Example sentences of "he [vb past] get a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd got a small garden fork and he started taking out rough bits of grass from the edge of the drive . |
| 2 | He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ? |
| 3 | He 'd got a marvellous set of teeth . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd got a well-developed sense of self-protection , you know , always carried a gun in the glove-pocket of the car . |
| 5 | Now that they 've gone back to school she has a bit of a job with the I 've got ta go you know , I said we 'll have so many people round talking you know she said he 'd got a terrible ! |
| 6 | Ivan fired again , short experimental bursts as if he 'd got a new power-drill from the Christmas tree . |
| 7 | He 'd got a new one where he crossed his feet , and a new version of his smile . |
| 8 | And he never forgive me for this you see because he were a big noise you know , he he 'd got a big business in . |
| 9 | So he certainly did n't pay due care to the pace and the speed and make sure that he 'd got a safe gap before pulling out . |
| 10 | But you know he 'd got a huge parlour there was nothing wrong within this one thing and you know , we tried to drill it out you know |
| 11 | But he he 'd got a little mission er on the side of the at , , I 've I went with him so I saw it . |
| 12 | Yeah At one time we could n't get Jessy to talk , he 'd got a little girl with er and |
| 13 | Do n't you remember once we went round , he 'd got a lovely garden ! |
| 14 | And he 'd say , Well and he 'd got a whole string of Lenin 's books , and he 'd reach down and pick one and turn to the right page straight away , says , This is what Lenin said , and he said , I 'll stand by this , you know . |
| 15 | But to my dismay he said he 'd got a local caddie for Birkdale , and that he 'd misunderstood me when I said I 'd caddie for him anywhere . |
| 16 | However , for someone supposed to be very clever , he seemed to get a great deal of pleasure out of ordinary things . |
| 17 | In the street market he managed to get a wilting lettuce for Henry and Murgatroyd , reduced to fourpence . |
| 18 | He does remember Hollar from ten years ago and that he did get a good degree ( p. 52 ) , and his enthusiasm for the fact is indicated by the emphatic nature of his approbation — " Of course you did . |
| 19 | But , he did get a special price ? |
| 20 | He had got a Burmese staff together with quite a good Anglo-Burman as editor of a daily paper in English called The Liberator with a daily circulation of about five thousand . |
| 21 | He had wanted a male grandchild and he had got a male grandchild ; that should be enough for everybody … [ 18 ] The good news therefore was doubly welcome and caused as much delight at Elmhurst as dismay in Woburn Square , where the John Pontifexes were then living . |
| 22 | Although a scholar , and married with two sons , in 1677 he had got a young girl with child , and then murdered the child ; for which he was condemned to death . |
| 23 | He had got a Double First . |
| 24 | He turned away , and when he had got a safe distance , he began to whistle — a moist whistle that said he was n't really disturbed at all about Arty 's strange behaviour . |
| 25 | That was £45,000 over the odds , even for a brand-new model — and he had to get a secondhand one because back in 1989 the prestige-car market was still booming and the limited supply of Lamborghinis imported from Italy had already been snapped up . |