Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] had got " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | His palms were still red from the belting he had got for talking that afternoon . |
| 5 | After marriage he had got fatter , and less lively . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 8 | how to be ta er the wheels on that fire engine it had got the registration , had you noticed ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | I wondered at what point he had got religion . |
| 14 | It was part of the routine he had got used to . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | She heard the quiet click of the door and when she raised her head she had got what she wanted — she was alone . |
| 19 | Somewhere in the hassle he had got what he really wanted : to go along himself . |
| 20 | Harry had lost the high , blooming colour he had got from two hours of strenuous play with blunted swords , and was pale now with a bright , wary , aggressive pallor . |
| 21 | She was very tired : every day that week she had got up at five . |
| 22 | And er I well remember on one occasion in the course of my analysis with Anna Freud I had the uncanny feeling , well this was more than an uncanny feeling , I think it was the reality , I touched the superego of Sigmund Freud because at one point I said something in my analysis which implied that her father , for instance , might have some interest in religion and Anna Freud flared up and what I felt was flaring was her superego and this was the superego she had got by identification with her father . |
| 23 | In the early morning they had got drenched in the grass that waved up to his small son 's back , and when the sun struck the dew it was like the silent explosion of a crystal bowl . |
| 24 | There was a general recognition that throughout the cooperative movement and the trades union movement they had got to become more closely welded together to safeguard their common interests . |
| 25 | She would like to get her own back for that row she had got into last October . |
| 26 | Ace was busy remachining parts from several guns as Benny rushed in , waving the print-out she had got from the computer . |
| 27 | Halvard how are you doing , i thought you had got stuck at customs for wearing that zip ‘ G ’ string . |
| 28 | Debts had swallowed up most of the money he had got for Carinish Court . |
| 29 | Of course he had got to know him a good deal better at Ecalpemos … |
| 30 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |