Example sentences of "was [verb] get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she sat there for about 'arf an 'our , listenin' to the singin' and so forth , and then , just as she was beginnin' to get a bit bored , this Billy Graham comes on to the platform . |
| 2 | WPC Helen Smith has been banned from cell duties after she was seen getting a shoulder massage from one prisoner . |
| 3 | We was told to get a mortgage and that of course she she was on her own . |
| 4 | The rock is a unique form of conglomerate , so warming up on a few practice routes was needed to get a feel for it . |
| 5 | Nutty stopped Midnight and brought him into the centre and Nails thought he was going to get a rest , but she immediately sent him off in the other direction . |
| 6 | I wondered if I was going to get a word in edgeways some time . |
| 7 | I was going to make you prefer me to London and Paris … and I was going to get a fellowship overseas if I had to , to keep you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I got caught writing on a bus ; I was arrested and charged and told I was going to get a caution . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought my friend was going to get a hiding . |
| 10 | It did n't look as though he was going to get a seat . |
| 11 | Liz had just announced that this conversation had convinced her , and she was going to get a hospital job of some sort , when Juliet suddenly remembered Nigel . |
| 12 | He could hardly know he was going to get a show for his efforts , could he ? ’ |
| 13 | They left the flat but Meehan chased them down the road , shouting he was going to get a gun . |
| 14 | He was going to get a Hun . |
| 15 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 16 | So I thought if I er But I was beginning to get a bit worried so I thought well I might as well go up because I shall start to worry and things get out of proportion with me you see ? |
| 17 | I was beginning to get a sense that people held too many differing visions of Peru , beyond the often mentioned three realities of costa , selva y cordillera . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I 've been there a month and was hoping to get a City and Guilds qualification in joinery . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I 've been there a month and was hoping to get a City and Guilds qualification in joinery . |
| 20 | Yes , he was trying to get a divorce but he could n't . |
| 21 | Mark Williams , freelancing out of It , did some work , and fresh out of Oxford , Jonathon Green was trying to get a job in Fleet Street . |
| 22 | He was trying to get a picture of the life that Steve and Ephraim had had together . |
| 23 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 24 | Annabel was determined to get a grip on herself and do as Scott advised : remember 1965 as the year she stopped having to go to auditions and 1966 as the year in which she blossomed into a successful young New York hostess as she met Andy Warhol , Lenny Bernstein , Baby Jane Holzer , and all the other gossip-columnist fodder . |
| 25 | Donald McCulloch was humming to get a tune going . |
| 26 | Nara was sent to get a bowl of milk from someone who had a cow that was yielding : Kalchu suggested maybe the ā gri or the um in the bottom house on the corner . |