Example sentences of "he [vb past] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However little his lordship might think of Birmingham or a Birmingham man , he failed to get admission that night to the platform and was ‘ left swearing ’ . |
| 2 | He was concerned that Clift 's continuing sessions with Silverberg were making him worse , and he tried to get Silverberg to commit Clift to Silver Hill Sanatorium for a hopeful cure . |
| 3 | He tried to get Nellie interested in all the arrangements . |
| 4 | He 'd last eaten about four hours earlier , in the same small cafe where he 'd got Slater to tell him about Sara that January . |
| 5 | It must be an a , because he , he , he , he said he 'd got chance of one but it did whacking great six inch er sixteen inch wheels on ! |
| 6 | He kept on , and it was worse because he 'd got hold of the helmet now and was smashing it against the toilet . |
| 7 | Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him . |
| 8 | ‘ He 'd got business . |
| 9 | Of course they would for a start , I have n't done anything , all that sort of business , but he was extremely good and I think the reason that he 'd got admissions quicker than we did , was partly by virtue of the fact that he was the boss of the department . |
| 10 | Amiss decided not to mention the dead bodies he 'd been coming across since he 'd got chummy with Jim Milton . |
| 11 | Of course , he played war that he 'd got rubbish for his dinner , but he 'd got everything I could give him . |
| 12 | He 'd got Miss Lockwood into the cottage hospital . |
| 13 | Erm , from what I knew of erm I knew he 'd got access to firearms . |
| 14 | He 'd got sort of hard in consequence . |
| 15 | And the first letter told me that he 'd got stomach upset . |
| 16 | Of course he ca n't do the job that he was doing and he 'd got potential of the future with , you understand what I mean ? |
| 17 | Then he started getting Girls from Blackpool , they were a better class . |
| 18 | ‘ He needed to get Sir Charles out of the Hall at night . |
| 19 | When the guests had gone he managed to get Chris alone and tell her . |
| 20 | Wherever he was in the world he managed to get hold of all the important rugby results . |
| 21 | Ken 's own television series , International Cabaret had started making an impact , and he was a guest on shows like Juke Box Jury and Call My Bluff , on which he managed to get Joe to appear . |
| 22 | He managed to get Maidstone inside the building and upstairs without upsetting the portiera too much . |
| 23 | He remembered getting grapes from the greenhouse in the twenties as a boy . |
| 24 | Henry was n't nosy but he liked to get things straight . |
| 25 | Maximilian , wanting to make sure he had got things right , repeated in German to Willoughby what Edward had just said , and Willoughby , who spoke German , nodded wanly . |
| 26 | It was much more , he thought as he moved the boiling pan off the stove and on to the floor , trying to ignore the unholy smell of bleach that came off it as it sloshed against the sides of the vessel , that he had simply woken up one morning and realized , to use a phrase a friend had used about someone else 's wife , ‘ what he had got hold of ’ . |
| 27 | Anselm had not yet visited Canterbury , but he had got hold of the one thing necessary for understanding the members of the old monastic community : they wanted recognition of their saints and understanding of their tradition . |
| 28 | This Ethiopian , he had come to Jerusalem , he was a , he was a a , go , a Godly man , he was seeking after the things of God , and he had come to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to worship God , and he was returning home , and he had got hold of the scroll that had Isaiah fifty three in it , and he was reading it , and Philip goes up to the man in the chariot , he said , do you understand what you 're reading ? |
| 29 | He had got Sir Geoffrey 's note when he 'd looked into his own office at lunchtime . |
| 30 | I wondered at what point he had got religion . |