Example sentences of "he get [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was no sound of a human voice enquiring for his safety ; he shouted that he was safe , but gave up when he got no re-assuring reply ; he wondered if his friends had reached safety or had been caught under the falling rock .
2 He got a real kick out of it too , always looking for new ways to uglify the home .
3 Spectacular French star Jean-Philippe Ruggia waited until February before he got a 500 GP ride for ‘ 91 .
4 At 17 he went to Cambridge on a scholarship to study maths in which he got a first-class degree three years later .
5 ‘ Look , he got a first-class lead and he followed it up , ’ protested Philip Kelly .
6 He got a small part in a hospital drama .
7 But the ‘ big apple ’ had no appeal to Sam , although he got a temporary job in the ‘ rag trade ’ .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 He got two week ones then he got a four week one .
12 All your twenties were on her little list and when Mr Nassim put them in the bank yesterday he got a nasty shock .
13 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 .
14 Once the letter was sent he regretted the remark — and he got a frosty reply from Sir Randolph .
15 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
16 He got a long sentence .
17 After all , you got your hat back and he got a nice tip .
18 ‘ 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 .
19 He got a chronic pseudomonas infection low down in his lungs , and he was having longer and longer spells in hospital .
20 He got a buzzing feeling and thought the place quite extraordinary .
21 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 ! ’ .
22 what he wanted to do and and then he got a reasonable pass and went off to university .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 He got a new series .
26 And he , he got a good price for them with them being washed for to put potatoes in .
27 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 .
28 ‘ 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 . ’
29 He got a good-natured reprimand from Mona for not setting a good example to the lower classes .
30 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 .
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