Example sentences of "got [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ From what I 've seen of him , I 'd say he 's got rather a perverse sense of humour and enjoys winding people up , ’ said Melissa , remembering in particular his brush with Alain Gebrec the previous afternoon over the controversial book . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , my husband says I 've got rather a good voice , ’ she responded . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got rather a big order , ’ she said , ‘ mostly for slippers but one or two pairs of shoes I have to make in French calf . ‘ |
| 4 | Goodness knows I 've got only a bare chance of catching her , though . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't blame the woman for doing as much as possible on television with in those advertisements because I think that woman have got only a short life in those ads because she 'd get bored with them . |
| 6 | As well as rumours of troops of infantry escorting respectable citizens to afternoon tea in the suburbs , and the recommendation that gentlemen at a loose end because of the shortage of decent game reserves might turn their hand to a new blood-sport — ‘ We have got together a splendid pack this season , and the game is still so plentiful that I 'll bet we 'll show you some really first-rate sport ’ — the ‘ anti-garotte ’ movement launched by Punch invented various kinds of anti-robbery device . |
| 7 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 8 | Over the past years , we 've got together a superb programme of trips and good times to make sure you get the chance to see the very best this island has to offer . |
| 9 | I owe you a pound , yeah , I ca n't give it to you dear because I 've still got exactly a ten pound note dear and I 'm waiting for the pools lady dear |
| 10 | After all , if he could n't get into the England team while the ban was in force , what chance has he got once a world-class player like Gatting becomes available again ? |
| 11 | However , on Saturday he had one of those games when little went right for him and as a result the pack rarely got up a good head of steam . |
| 12 | No , in this country up until Christmas I 've got about a hundred pound include , including getting Christmas presents , from now too December the twenty-sixth . |
| 13 | He 's just a bit , he needs to calm down a bit cos he 's not got , he 's got quite a nice face . |
| 14 | erm on the next er , item er we have er on item ten we 've got the welfare rights and er advice and we 've got quite a long report which I hope you 'll agree is an excellent report , er and er Sue is here to present it . |
| 15 | He 's got quite a long body which is what |
| 16 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 17 | But , in this area of East Anglia , which of course , includes this part of Essex itself we have got quite a tidy ratio at the moment of these panels of school teachers and panels of young engineers to actually look at a national curriculum and work out some kind of erm time cycle when a young engineer could come in and actually cross the t's and dot the i's on parts which obviously the teachers do n't know about . |
| 18 | He s got quite a dry sense of humour and was probably ‘ joking ’ about the Norwich match … and lets face it it was a bit of a horror show defensively ! |
| 19 | And also can you put Rebecca 's tracksuit on cos she 's got quite a grubby frock on , so you might as well put her jogsuit on as well . |
| 20 | You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today . |
| 21 | I think er , having said that , I mean you 've got quite a decent coverage of attitudes and situations in here already . |
| 22 | on the road er They 've got quite a good selection now . |
| 23 | From the sound of them and from the way they are used , you have probably got quite a good idea of what you think they mean . |
| 24 | you 're , you 've got quite a good backbone there but you have n't got anything that really grabs my emotions . |
| 25 | So you 've got quite a good relationship |
| 26 | Now this psychology , there 's absolutely loads of stuff on it so and the Maitlin book 's got quite a good coverage of it , so I 'll go over it quite quickly , alright ? |
| 27 | No , I think he 's , I said to Robert I 've got quite a good streak cos I 've never seen Sally |
| 28 | for the Water Board so he 's got quite a good job you know , but erm , I 'm , we could n't afford to put the other through the apprentice because I mean you had n't got the money had you then |
| 29 | It 'd probably be a good studio amp as it 's got quite a rich sound , albeit at low volumes . |
| 30 | They add a bit of spice … and I 've got quite a nasty temper when it 's roused . |