Example sentences of "had got a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 2 | Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen . |
| 3 | At one such meeting a heckler had got a great round of cheers from the assembled throng when he had told Clasper to get off his bloody soap-box and do a day 's work for a bloody change . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And there was the erm there was a top called the window breaker , and it was a special top that had got a long stem on it and a big round like a mushroom , it was like a mushroom almost . |
| 6 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It had survived because it had got a metallic thread running through it . |
| 10 | Me dad had got a decent job for them times , you know he , I think he got thirty bob a week which was a lot of money . |
| 11 | They may not have thought of it as expertise , but when people said to me a particular ward is dirty , I went and looked at it , and in a very short time , within about ten minutes , that ward had got a massive clean-up team in there , that 's the sort of thing that I felt was useful . |
| 12 | Both the media and academia had generations who believed that they had got a production-based right to ‘ do things to people ’ . |
| 13 | Lisa had got a proper job at last , as though tired of waiting for the Revolution . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Where Annie had got an average degree , taught English ‘ O ’ Level , married Mike and had Sally and Alex , settling in London , Sheila had sailed close to the fringes of student politics in the late 1960s , been arrested for demonstrations against the American presence in Vietnam in the war which ended in the early 1970s , squatted with the squatters , and done a variety of part-time nomadic jobs . |
| 16 | You know the kind that if you lived in a house which had got an uneven floor when you opened the door the wardrobe falls over towards you . |
| 17 | and we came to look at this one and it had got an inner hall and in the position was |