Example sentences of "get [adj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever , it got him a long , heartfelt , high-pitched ‘ Wooooooooooooooo ’ from about 20,000 people who 'd got little else to wooo about . |
| 2 | We 've got two actually in stock |
| 3 | He grew up rich in beauty ; I grew up under a miserly , penny-pinching sky , in the niggardly light of England where , for three months of the year , it gets dark soon after lunch and for three more it does n't bother getting light at all . |
| 4 | There again , I always get gloomy just before polling day . |
| 5 | Regretting that these people would now ‘ experience further disadvantage , ’ Neil bravely predicted that ‘ one day our nation will get better better in spirit . ’ |
| 6 | Older surveys such as those by Mauriel and Anthony ( 1966 ) , Tomkins ( 1973 ) , and Reece and Cool ( 1978 ) , and more recent studies such as those of Pike ( 1983 ) , Scapens and Sale ( 1985 ) and Cornwell ( 1987 ) , do not get close enough to behaviour in specific contexts to reveal whether companies are suffering from a misuse of ROI . |