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

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1 He said she got rings , she got necklaces , she got two or three watches .
2 But the Euro-sceptics got support from an unexpected source on Monday evening .
3 Looking back on the community 's experience of opposition , she reflected ‘ If we had got going earlier , and got support from all the locals , if we had n't waffled for ages , and demonstrated properly , and been more vocal — we had difficulty raising money , we just could n't raise money — we would have made an impact .
4 No , it started at our first show in Glasgow , and then we got support slots with Mudhoney before we were a developed band .
5 I got support from my sister , but I did miss them .
6 I also got support from er Labour Labour Party in Leith who sent down two volunteers to help me .
7 ‘ You mean if I got kind of aroused right now , I should n't fight it or flounder , or try to control it , but just be it . ’
8 ‘ There are some really good women writers around at the moment ; Shawn Colvin 's excellent , and so 's a woman called Ferron , although she got kind of pigeonholed into ‘ women 's music ’ , and I think that 's limited her audience .
9 sort of got kind of an odd relationship between the friends
10 I 'll bet it got kind of cosy at night !
11 C. I got O level in Maths and Biology ;
12 He got O and he got i
13 Yeah , we got P T H , through hole
14 Frequently congregations made free gilts to their ministers but as these were often wealthy congregations which could also afford a high salary the bonus served as icing to an already rich cake : Joseph Parker , for example , got £1,000 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ministry and John Clifford was given a round-the-world trip when his health failed in 1897 .
15 so you got mollycoddle in a way , have n't you , so you know you say
16 Some of us got debts .
17 ‘ Fortunately , the United States and Irish camps came to our rescue , and we got Marcus out on to the track .
18 ‘ I got Colin on to them . ’
19 How many you got Stewart ?
20 And if Rob Andrew got sympathy for his injury , how about the case of Philippe Sella , who led his side until 56 minutes in spite of his poor condition caused by the class with Andrew ?
21 In Hungary these remained dominant and the wholly landless serfs got freedom without any land at all .
22 If they , they got they got piecework or they got th th the , they get either piecework or they get so much for the job so much , an hourly rate for the job .
23 So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them
24 We knocked on doors and got signatures and erm .
25 Then they tore in a wild , bumpy , breakneck race across the rough heath to Scawby Marsh and got ropes round the poor terrified pony just in time to keep him above the shifting surface before the marsh engulfed him .
26 picked pottery , some of you got building material , this lad here and someone round there , right , and a couple of you picked a piece of shell .
27 Wilton carp , even got Wilton carpets in it , ah ?
28 Do n't you got to , you got Wolverhampton one of yours have you ?
29 She got leukaemia ?
30 When he sold his stations in 1985 , he got $2bn — 15 times the cash flow of the stations , rather than the usual multiple of nine to 11 .
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