Example sentences of "and get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , I first started feeling I was overweight when I fourteen and I was , I was twelve stone and I went to the doctor and got black capsules to take which had me as high as a kite for a long time ! |
| 2 | 10,000 Maniacs toured the UK extensively last year and got great responses . |
| 3 | 10,000 Maniacs toured the UK extensively last year and got great responses . |
| 4 | The notion took hold in Vicente at an early age and got serious reinforcement when he arrived in America from his native Spain ( by way of Paris ) and began to form lasting relationships with many other , then unknown , artists of the New York avant-garde . |
| 5 | However we stopped and got good directions . |
| 6 | At other times in vacations he spent weeks doing hard reading in the library of Cambridge University and got good talks with Hoskyns . |
| 7 | I mean he tried the Forest defence out on the left-hand side t to start with switched the player and got young Lewis in and really Forest could have done with a better ball er sorry Leicester could have done with a better final ball from Lewis . |
| 8 | She 's ha , she 's been sneezing and got runny nose have n't you ? |
| 9 | ‘ We have n't as a rule the problems of the petrochemical industry , where some parts of the industry in the past put in huge new additional capacity and got gross over-production . |
| 10 | He matched the record of six A-level passes at grade A — AND got top marks in the Cambridge entrance exams . |
| 11 | We came to the hospital and got medical treatment and you can see that we are all right . ’ |
| 12 | If he had a small pond it used to be was two and sixpence that 's all they used to charge , but of course the other boats , now the boats that used to come from Rotterdam they would n't fill up there and they were Dutch boats , they would n't fill up in water out of the Rhine in Rotterdam , they always wait until they come to Ipswich and got fresh water . |
| 13 | Other girls graduated from the PZ high schools and got Senior Proms , but she had known she was a grown-up woman the day she ripped Bruno 's rotten throat out for him . |
| 14 | photographs , she sent me three lovely photographs taken in erm i in St Helens Road the day of her party on the Sunday before Christmas and they were so good I 've ha I 've , I 've got , rushed out and got little frames for them . |
| 15 | When we all went to the pub and some of them went up and got non-alcoholic drinks and that , and they all said they could n't go into a pub and do that and they done it , no problem . |
| 16 | At the quarter marker he asked for canter and got extended trot . |
| 17 | You know , young , homeless people we pick up on this bus and er , we have , we we 've sort of ended up pursuing their cases with the housing department and getting temporary accommodation . |
| 18 | In the Third World 's most isolated region — the South Pacific — an innovative organisation is tackling serious health problems with a simple outreach programme … and getting extraordinary results . |
| 19 | We had to go back to Porto to clear Customs back into Spain , and getting decent Met information was proving difficult . |
| 20 | ‘ I think success depends on people getting together and getting committed people to help . |
| 21 | An Affiliate membership will also be available to those concerned with following the progress of specifications and getting early access to X/Open publications and guides , though no price was given . |
| 22 | Second , that I am not in a position of knowledge and I ca n't deliver some goods to them ; that basically , I 'm on a journey and I will hate the techniques I 'm learning for unpicking the threads of my life by becoming assertive and getting new knowledge with them . |
| 23 | I do hope that each and everyone has been hard at work encouraging your class members to renew their membership and getting new class members to join the Society . |
| 24 | They might n't win Brightside , adds Doreen , but they 're hopeful of Hillsborough and getting good returns in Hallam , where reigned South Yorkshire 's lone Tory . |
| 25 | The show which comes to Darlington Arts Centre on Thursday is playing to sell- out audiences on its national tour and getting good reviews into the bargain . |
| 26 | Whatever ramblers may think of mountain bikers ( and I will be the first to admit that they can occasionally be annoying ) , the fact is that they are mostly young people , enjoying the countryside , keeping fit and getting fresh air , which is surely something we all subscribe to . |
| 27 | will be offering advice and help , and getting initial reactions to the new qualifications . |
| 28 | The population , it was added , was for the most part interested only in their daily problems of work and getting sufficient provisions , and there was little talk about military events . |
| 29 | It 's not beyond some people in churches to lift a phone and get young people up . |
| 30 | It 's not beyond some people in churches to lift a phone and get young people up . |