Example sentences of "[noun prp] got a " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOUSEWIFE Ruth Watkins got a sinking feeling yesterday — when a 470ft deep hole appeared outside her front door . |
| 2 | whether they 're for a , what 's Jim got a Fiat ? |
| 3 | it really was So erm but I do n't know , I , I think if Jim got a ticket , if he got two tickets and he said do you wan na come ? |
| 4 | After a number of rows , Peckinpah got a double to complete the scene . |
| 5 | The stammer fitted Marlowe 's embarrassment and Bernard got a very good press . |
| 6 | Miss Honey got a teapot from the cupboard and put some tea leaves into it . |
| 7 | A nine-metre motor cruiser en route from Lancaster to Holyhead got a tow from a warship yesterday after its engine failed . |
| 8 | Bluster about morning hate and advice to go back to Adolph got a maddeningly cool reply . |
| 9 | Harvey got a piece of canvas out of the front of the car and then pike took his overcoat off and they wrapped the coat into the canvas and strapped it up very tight on a long strap , the other end of which they fixed to the belt of Ralph pike 's overalls . |
| 10 | National Power chief executive John Baker got a 157 per cent increase that lifted his salary from £147,194 to £383,935 . |
| 11 | Big Senga got a lovebite affa guy that was the dead spitta Bible John . |
| 12 | Nutty got a glimpse of Gloria and Seb , jaws dropping , as everyone started to jeer and clap . |
| 13 | Touch and go until the very last minute when Andy Arnott got a third for Gillingham , the end for Hereford ; the end of a night of football fireworks . |
| 14 | Yeats recalls receiving a letter from Lionel Johnson ‘ denouncing Wilde with great bitterness ’ ; Johnson believed that Wilde got a ‘ ‘ sense of triumph and power , at every dinner-table he dominated , from the knowledge that he was guilty of that sin which , more than any other possible to man , would turn all those people against him if they but knew'' ’ ( Yeats , Autobiographies , 285 ) . |
| 15 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
| 16 | CHESTERFIELD boss Chris McMenemy got a special pat on the back for his team 's Coca-Cola Cup draw at Liverpool — from proud dad Lawrie . |
| 17 | Boycott 's 63 held the innings together , Gooch and Gower got a few , Botham walloped 37 off 39 balls and 208 seemed a reasonable total on a pitch helpful to bowlers . |
| 18 | Hereford got a goal back just before half-time … good one too … |
| 19 | Hereford got a goal back with one of the best moves of the game … they can turn it on when they want and it 's affective … |
| 20 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA got a most dispiriting Christmas present on Christmas Eve when the US General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals snatched the $740.3m Desktop IV US Air Force personal computer contract away from Bull 's Buffalo Grove , Illinois-based Zenith Data Systems . |
| 21 | As he came on , Rocky got a great reception from the crowd and a yellow card from the referee . |
| 22 | Cuntona got a 4-match suspension , and scum got fined for their fans ’ behaviour . |
| 23 | Charlotte and Anne worked as governesses for some months , teaching rich children in big houses , and Branwell got a job like that too , for a while . |
| 24 | Went up to , went up to and Barney got a rabbit . |
| 25 | I know that O'Leary got a knock on the head on Tuesday . |
| 26 | The only cheer came when Harry Caffrey got a goal back just before half-time ; that was it , 2-1 to Gillingham . |
| 27 | ‘ One day Uncle Elias got a letter from Pondicherry in India . |
| 28 | It was an accident of course but old Colonel Saunchie got a few pellets in him . |
| 29 | Crosby got a boost yesterday when influential midfielder Gary Owers was given an X-ray all-clear on an ankle injury . |
| 30 | The Emperor Napoleon got a good deal because France would have had to give it up sooner or later anyway , and I got a good deal because Louisiana gave me a lovely companion for life with all the legendary charms of your people . " |