Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] got a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I got there and by good luck I got a very good er site agent and after asking me what I 'd done , he says it 's alright son we 'll build you up . |
| 2 | ‘ Just tell your faculty adviser you got a research grant from the DEA , and you 'll be spending the term at the American Embassy in Nicosia . ’ |
| 3 | In the harbour you got a secondary ebb and flow between the main tides . |
| 4 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
| 5 | Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward . |
| 6 | in this case in this case you got a chloride if you 'd used sodium you would have got sodium chloride which is ? |
| 7 | got an advantage she got a fax at home |
| 8 | That black mark is erm a scar patch , if you got a scar during the war you got a wound in a scuffle erm you won in the war , you did sort of emphasise this in that way . |
| 9 | Anna became very active and efficient running charities and committees ; Constanza took a shift at a canteen , and after Italy was in the war she got a job in a ministry , real work , and she did it ; for what it was worth . |
| 10 | When we plotted strength against thickness for any given whisker we got a curve which was uncannily like Griffith 's size-strength curve for glass fibres ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 11 | Thanks to Cook 's intervention he got a job on Liberty magazine , and Wilcock began working on its ‘ Screwball ’ column . |
| 12 | On May Day I got a shock that was half pleasant , half sad : Joe had printed , over our pseudonym , one of the last poems Dana and I had composed , ‘ Winter 's End ’ : |
| 13 | And then one day I got a letter from Miss Wooler 's school . |
| 14 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
| 15 | Latish that night I got a box of matches and my torch and went across the back field and set fire to this Dutch barn . |
| 16 | About ten or eleven at night I got a call from the US embassy … |
| 17 | Then that very night I got a phone call from this woman . |
| 18 | Well I 've got a red I got a red book out of Smiths and I had , one of my clients was a printer so I got him to put it in in the gold |
| 19 | Lord Mount Charles tells me : ‘ For a first-timer I got a good result . |
| 20 | Turn it off a minute I got a joke . |
| 21 | Floppy head you got a . |
| 22 | You can do without that hassle and at least if you 've a good relationship you got a good . |
| 23 | Yeah erm wait a minute we got a letter from this morning to say that erm wait a minute , erm they 'd had a communication from Mr |
| 24 | The next day we got a ride back to Bahriyah in the back of a pick-up truck . |
| 25 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
| 26 | Last week I got a letter . |
| 27 | Last week I got a real corker … |
| 28 | The other week I got a |
| 29 | So long as you got the question wrong you got a cabbage if you got it right you got a prize |
| 30 | When Jean 's turn came for her third , she fully expected it to be as straightforward as Billy and Berta , but in the last week she got a lot of bleeding . |