Example sentences of "but [pers pn] get [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You might ask yourselves why I bother writing this , but I get kind of worried when I hear such news .
2 We chatted for a while about the trials and tribulations of being a stately home owner , and there are plenty of headaches I will admit , but I get headaches and nothing else — prices going up , wages going up , everybody wanting their ten per cent , she said .
3 But I get people to the fishing here asking if the boat 's built there .
4 I try doing it , but I get sort of tangled up .
5 Erm but I get situations quite because the dire situation .
6 But I got plans for this money .
7 But I got hold of All Quiet on the Western Front from my brother 's bookshelves .
8 Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that .
9 But I got school ’ —
10 ‘ Yeah , but I got head-hunted .
11 There 's a CP freight train due behind it but I got Sudbury in time and it is n't leaving there .
12 Should be more than a bit but I got Marg .
13 But I got trouble with the ceptor links .
14 But you got money from them .
15 But you got conversation with him and his family two generations of his family at his house perhaps in Croydon .
16 But you got people staring at you , you got people s coming up to you and saying , did n't you used to be Adam Faith ?
17 The food was good , but you got fish for breakfast .
18 I ca n't remember how you get there , I ca n't remember how cards is how many cards it is , but you get loads of cards , with with pictures of different things you have to kiss and it ranges from the hand at one point , navel six points , bottom seven , lips eight points , cheek three points , erm the chest fifteen points and there 's a fig leaf one fig leaf bud in there , fifteen points and you can kiss anything you like .
19 But you get country dancing that 's very energetic really .
20 Yeah , but you get Jean something as well .
21 These cost more , but you get accommodation and food in with the price , plus around five dives a day .
22 Cracking plants really good ones , and alright , they 're not , they 're not the cheapest in the world , but you get quality plants
23 But you get quality , oh yes you get what you pay for
24 It may have been painful but she got things moving .
25 But we got flights from Gatwick to Vancouver , leaving on the 10th .
26 But we got brickbats instead of justice when we exposed young mother Lucy Marshall in October last year for dealing in drugs .
27 ‘ We did n't get the rub of the green and felt we deserved something , but we got zilch and I think it is because this Villa side are so good .
28 He 's multiple in disability , but we get help in Kilmarnock from Salvation Army , who take him during the day , FAB club where I go with him at night , and the hospital , Curtlingside now , who take him for respite social and everything .
29 For instance , chicken pox is usually a disease of childhood , arthritis usually affects the elderly , but we get colds or flu at any age .
30 But we get results . ’
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