Example sentences of "had get [adj] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 I wondered if David had got this evening to catch a bottle of wine
18 One of , one of , one of the women had got this final six did she win ?
19 Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work .
20 He wondered suddenly if she had got any fun out of her marriage to Peter Dawson .
21 Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday .
22 Oh ye er this had got educational video on the thing
23 But where the uproar has come from is from people who have thought that they had got binding court agreements .
24 They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them .
25 I had to get one bag I did n't like to ask her for two .
26 It was that he had had printed a leaflet , which he was taking to hotels , restaurants , shops , advertising his firm : Philip Fowler , Builder and Decorator ; that he had to get real work , soon ; that he thought he had contributed more than his share to this house , which was now in working order .
27 If a girl had two parents still at home , she had to get written permission from both of them before performing .
28 All Girls under twenty-one had to get written permission from their parents and although fathers still tended to be against the idea , no one appeared to have committed forgery .
29 And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between .
30 She had to get some rest or she was going to fall apart .
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