Example sentences of "get [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They continued chatting for a while , in which time Nigger got the definite impression that the six months in jail that Terry told him he had recently endured for receiving stolen property , had taught him nothing at all .
2 RETIRED hospital porter George Gibbs got the perfect cure for his cash worries — he scooped £10,000 on Daily Mirror Bingo .
3 Mellor , again , who realises that it was irascibility over broadcasters in general that got the then government into the fine mess from which he had to extract it .
4 He got the facial resemblances easily enough , having a certain gift for hazy romantic portraiture .
5 England got the all-important shot that took them through to the final which they lost 19-8 to Ireland .
6 and you got the blue seats , so you 've got red , white and blue have n't you ?
7 Philip , affectionately supported by the two women , got the hot water system working .
8 I told him that when he came up the ramp he must accelerate on the throttle at speed so that he got the front wheel up in the air , so he would n't nosedive and hurt himself .
9 Mario got the preferred equipment and Ronnie made up for it in sheer aggression .
10 And , I got the great accolade the following season when he said , well you 're not as bad as I thought you would be !
11 Because we got the right name !
12 Well what used to be simple and straightforward now leaves you with th wondering whether you got the right card in your pocket
13 You sure you got the right place , Antoine ? ’
14 Mm some people decided they were going to work as a , as a group on their table , to gather information and when you were doing the tallies last week , you helped each other did n't you , some of you helped , you were talking to one another to help make sure that you got the right number of tallies , if you worked with some other people to get the survey questions and do the tallies , sign it , if you did everything on your own , leave it blank is anyone not sure what to do there ?
15 No being what I thought I was a man in those days I was n't really interested in them , but I know there was competitions and er I believe there was different numbers posted on windows and if you got the right number you got a prize but I remember Palfry Park I 'm having trouble with my eyes I 've got over-active tear ducts and
16 There was a good atmosphere and they got the right result .
17 But once I got the right victim , finding the right murderer became easier . ’
18 Er , if you can remember at school working out equations , as long as you filled in the , the right bits in the right place , you got the right answer .
19 ‘ Sure you got the right button ? ’
20 One of the lads go in front , or you have a travel head lad , you got the spare lads who ride a hack .
21 Well , you learned to hold your own in those days , but some , some of them were n't too particular about bathing and what washing you know things like that , but er you got the usual crop of pigeon flies but there was no hooliganism , occasionally when , when it was election time and when Sir Richard was candidate for one year I remember , they came round and the people from Street and round that road they paraded through Caldmore and Palfry and there was a little bit of rough stuff went on there heckling and booing and shouting , but I do n't think any harm done .
22 Initially we got the usual diet of karate and war films .
23 ‘ He said he would buy me a hat and I told him we 'd wait until they got the new 'uns in ; but when we come to it a week or two later he would n't spend his money .
24 The development strategy adopted in the Greater York study never envisaged that the settlement , or the district that got the new settlement would therefore get a corresponding reduction in the amount of land it had to provide to meet the needs of the Greater York area , the strategy we use to identify sites within the Greater York area that could be developed without compromising greenbelt objectives , and that the new settlement would be added on outside that area without a reduction in that that figure .
25 But do n't forget this this is a very important time with the all the increase coming in they 've got a helluva lot to take on , not just learning the company but they got the new routes and everything and it 's going to leave I would 've thought very short in an exceptionally busy period
26 So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones .
27 You said you were gon na change it all round when you got the new sofa .
28 I was interested too that got the new phonebooks
29 and he said it 's got worse since he got the new switchboard operator , which makes you think
30 I just got the new shirts .
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