Example sentences of "get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All got strange names have n't they ? |
| 2 | When he first got made redundant he got earnings-related dole , about £7 for himself , but I never had money of my own . |
| 3 | He also got strong support from Vietnam veterans , who Bush said would turn against Clinton because of his anti-war activities . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |
| 5 | We got each other ’ . |
| 6 | Pepe 's Bar was situated on the sand , with rough wooden flooring that Shelley used to think could n't take much more of the stamping that it got each Saturday during the flamenco dancing . |
| 7 | The might before in the hotel lounge , with his wife , Lonnie , beside him , bemusedly aghast , he grilled a pleasant waitress until he knew how many tips she got each week , how many children she had , the frequency of men hitting on her and the general contour of her reality . |
| 8 | We got broad beans up |
| 9 | They got eight copies of them video shop |
| 10 | ‘ She got eight O levels and three A's , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 11 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 12 | When he first raised the idea with Mikhail Gorbachev and Edward Shevardnadze in 1987 , he got little response . |
| 13 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 14 | The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights . |
| 15 | The studio got little cash to pay for new films . |
| 16 | But I got 75 cents off a New Old Fashioned Patty Melt … |
| 17 | Just in case we got conflicting stories . ’ |
| 18 | He got fifty pounds for writing that in as well . |
| 19 | So what have we done , we 've put the money into ten lots of five pound now okay so we got fifty pounds let's say we had it in five pound notes . |
| 20 | And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know . |
| 21 | I answered every thing and I seem , I think I got quite a few right , I mean I do , I , if I got fifty percent on that I 'd be very pleased . |
| 22 | I got fifty Valentine cards last year . |
| 23 | Charles watched from the wings with mounting excitement as sketches and songs got rapturous receptions . |
| 24 | You got eleven grandchildren . |
| 25 | As pumps improved , Crookes got lower pressures than Faraday had been able to do ; and eventually he discovered cathode rays , which he interpreted as this fourth state . |
| 26 | Instead of black eyes , we got polite compliance . |
| 27 | We got roast beef we got the most important |
| 28 | Yeah I got dry skin . |
| 29 | Brutus is though apprehensive that Caesar could change his personality when he got total power . |
| 30 | A new girl asks , ‘ You still got that man in there ? ’ |