Example sentences of "he get a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got a real kick out of it too , always looking for new ways to uglify the home . |
| 2 | Spectacular French star Jean-Philippe Ruggia waited until February before he got a 500 GP ride for ‘ 91 . |
| 3 | At 17 he went to Cambridge on a scholarship to study maths in which he got a first-class degree three years later . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , he got a first-class lead and he followed it up , ’ protested Philip Kelly . |
| 5 | He got a small part in a hospital drama . |
| 6 | But the ‘ big apple ’ had no appeal to Sam , although he got a temporary job in the ‘ rag trade ’ . |
| 7 | Several times he tore his hands and barked his shins , and once he missed his footing and came crashing several yards down the slope before he got a desperate grip with fingers and toes and knees , and clung sweating till he recovered his breath . |
| 8 | Frank is driven out in the darkest darkness in Leeds , but he got a golden oppurtunity when he was selected for Drillos squad to play USA [ and Costa Rica — killers of Sweden in last WC for those who remember — my comm. ] later this month . |
| 9 | The past includes a violent father who walked out on the family when Banks was 12 , and running away from home himself at 18 to join Castro ( ‘ In the late Fifties , remember , he got a great press in the States . |
| 10 | He got two week ones then he got a four week one . |
| 11 | All your twenties were on her little list and when Mr Nassim put them in the bank yesterday he got a nasty shock . |
| 12 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 13 | Once the letter was sent he regretted the remark — and he got a frosty reply from Sir Randolph . |
| 14 | I mean , there were a couple of occasions , when he got a cheap negotiator , other people joined in as well , and then , I do n't know , you got three or four different |
| 15 | He got a long sentence . |
| 16 | After all , you got your hat back and he got a nice tip . |
| 17 | ‘ He was still prepared enough to face reality to reorganise his own mortgage so he got a fixed interest rate for the next three years . |
| 18 | He got a chronic pseudomonas infection low down in his lungs , and he was having longer and longer spells in hospital . |
| 19 | He got a buzzing feeling and thought the place quite extraordinary . |
| 20 | When Norman walked in all dressed up with his hair slicked back , he got a muted response and one wag shouted ‘ on that count you 've got about three supporters ! ’ . |
| 21 | what he wanted to do and and then he got a reasonable pass and went off to university . |
| 22 | Ramsay certainly obtained a kiss and a hug from Mariot in farewell , but in front of the others it was not of the sort to analyse carefully ; indeed he got a similar embrace from Black Agnes . |
| 23 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 24 | And he , he got a good price for them with them being washed for to put potatoes in . |
| 25 | Just before he got a good grip he went , he got a grip and he was just about to squeeze this , I went I sort of went of tiptoes and I goes , I 'll let it slide this time . |
| 26 | ‘ I took Fleck off and that did n't work so I took Le Saux off , put Eddie up front and he got a vital goal — and it 's the second time he 's done that for us . ’ |
| 27 | He got a good-natured reprimand from Mona for not setting a good example to the lower classes . |
| 28 | If he did n't answer the leg , he got a quick reminder from the schooling whip — something I should have done but had chickened out of because Skipper 's reaction to a schooling whip had been to throw some rather impressive bucks . |
| 29 | One of the Germans , wearing a surprising black-and-white checked cloth cap , made an operation out of buying coffee through the window , and held up the train while he got a missing straw . |
| 30 | Paul says : ‘ I do n't think he got a fair shake . |