Example sentences of "get [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was going to make a song and dance when we got the 100th subscriber , but 98 's near enough .
2 Dad got the first cheque through the post today .
3 Underwood got the first try , following a searing diagonal run by Heslop , and then returned the compliment by giving Heslop the scoring pass for the second .
4 … half the year had gone , the clear smoke-free distances of early summer a thing of the past , and midsummer day over , before I got the first clue .
5 ‘ You do n't know where Mrs Howard got the first clue about this ? ’
6 ‘ I got the first ferry I could after I heard …
7 We set off , stopped at random , pottered around , changed our plans , and got the first crossing from a port we had n't arrived at .
8 Captain Fuchs got the first warning seven minutes after leaving Schiphol airport at 6.22 Sunday evening .
9 Middle of the following week and we got the first reconciliation yesterday .
10 until we got the first order .
11 It was at this moment , with a faint feeling that made the hair on his head prickle , that Coffin got the first intimation that even if it was not his case , he himself was in it .
12 He got the first laugh of the show , a big one .
13 anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor
14 It was a woman who got the first question in , her voice rising shrilly above the others .
15 Garry Nelson got the first goal for Charlton a real scramble , after Steve White had accidentally headed against his own post .
16 Leroy May got the first goal … that set the fans dancing … and United went thro on penalties … it was one of their best nights of the year …
17 Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds
18 I remember being thrilled when I got the first whicker of recognition from my horse and most people feel happier and more confident riding a horse they know — even if it is n't well behaved !
19 Mr Gibson said : ‘ My wife Pat phoned to tell me what happened and I just packed my bag and got the first flight . ’
20 However , I had hardly got started before I got the first complaint .
21 That Aldus got the first version so nearly right is a considerable tribute to their talents .
22 It was on one of Mike 's rest days , when I went along with Christophe to do some sound recordings , that we got the first view of what was to become an obsession for Mike and me over the next two and a half years .
23 I got the first shot in : one good punch .
24 Paul Holcroft got the second try .
25 not got the second part , anyway , he phoned up about ten to two and said , but , but before that she had said that he had met Mark
26 James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment .
27 You were looking a bit sorry for yourself when we came back cos he buys flowers and he gives , so he 'll buy them the day before , I got the next day , there their making in all that
28 I got The Last Boy Scout .
29 I got The Last Boy Scout .
30 But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple .
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