Example sentences of "[adv] get [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Peggy Ashcroft duly got her gong for playing Lilian , 50 years in the bin , but She 's Been Away was considerably more than a kind of Rain Woman ; a vehicle for acting technique . |
2 | However , at Windsor the Georgians rarely got their act together . |
3 | Well , they eventually got their chance , during a rest day at the Monte Carlo Open . |
4 | The petitioners eventually got their wish ; enough Tories deserted the government to enable the Whigs to defeat the Commerce Bill of 1713 . |
5 | That was how I eventually got my bicycle . |
6 | ( Two years later , Connelly would dispute Jones 's recollection of these conversations , but by then the octopus had more or less got its act together . |
7 | Robbo quite rightly got his chance and it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to fight for my place or not . |
8 | Remember Liverpool only got their act together in the last couple of months and finished 6th . |
9 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |
10 | ‘ He only got his chance because we had a few players out with flu . |
11 | " Apparently some of the younger fellows in the Owsla have been giving him a thin time — teasing him about his fur , you know , and saying he only got his place because of the Threarah . |
12 | Stevie Ray obviously got his notion about the value of a vibrato with the arm protruding out from above the strings from watching Jimi Hendrix . |
13 | Anyway we 've only got her word for the whole story . |
14 | GUIL : You 've only got their word for it . |
15 | ‘ We 've still only got his word for it , ’ said Lewis , after Ashenden had gone . |
16 | The crafty old devil has not only got his bird eating out of his hand , he 's managed to dig some up-to-date data on the border build-up out of him . |
17 | ‘ We 've only got your adoption certificate . ’ |
18 | at the end of the day once your eyes are shut like that you 've only , you 've only got your imagination have n't you left ? |
19 | I 've only got my T-shirt and you 're not having that . |
20 | Oh I did n't bring it with me , I 've only got my record book . |
21 | ‘ Now you 've all got your wish . |
22 | Television not only gets its news stories in the same way as newspapers , it gets most of its feature stories from the very tabloids it is so fond of attacking . |
23 | And all the firms are claiming that they only get their hardwood from government erm replanting programmes . |
24 | They only get your skin clean ma . |
25 | She was only getting her paper was she ? |
26 | The range , entitled All Skins , embraces over shades of foundation and four formulas , so get your skin ‘ colourprinted ’ at the counter in department stores nationwide . |
27 | So get your husband to try some . |
28 | carry so get your husband to come round and get it . |
29 | So get your thinking caps on , get the sponsorship forms circulating and let's see some SNL names on the winners list for 1993 ! |
30 | In my view every survivor of that gallant band who kept the wartime lifelines open should not only get his medal by right , but a cash grant too , and he should be honoured by an invitation to take part in a special parade through the City of Liverpool during the commemoration in May . |