Example sentences of "we get a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 So , we got a real bargain there .
2 We got a grand welcome home .
3 So we got a thousand letters to do that 's all , well it might be over I do n't know they 're but
4 Now I 'm just thinking , so we got a thousand pounds here , I would like to spend this money .
5 We got a small table near the orchestra , which was faking jazz music from their memories and short-wave radio .
6 We got a tremendous shock of course and I was extremely upset because the love of my life had nearly been made part of the road surface .
7 ‘ So we tried — and we got a political appointment anyway .
8 We got a young lady in there once .
9 We got a young woman off sick , and you can take her place ; do n't know when she 'll come back , if she ever does . ’
10 Cantona being the more obvious example , but I cant remember one sale where I thought we got a decent price .
11 We got a good session this afternoon
12 And we used to have a little card , when we went to church we 'd got put a little star , in the squares , and if we did n't go we got a good hiding .
13 We got a good dryer
14 We got a good response and came up with a group of suspects .
15 Well we got a good team .
16 It was disturbing to hear the manager remind questioners of what happened when he made ‘ sensible ’ experiments in Saudi Arabia late last year : ‘ We got a 1-1 draw and a nasty headline . ’
17 A FUNNY GAME ‘ WHEN we got a 12-horsepower roller I assumed we were getting a horse as well ’
18 We got a Dutch hoe , that 's
19 are preferred supplier , for basically we got a hundred percent of the business in the States .
20 So we got but we got a hundred percent acting or something and the two masters are gon na take us out , the five of us out to dinner .
21 ‘ Mum says we got a new lodger , a nice French lady , ’ said Linda .
22 For example : ‘ In 1931 we got a new P[arish] P[riest] .
23 Maybe he did n't get the job , we got a new supervisor coming .
24 We got a nice surprise when we got back . ’
25 Apart from what he found in bins — sweets , unopened crisp packets , seven corned beef sandwiches hygienically wrapped in foil — he went into a Chinese takeaway in a slummy area and asked for ‘ Fried rice leavings ’ and we got a massive pile each , full of scraps of prawn and mushroom and sweet-'n'-sour pork .
26 We got a massive box of them left over from Christmas .
27 Obviously , I mean I know you 're arguing with her but er but if he 'd , if he 'd have go if we got a christian name that night it would n't have gone down as either of those Karen or Fran .
28 Incidentally after that we got a trenchless drainage system installed ; it was like turning on a tap !
29 And then it was oh we did n't , you know , you had a free sample at Cadburys , oh , I said we got a free sample from Jaguar , we got some walnut veneer which is , I suppose , half Cadburys
30 Oh we got a free joke as well !
  Next page