Example sentences of "and get a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After they did this four more times I decided to try to outdo them , and got a sheet of glass ready . |
| 2 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
| 3 | Our experience of MCI Communications Corp 's MCI Mail service makes us feel that it has a quite impressively user friendly interface , whereas we find it difficult to believe that British Telecommunications Plc 's Dialcom — or good ol' Telecom Gold — is really quite as user-hostile as it appears , so having hit a snag in MCI and keyed ‘ help ’ at the prompt , and got a couple of screens of useful information ending with two phone numbers and a further option to key at the prompt , we wondered what Gold came up with if you keyed ‘ help ’ — here is the answer — Top-level directory not found or inaccessible . |
| 4 | She tried to work herself , and got a couple of nights barmaiding , but he did n't like that , and he did n't like one of the children going to nursery . |
| 5 | They were built with me in mind and I liked them and got a couple from Fender . |
| 6 | He exchanged insults with the dog in the wine barrel and got a kick in the ribs from his master . |
| 7 | GOLFER Mark Williams ducked to avoid a stray ball and got a hole in one — in his jacket pocket . |
| 8 | The Heathfield trainer commented : ‘ Breakfast Car bashed a leg in his last race and got a bit of heat in it , so we turned him away for the rest of last season . |
| 9 | So I had a walk up the town and called in Tesco 's and got a bit of shopping . |
| 10 | She grabbed a coat , went back downstairs , kissed Simon on top of the head and got a grunt in reply , and then went out to meet her cab . |
| 11 | yeah and got a knot in him |
| 12 | So we saw this fellow go up to the window and look and then he went and got a stone from the kerb and ‘ bang ’ on the window . |
| 13 | She then stayed with us , and got a taxi for me to Victoria , which was taking Hastings trains at that time . |
| 14 | ‘ All right , ’ he said , ‘ I 'll go and get a bottle , ’ and he went and got a bottle of ale and brought one out for himself . |
| 15 | He went up and got a bottle of Sasperella he said to me there was two bottles left . |
| 16 | She raced to the bathroom and got a bowl of water and a towel . |
| 17 | It is high time that we got rid of the Government who have characterised the 1980s with cardboard city and got a Government for the 1990s who will start using bricks and mortar again . |
| 18 | Luckily , this example of bureaucracy gone mad was stopped just in time by Kenneth Clarke , who was watching cricket at Trent Bridge and got a call on his mobile phone about Johan 's case . |
| 19 | They got off the bus at Holborn and got a train to Mile End , from there taking another train to Ilford . |
| 20 | I took a wallet from Birmingham New Street Station and got a train to London . |
| 21 | He left the mines eventually and got a job with a builder — he could turn his hand to anything — one of those men , you know , plumbing , anything . |
| 22 | ‘ I eventually arrived in Los Angeles and got a job with a show-business agency as a secretary . |
| 23 | Liza left as well and got a job on the munitions with Sally Buckley , which boded no good . |
| 24 | I went to Newark and got a job at , a ball bearing factory , and er they paid me the handsome wage of er two pounds sixteen for forty seven hours . |
| 25 | I left school in 1942 and got a job at the airport , which at the times we were living in always something exciting seemed to be happening . |
| 26 | I run away when I was fifteen and got a job as a skivvy with a fam'ly up on Brixton 'Ill . ’ |
| 27 | Moira studied shorthand and typing and got a job as a secretary in the office of Mr Henry Marriner , a successful businessman . |
| 28 | He went away and got a job as a waiter in a bad restaurant in Soho . |
| 29 | It 's all a question of who you know ’ — and got a job as a DJ on a Detroit radio station on a show called Streetbeat . |
| 30 | Authorative first crime novel from a woman so obsessed with violent crime that she gave up crime reporting and got a job in the morgue |