Example sentences of "we [vb past] got a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 2 | you know , how that change has taken place and I as I say we we were we were compared to some we were well off , we 'd got a tap in the house.So many people had n't even got a tap they were in the yard , and that tap was shared by a dozen families . |
| 3 | Course , he wanted to know if we 'd got a video we could lend him . |
| 4 | We 'd got a temp by now who eyed Malcolm through a haze of blue eyeshadow and tapped on the typewriter with fingernails like goose quills . |
| 5 | ‘ He did once say to me that we did n't know what we 'd got a hold of . |
| 6 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 7 | And we I tell you we 'd got a couple of hundred in ours . |
| 8 | I wish we 'd got a bit further really but it 's hard work . |
| 9 | She knew we 'd got a clue , even if she did n't know what it was . |
| 10 | You know , because we 'd got a piano , he 'd got a drum set for Christmas . |
| 11 | Oh er , we 'd got a cellar and it was a real good'un , you could er leave it down there , salt , salted you see . |
| 12 | I mean it could have been done if we 'd got a go-ahead . |
| 13 | Well , we 'd got a library picture of him , so we put it in . ’ |
| 14 | We discovered that we 'd got a lot of unnecessary parts — things that were over-indulgent — so we chucked 'em out . ’ |
| 15 | I was afraid it might come out that we 'd got a cut as well . |
| 16 | Hopscotch , when we 'd got a pavement , we 'd more fields than er pavements . |
| 17 | just when we got back off holiday we 'd got a letter from |
| 18 | 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 ? |