Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] had get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was n't interested in numbers , he used strategic analysis as the basis for fundamental decisions , which was the biggest change I had to get used to . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 4 | It was the return of Kevin Keegan to the North-East which had got Archie to thinking back . |
| 5 | Just a soldier who had got too big for his boots . |
| 6 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 7 | I felt well bloody marvellous , you now , i it was that imperative it had got ta be done , you ca n't have time o no I 'm sorry you ca n't ! |
| 8 | His palms were still red from the belting he had got for talking that afternoon . |
| 9 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 10 | After marriage he had got fatter , and less lively . |
| 11 | Indeed , Fabia was still wondering how the deuce he had got her talking about music when they transferred to an equally gracious and charming dining-room . |
| 12 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 13 | how to be ta er the wheels on that fire engine it had got the registration , had you noticed ? |
| 14 | houses in them days , if you worked on a p work on a place , you had to live on a place , you see , if you got the sack you had to get out of 'em . |
| 15 | Of course you had to get them . |
| 16 | While they waited in the room , which was furnished like a nursing home , with the child reading a comic on the bed and eating a bag of shortbread biscuits , she thought that it was as well to be next door to the railway station in case she had to get away quickly . |
| 17 | We were on holiday in the Aegean when I was getting better from this talking thing and she was reading Crime and Punishment , and I used to watch her toes and wonder which part she had got to . |
| 18 | What a job I had getting him pulled out . |
| 19 | From what they said , she had shrunk into a shell from the moment she had got on board , going off by herself whenever she could . |
| 20 | She launched into a brief account of her visit to Puddephat 's rooms , leaving vague what she had done there and making much of the fright she had got when the fire bell went off . |
| 21 | ‘ Take care , ’ said Rufus , and not looking back any more than he had done when they returned from the cemetery , drove off round the town he had got to know so well , over the Stour bridge , into Essex , heading for Halstead and Dunmow and Ongar and London . |
| 22 | I wondered at what point he had got religion . |
| 23 | It was part of the routine he had got used to . |
| 24 | Back in the waiting room it had gotten twice as crowded . |
| 25 | And we went up there and we had just we 'd , we took the labour rooms and er of course we had got a cup of tea with them you know ? |
| 26 | We had a wholesalers of course we had to get wholesalers for some things . |
| 27 | The previous night I had got carried away , talking at length to the press and television when I should have been back in our quarters calming down , relaxing and getting some sleep . |
| 28 | ‘ You thought I should write — after what you said ! ’ she exclaimed , while her heartbeats dully settled , for clearly he was more concerned with where the devil she had got to than with her in particular . |
| 29 | She heard the quiet click of the door and when she raised her head she had got what she wanted — she was alone . |
| 30 | Somewhere in the hassle he had got what he really wanted : to go along himself . |