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

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1 Donald had got four sponge rolls , three jumbo packets of cornflakes , five loaves of bread , some digestive biscuits , a square packet of something called Uncle Sam ‘ s Chocolate Chip Cookies , a Battenburg cake and two mixed , assorted crisps , in bags that were the size of a small dustbin .
2 I had got one souvenir and if not identifiable with the shed , at least I knew where it had come from .
3 This person had got one son about twelve , and her husband was in the Forces as well .
4 The rich , Constance held , had got that way by grinding the faces of the poor and taking the tax man for a ride .
5 Ultimately we were given that assurance and er we were quite proud of the fact that , you know , the members had gone along with us on the proviso that we had got that principle you know , to establish .
6 How she had got that name no-one dared ask .
7 She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know
8 Thought the referee was a bit hasty pulling player back cos Leicester had got good possession .
9 I had got first prize for guitar at the Melody Maker contest and soon I was selling stories and now I find my principal interest is still p H.
10 big sand stone rocks , they find things that fish today er had , had got other pediments that million years back , same thing , but not , not , not the same as they are today , you know , well they must of got hold of it to be different from a million years ago
11 And he dragged out his sticky labels which , which had got blue stripes on them
12 that was n't terribly elegant but anyway his blue labels had got , these little sticky labels had got blue stripes on them
13 Paul Lexington and Wallas Ward had had to devote much energy to smoothing ruffled feathers , nobody had got much sleep , and everything was way behind schedule .
14 And each one had got different letters of the alphabet ion it and that 's how we learnt the alphabet .
15 Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres .
16 Er , you then had got another ticket , and er train ticket , and you went to the south of France by train , and er you got a bed and a couple of meals there er then you had a bus ride .
17 Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her that her own two younger children had got itchy feet at sixteen too , and left school : her son had gone on to a sixth form college which he found highly satisfying — ‘ One 's treated like an adult , ’ and her daughter to do a foundation course in art .
18 Surely I had got some things clearer since he died ?
19 In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time .
20 Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure .
21 The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason .
22 Oh yes , the interesting part there , in those days , was that the majority of the children were in the same boat , we were all poor and er m the Town Council had got this skating ring at Mansfield , roller skating ring , near the Gas Works , where they provided a school meal for all the children that could there during the hour lunch .
23 And they had got this contract for this er this lawyer who there was a great big er case it had run for long enough .
24 I wondered if David had got this evening to catch a bottle of wine
25 One of , one of , one of the women had got this final six did she win ?
26 The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed .
27 So the fact that Bolton before tonight had got three points as too had Notts , is er indicative of the fact that Notts need to win tonight and they could do with Bolton losing .
28 They had got three kiddies that 's right , cos the council housed them .
29 Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work .
30 He wondered suddenly if she had got any fun out of her marriage to Peter Dawson .
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