I am not talking about a mattress on a floor . |
| 4 | When I first started I were getting fourteen shilling a day . |
| 5 | Our lists contained the names of the family ‘ prigs ’ we knew were professional thieves and burglars ; and of whom I was advised on my arrival in the department by an old detective : ‘ you only get one chance a year to nail these bastards if you are lucky , so when you do , its got to be watertight ’ . |
| 6 | talking about children getting five pound a week spending money |
| 7 | First of all they 're not satisfied with getting one deal a day , they 'll they 'll not sit back on their laurels and say oh I 've done my work , they 'll go out and get another two . |
| 8 | He 's on the dole , lucky if he 's gets thirty pound a week . |
| 9 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 10 | You know , today they get fifty pounds and hundreds , hundred pound a week , the lads get hundred pound a week now . |
| 11 | He got twelve shilling a week . |
| 12 | You asked me if I 've got , Dad , can I get that pen a minute ? |
| 13 | She got herself a job in Reading college , she got somebody to take her down there and a place to get an English A Level , and Mary said it 's a thing with her she wants to get this English A Level cos her father had one and she feels that is she could get and English A Level it would impress him , he , she spends her life trying to impress her father who does n't really takes much notice of her , . |
| 14 | I 'd say you 'd get clear flooring a yard or two inside there . ’ |
| 15 | And help with the lorry business and er I used to get three pound a week out of it . |
| 16 | But if , with this job one , they could , they could say right well we 'll put you in a mental home where you will learn your skills , but you will only get ten pound a week |