Example sentences of "they get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For their money , they got traditional advice — Gover would always try to get batsmen to live up to the technical ideal of Jack Hobbs — put in an unstuffy and flexible way : ‘ We would fit the mould to the customers , not the other way round . ’ |
| 2 | And so , they were far too f They got far things far too reduced in price , to have said much about it , it was the accepted world , then . |
| 3 | They got long poles on the back step . |
| 4 | It is n't broadcast to the rest of the manor by the way they got close circuit T V . |
| 5 | Normally I like looking through books — you know , if they got nice pictures and that in them , but I du n no — I just ai n't very interested at the moment . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |
| 7 | And they , and they got thirty-odd year ! |
| 8 | Well they they got reasonable care because , like I said , that was , that was the the owner knew that er that was his livelihood then |
| 9 | The trading employees in India were not paid salaries in the modern sense of income they could live on ; they got small retainers , starting at perhaps £5 a year , and it was taken for granted that they would supplement their retainers by trading , sometimes acting as agents buying the goods that would eventually be exported by the Company ( though this could easily lead to fraud ) , but more often dealing for their own account . |
| 10 | Bill Oddie was the first comedy hippy , they had stupid hit singles ( something Python only managed ten years after the event ) , they got stuffy BBC presenters to do daft things ( Raymond Baxter in string underpants ) and , true to form , they went to ITV in 1980 and were crap . |
| 11 | Using samplers , slowed-down tapes , echo-box , fuzz , wah wah , bullhorns , saws , car doors ( from which they got slowed-down squeaking sounds ) , and tapes of cattle lowing , they plumbed new depths of the bass-spectrum , new limits in the degradation and deterioration of sound . |
| 12 | But they were making a tally , they got little things , you know , like . |
| 13 | Yeah like they got little metal plates |
| 14 | And they got little trousers at the bottom . |
| 15 | One end is and the other one ai n't , and it was a yacht and a yacht , they got little rooms in or something cos in n it ? |
| 16 | Today they got full backing from the visiting Prison 's Minister . |
| 17 | window sill on there , say , and then this comes down and they got French windows at the bottom . |
| 18 | . they got , they got wicked raga music over there . |
| 19 | Now people are n't as open , but that 's because they got taken advantage of . ’ |
| 20 | Medical and veterinary faculties ( for which the competition was high , the numbers limited ) could lay down that candidates would not be considered unless they got high grades in physics , chemistry and biology at A level . |
| 21 | Mind you , if they got big hooves like plates of meat you know , great big |
| 22 | But some people got twenty six and they got yellow tickets as well . |
| 23 | Whilst projects were delighted when they got pump-priming money they also had to draw on a range of local resources . |
| 24 | I knew a family — six children in that case there were — they got evicted neck and crop just because they cracked a drainpipe . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't be hard on the lad , ’ said Pete , ‘ They got different problems , that 's all . ’ |
| 26 | Thing about up north is they got good woman |
| 27 | Have they got automatic windows ? |
| 28 | And why have they got English voices ? |
| 29 | have they got hard matches left or |
| 30 | What is it , have they have they got little things like little |