Example sentences of "and he [verb] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maidstone was used to all this and he had got the procedures worked out so well that very little mess was involved . |
| 2 | He had wanted a male grandchild and he had got a male grandchild ; that should be enough for everybody … [ 18 ] The good news therefore was doubly welcome and caused as much delight at Elmhurst as dismay in Woburn Square , where the John Pontifexes were then living . |
| 3 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody … |
| 4 | The egotism of the patriarch in search of an heir is intensified ; and the repetitive , parallelistic form of the new clause ( " … might feel or might not feel … ) matches the parallelism in the following clause ( " he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson " ) in suggesting the grandfather 's own emphatic and headstrong style of speech . |
| 5 | He had tried all his usual lines , Paul , Garvin , others , the ones he always used when he wanted to get official policy reversed or amended , and he had got nowhere . |
| 6 | This Ethiopian , he had come to Jerusalem , he was a , he was a a , go , a Godly man , he was seeking after the things of God , and he had come to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to worship God , and he was returning home , and he had got hold of the scroll that had Isaiah fifty three in it , and he was reading it , and Philip goes up to the man in the chariot , he said , do you understand what you 're reading ? |
| 7 | And he had got a pile of something put on the ground from the er , at your park . |
| 8 | But in the end when he went back she was asleep , and he did n't wake her because there were few enough hours before dawn , and he had to get through a day — a series of days — that would put to the test the most dangerous set of manoeuvres he had ever conducted . |
| 9 | But he was the first step on the path to those persons and he had to get this right ! |
| 10 | That was £45,000 over the odds , even for a brand-new model — and he had to get a secondhand one because back in 1989 the prestige-car market was still booming and the limited supply of Lamborghinis imported from Italy had already been snapped up . |
| 11 | Wycliffe was alone and he had to get out of the car to rouse a sleeping dog in the roadway . |
| 12 | By the time Owen arrived the crowd was sixty deep and he had to get his constables to clear a way through . |
| 13 | Third did he ? the first which was the Sunday and he had to get it ready because they were coming in on the Tuesday , on the third . |
| 14 | So , he 's rang every day since and he keeps getting this person , that says er er , we 'll pass your message , we 'll pass your message , we 'll get back to you , I 'll get back to you . |
| 15 | Looked very dangerous there , he got at his left full back , er the sad thing from Shrewsbury 's point of view is that he keeps getting down that right wing and he keeps getting crosses in . |
| 16 | And this man came to the door , and he went to get the hold belt , that should just have a tape recorder on conversation just throughout the week so it 's getting all sorts of rubbish going in there , |
| 17 | She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him . |
| 18 | Then abruptly I was looking at him , seeing him , because he 'd put my dreams back on top of the bag and he 'd got his head stuck down on his knees and his shoulders were shaking . |
| 19 | And he 'd got lots of famous mates that want to play on his records , and he picks up a Grammy and releases records on scrupulous labels , instead of the 30 or more indie horsefixers he 's had the misfortune to deal with over the years . |
| 20 | They just assumed that , being black , he had n't got any — and he 'd got a degree . |
| 21 | ‘ And he 'd got it , presumably , as a down-payment from Harley ? ’ |
| 22 | And there was a , two friends of theirs who were courting and he 'd got a pimple on the end of his nose . |
| 23 | And he 'd say , Well and he 'd got a whole string of Lenin 's books , and he 'd reach down and pick one and turn to the right page straight away , says , This is what Lenin said , and he said , I 'll stand by this , you know . |
| 24 | Steenie was putting the show on , and he 'd got a thing going with this bint Veronica . |
| 25 | But I know I could remember being taken round his school and in the main hall he 'd got a glass fronted cupboard , and he 'd got all sorts of well really and truly they were just pretty pebbles . |
| 26 | And he 'd got a boy who did stutter and he always used to go to granddad before er he when he came to school , before lessons and he 'd give him this pebble and he 'd say , now you can put it in your pocket . |
| 27 | Erm he , I think what he really must have had was er a sort of mild form of polio when he was young and he 'd got a shoulder , not completely paralysed but it was partially paralysed . |
| 28 | Telling me , one of the lads was telling me there was a guy he was a cook , and he 'd got sixteen hundred pounds from this . |
| 29 | And he were a taxi driver and he 'd got lost . |
| 30 | and he 'd remembered this spiel and he 'd got it word perfect and he 's reeling it off as his one objection |