Example sentences of "they got the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | ‘ They got the other women to call me that so that they would n't like me . |
| 5 | They slept for a while , they got the other bottle , they swam , they talked and sighed , Jessica scanned the Fahan shore for a friendly sail , they slept again . |
| 6 | They got the good dividend . |
| 7 | They got the entire work . |
| 8 | There was a good atmosphere and they got the right result . |
| 9 | They went round the back door and got to John Smith and they got the chief whip and got the chairman of the party and had a rerun of the vote two weeks later . |
| 10 | I mean to me the boss of of our bench , there was probably twenty people on the bench , to me the boss of that it was n't what you call a particularly good job but she 'd always worked at the and of course when when went on War work er th those that were still there they got the better jobs you see , to organize us that had n't been , worked there before . |
| 11 | If anybody got over twenty seven with us they got the yellow ticket . |
| 12 | But surely if they got the yellow book and had , we sent them off in , in a room to actually read that book . |
| 13 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 14 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 15 | They got the french windows and i , it looks it i , really is nice ! |
| 16 | But they got the main job done and now they want to do the same against Spain next month before heading to Belfast for a party . |
| 17 | In that case they got the wrong man . |
| 18 | Apart from the fact they got the wrong ones , as Clare said |
| 19 | They got the wrong island , wrong producers , so what do they know , going on about these mad drug stories and us not getting our shit together ? |
| 20 | They represent enemy ships sunk by torpedoes , and the crossed guns on the left means they 've been in a surface action — that 'd be when they got the German destroyer — and the dagger below is a special operation . ’ |
| 21 | I think the Germans had been after ‘ Salt Peter ’ , but they got the empty coal yard and one or two small buses instead . |
| 22 | Which was , say , when they 'd started the the roll of bacon , there always used to be some little bits before they got the full rashers , well , you could n't sell those , you could n't s I mean even though things were tight in those days , you could n't sell any sort of bacon , you either sold best back , or you sold belly bacon . |
| 23 | Still , they got the difficult jobs done and that was the main thing . |
| 24 | They heard Fats Domino on the radio and tried to copy him but they got the bass drum and the snare all wrong and in the end they created this new music . |