Example sentences of "they [verb] get [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And th th and they would be police ones if they 'd got blue lights and |
| 2 | And these stewardesses you know , they 're only just tall and ordinary you know well they they 'd got black tights , got black'uns on you know , all wore black'uns . |
| 3 | And they 'd got some funny things but they 'd got foreign names and I thought well |
| 4 | they 'd got little bits to do , but there was |
| 5 | They 've got long beaks like that . |
| 6 | . There 's quite a service buses plus they 've got mini buses running around all over the shop as well so . |
| 7 | no they 've got ordinary ones here but I mean these , are a whole lot expensive than they were at W Smith 's , yes , erm I just do n't believe this price no I suppose they 're three for one fifty nine , but that 's the size I got |
| 8 | They 've got other things to think about . ’ |
| 9 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |
| 10 | I 'm not saying they 're not willing , but they 've got other drags on them . |
| 11 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 12 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 13 | They have many more management techniques , which we did n't have — which we 've given them — and of course they 've got new ideas coming along as well. , Pearce 's own progression within Esso was a series of the grasped opportunities he talks about enthusiastically . |
| 14 | They assume that when a child hears ‘ Two twos are four , two threes are six ’ that they 've got various pictures in their heads , various ideas onto which to attach these symbols and these words . |
| 15 | My Peter and they 've got rotten coughs . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , they 've got great stories like olden times . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ They 've got great stadiums , good rugby organisations and very astute administrators from both a corporate and organisations point of view . |
| 18 | I was in Woolworths the other day an they 've got smocked dresses now , hand smocked dresses . |
| 19 | They 've got nice boys up Walthamstow . |
| 20 | Some guys are n't going to be able to walk for a week — they 've got tattered feet , but er nobody begrudges it , nobody begrudges it at all . |
| 21 | cos I do n't know why they 've got blooming queues in fish shop |
| 22 | They 've got certain channels and ways of doing things and they 're loathe to venture outside of them . |
| 23 | You know often they do n't stay through the whole meeting but if they 've got specific points to bring up you know th you know it 's flexible really you know sort of depending on what 's going on really . |
| 24 | ‘ Listen , Jack , Dad and Steve — they 've got lousy jobs at Sakata . |
| 25 | They 've now got the quality right , they 've got good models and it' a very good sales and marketing strategy . |
| 26 | And they 've got good reasons for what they do . |
| 27 | They 've got good jobs . |
| 28 | She says they 've got good facilites and can cater for children up to 16 . |
| 29 | Introverts are more the other way round whereas they 've got narrow interests , narrow fields of interest but they look at them in depth . |
| 30 | In an apparent non sequitur , the speaker added : ‘ They 've got intransigent problems , but so far they have n't succumbed to the blandishments of the communists ; that 's why the west pours money in ’ . |