Example sentences of "had [vb pp] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They had stopped to get some fruit for her , and the stall-holder had insisted that it was a gift , refusing Michael 's money as if it was the norm to give his produce away for free . |
| 2 | She had expected to get good advice from Lovat , not a proposal of marriage . |
| 3 | So bloody hard he had fought to get those streets behind him . |
| 4 | Tim had told the other kids , that it was all planned , his father had left to get another job . |
| 5 | Even in the twenty minutes it had taken to get some nourishment , the light had faded and the dull day was darkening into a cold night ; the beginnings of a frost crackled under their feet as they walked briskly along the embankment . |
| 6 | Mr Jenkin said he and other British politicians opposed to Maastricht had tried to get this message across in the run-up to the referendum , but had been defeated by those urging people to vote yes . |
| 7 | Before the end of the summer term , he had tried to get more information about Abbotsfield from Richard . |
| 8 | Mr Burns said American Airlines had aimed to get more routes out of Stansted . |
| 9 | The flight to Paris had been punctuated by periodic bouts of turbulence and consequently neither of them had managed to get much sleep . |
| 10 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 11 | Each was in an envelope ; the envelopes all bore Boy 's name , and the addresses of the twelve different places in which Boy had briefly lived since he had arrived in the city , before he had managed to get this place where he was resident now . |
| 12 | In September 1539 Sir Thomas Heneage told Cromwell that he had managed to get three bills signed by Henry , but there were several others for which his successors in office would have to get that difficult authority , the royal signature . |
| 13 | The expected bag of gifts did not materialise because the Government had failed to get any donations from local businesses like smoked salmon merchants and whisky distillers . |
| 14 | On investigation , they discovered that the first agency had failed to get proper authorisation from Visa for the transaction . |