Example sentences of "get [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE 101st anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh on May 19th got only a muted celebration in Hanoi . |
| 2 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 3 | ‘ Once , Ndah was clean through and he was blatantly brought down by Mike Marsh , who got only a yellow card . |
| 4 | He got together a serious amount of cash and called a meeting with the skaters to ask them what they wanted ; 3 skaters turned up . |
| 5 | Most of them had never been before and was scared , she got just a little bit of water in her mouth and she thought she was drowning but instead of saying drowning she said to me , ‘ I drownded ’ . |
| 6 | Some people thought plastic plates were tacky , but if you used the real thing once you got over a certain number you just had endless mess afterwards . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , Mark Lemmon was again a big disappointment , but the American Donny O'Dom got over an unlucky early disqualification to win two of his next three races . |
| 8 | The warning cry came from Petion , who got off a single shot at Richmann before the mercenary major swung the Winchester around and fired it with a roar . |
| 9 | ‘ From what I 've seen of him , I 'd say he 's got rather a perverse sense of humour and enjoys winding people up , ’ said Melissa , remembering in particular his brush with Alain Gebrec the previous afternoon over the controversial book . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , my husband says I 've got rather a good voice , ’ she responded . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got rather a big order , ’ she said , ‘ mostly for slippers but one or two pairs of shoes I have to make in French calf . ‘ |
| 12 | Goodness knows I 've got only a bare chance of catching her , though . ’ |
| 13 | In this day and age , 100MB is average , and people quite often discover that they 've got only a few kilobytes of space left , and usually at the most inopportune times . |
| 14 | I do n't blame the woman for doing as much as possible on television with in those advertisements because I think that woman have got only a short life in those ads because she 'd get bored with them . |
| 15 | As well as rumours of troops of infantry escorting respectable citizens to afternoon tea in the suburbs , and the recommendation that gentlemen at a loose end because of the shortage of decent game reserves might turn their hand to a new blood-sport — ‘ We have got together a splendid pack this season , and the game is still so plentiful that I 'll bet we 'll show you some really first-rate sport ’ — the ‘ anti-garotte ’ movement launched by Punch invented various kinds of anti-robbery device . |
| 16 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 17 | Over the past years , we 've got together a superb programme of trips and good times to make sure you get the chance to see the very best this island has to offer . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it all the way back from your cottage and I believe I 've got just a tiny little bit of an idea . ’ |
| 19 | I owe you a pound , yeah , I ca n't give it to you dear because I 've still got exactly a ten pound note dear and I 'm waiting for the pools lady dear |
| 20 | Eventually they got away , but they had got hardly a hundred yards down the road when she suddenly screamed out , ‘ We 've left them . ’ |
| 21 | After all , if he could n't get into the England team while the ban was in force , what chance has he got once a world-class player like Gatting becomes available again ? |
| 22 | However , on Saturday he had one of those games when little went right for him and as a result the pack rarely got up a good head of steam . |
| 23 | His mate , driver Sam Webster , gave him a smile of approval and said , ‘ Good lad , young John , now put your injector on , shut it off when you 've got nearly a full ‘ glass ’ , then have a few minutes . |
| 24 | If Sid put £100 ( $175 ) into each of the big privatisations and sold his shares on the first day of trading — as many such investors did — he would ( before expenses ) have got back an extra 41% . |
| 25 | They 've bui got out a new what is it ? |
| 26 | ‘ So I buy an old dump that 's got about a hundred and fifty thousand miles on the clock . |
| 27 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 28 | We 've got about a hundred and fifty . |
| 29 | yeah , you know quite hopeful so what I as I say what I 'm really looking for is I 've got a preference for older properties but you know try not to pin myself down to too much at the moment , I 've got about a hundred and thirty to spend so ideally I 'd like a cottage old style but I do need three bedrooms |
| 30 | ‘ He 's got about a hundred — all kept in marvellous conditions . |