Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] get a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember once getting a tap round the head from my dad . |
| 2 | Although the trees are still leafless , I do not get a glimpse of the hall until it is within a stone 's throw , so hidden is it by a dense screen of boughs and underwood ; but I know it is near at hand , for an ancient archway spans the path leading to the farmyard , and just beyond the Tudor gateway bearing several clear-cut coats of arms . |
| 3 | I 'm going to be lively until I get a cat , if I do n't get a cat I 'm going to be lively for ever . |
| 4 | I do n't get a look in , I do n't . |
| 5 | I do n't get a go ? |
| 6 | Well I do n't get a diary |
| 7 | Next day the place is flooded so I do n't get a chance to play with Trevino , just stand on the practice ground and watch him hit balls . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to finish getting my Nature collection while we 're here , look you , in case I do n't get a chance again , ’ Jill confided to Jennifer , her Sixer . |
| 9 | I 've had books back to back , and , as a result , I do n't get a chance to do much else . |
| 10 | I 've had books back to back , and , as a result , I do n't get a chance to do much else . |
| 11 | Well I said , If I do n't buy , I do n't get a chance of selling . |
| 12 | Oh I do n't get a chance . |
| 13 | And my shirt is filthy and I 'm filthy , and if I do n't get a bath soon I 'll start to smell ! , |
| 14 | If I clean these and I do n't get a pound these are going in the pond |
| 15 | ‘ Erm — er — I do n't see how I 'm going to get all this sweeping done before dinner time , if I do n't get a move on ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Oh my God , if I do n't get a move on I 'm going to be late . ’ |
| 17 | Mother says if I do n't get a move on the line will die out . ’ |
| 18 | Paul from Tamworth says er I 'm a single man looking after my children and I do n't get a penny from my ex-wife . |
| 19 | Yeah well , I do n't , I do n't get a dinner before I go up to bed . |
| 20 | I do n't get a lot of time . ’ |
| 21 | I mean the Halifax charged me three hundred pounds for this and I 've already got a mortgage with them , so they do n't need to do any sort of er er in depth surveys , or , or , or assessments on the house . |
| 22 | Cos I 've already got a pension scheme running . |
| 23 | Presumably they did n't know I 've already got a copy of the catalogue . |
| 24 | I 've already got a tape recorder have n't I ? |
| 25 | Oh I 've not got a prawn and cocktail or them little tiny fish nanny had . |
| 26 | And erm we 've just actually we 've just erm I 've not got a sample of it , we 've just got another louvre called a which is erm a P V C it 's more sort of similar to erm erm you know the the slats on a venetian blind |
| 27 | You , you , I 've not got a slip |
| 28 | I 've practically got a computer inside my head . |
| 29 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 30 | I 'm not like overly fat or anything , I 'm the right weight for what I 'm , for my height like but I 've just got a pot belly |