Example sentences of "get [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got rather a lot of beans . |
| 2 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 3 | Well , we sort of got together a couple of times — he was an interesting sort of man — done a lot of sailing , single-handed stuff . |
| 4 | Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government . |
| 5 | Between Silver and myself , we got together a crew of the toughest seamen you can imagine . |
| 6 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 7 | Shortly after his arrival he got together a conference of Anglo-Burmans , who agreed that when they returned to Burma they would ally themselves more closely with the people of the country rather than as exclusively with the British side of their heritage as they had tended to do in pre-war days . |
| 8 | Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid . |
| 9 | A research scientist called Mulk got together a group of followers and created two robots , assassination machines designed to put an end to Bangler 's reign of terror , once and for all … |
| 10 | So Ralph got together a group of dealers people like Sidney Janis , Alexandre Rosenberg , Klaus Perls , Pierre Matisse . |
| 11 | We got together a group of important dealers and they all came over and testified , and the gallery owner said the artist was lying , but in the end the show was closed and the gallery closed . |
| 12 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 13 | It 's gettin' so a fella do n't know where he 's dippin' it . |
| 14 | it it got away a bit you know and and |
| 15 | Police who put her on a train said she got home a day after her husband … and ‘ in a foul mood . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've just got rather a cold , ’ she said . |
| 17 | I 've got rather a headache coming on . ’ |
| 18 | I 've got rather a lot on my mind . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She does n't like the Highlands , you know that , and she 's got rather a lot on just at present . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've got rather a lot to catch up on , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd like to ask you out , pumpkin , but I 've got rather a lot to do today . |
| 22 | Seemed to have got rather a lot of margarine on there , hope you 're going to eat all your toast today , not like yesterday |
| 23 | We 've got just a bit of sun . |
| 24 | Well , I 've got just a mouthful and you 've got loads left Susan . |
| 25 | So you 've got just a month to do it in . |
| 26 | He 's got nearly a mile to walk ? |
| 27 | So you 've got nearly a page there so you could |
| 28 | It 's er , only got really a hotel , Monkey Island , that 's all . |
| 29 | You 're perhaps a little nervous of change you have n't got really a desire for adventure or anything too challenging . |
| 30 | and they 've got now a deficit of , life cover there and extra , again you take out one of these for it . |