Example sentences of "got [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got rather a lot of beans . |
| 2 | While he was doing a little more manipulation of the bones before the plaster set , she got ready an injection of antibiotic and he took it from her with a nod of approval . |
| 3 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 4 | Well , we sort of got together a couple of times — he was an interesting sort of man — done a lot of sailing , single-handed stuff . |
| 5 | Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government . |
| 6 | Between Silver and myself , we got together a crew of the toughest seamen you can imagine . |
| 7 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 8 | Shortly after his arrival he got together a conference of Anglo-Burmans , who agreed that when they returned to Burma they would ally themselves more closely with the people of the country rather than as exclusively with the British side of their heritage as they had tended to do in pre-war days . |
| 9 | Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid . |
| 10 | A research scientist called Mulk got together a group of followers and created two robots , assassination machines designed to put an end to Bangler 's reign of terror , once and for all … |
| 11 | So Ralph got together a group of dealers people like Sidney Janis , Alexandre Rosenberg , Klaus Perls , Pierre Matisse . |
| 12 | We got together a group of important dealers and they all came over and testified , and the gallery owner said the artist was lying , but in the end the show was closed and the gallery closed . |
| 13 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 14 | it it got away a bit you know and and |
| 15 | Police who put her on a train said she got home a day after her husband … and ‘ in a foul mood . ’ |
| 16 | Well you got nearly a mile to walk when he gets to the station . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's OK , Maggie , I got here a bit late as well , but they were waiting , you did n't run away did you , loves ? |
| 18 | Erm I suppose got here a bit later you would have had more time to sort this lot out . |
| 19 | ‘ You got here a week ago , you 'd 've cooked . ’ |
| 20 | We got there a quarter of an hour early , around nine in the morning . |
| 21 | When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit . |
| 22 | I even made sure we got there an hour early in order to take everything in . |
| 23 | oh well , we ca n't very well be whether Julie said she liked boys to go out with her , go , and we provisionally booked , I think it was the last week in February , we got quite a bit on , I said er if I ca n't make it I 'll ring you , but then , oh that was it she rung me up , and she said Lynnie |
| 24 | Roy Inman , manager of the British women 's team , said : ‘ I think Pierantozzi got quite a shock at the worlds in Barcelona last summer , and she wants to try and get the measure of Kate before they meet at the Olympics . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I got quite a shock . ’ |
| 26 | She also got quite a shock when she saw his face as he turned to look at her on film . |
| 27 | Erm , once she walked into W H Smith 's and saw her father , the only difference was that he was on the front page of a magazine so she got quite a shock because she did n't expect to see him . |
| 28 | So Louise got quite a shock when , flicking through the local paper she saw that ANOTHER girl had been crowned carnival queen . |
| 29 | Oh , you got quite a variety of foods . |
| 30 | And when when he gets to know us a bit better we got quite a welcome tonight . |