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