Example sentences of "i [adv] got a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I eventually got a chance to read the South Wales Aggregates Working Party 's Regional Commentary which has been sitting on my desk for months .
2 His ring record alone demanded the attention of the BBBC and he believed that : ‘ It was through public opinion that I eventually got a title .
3 so , you know , I looked under the bonnet , I could n't understand it at all tt , er , so I eventually got a lift and got a ride down into Malham and er , went in the telephone box there
4 If I only got a second , I would stay in Oxford .
5 I only got a load of balls .
6 I only got a glimpse of them .
7 I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it .
8 I just got a bit tipsy , that 's all , and had to sleep in a spare bedroom at the house . ’
9 I just got a bit erm mixed up in it .
10 I just got a message from .
11 No I just got a teaching thing , but it 's you know
12 ‘ I … ah … called you up here , Andy , because I just got a request from London that you go visit with them .
13 And also I used to notice that there were quite a lot of em empty window , you know , in the flats , and erm you know I just got a feeling that this was really where I I found that I would be able to work , or that I wanted to work .
14 But when I learned to play guitar I just got a book of chords and learned them and just sort of thrashed around .
15 My parents and I generally got a lift home in a cart , leaving some of the other guests still in deep discussion and the small children asleep on their mothers ' laps .
16 But I would if I ever got a job and I was working and I had to make a casserole or something .
17 Son taught it to me , in case I ever got a Hungarian .
18 I still got a bit of coffee left after I finish eating the doughnut , so I sip it slow to make it last , and look round the caff .
19 I hardly got a look at it
20 I also got a letter from Mr C.N.D. Cole , the editor of the Western Mail .
21 Yeah , but I also got a leaflet for refills as well
22 Sorry I nearly got a ticket as well .
23 So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off .
24 I immediately got a lot of media attention — Radio One could n't have made me fail . ’
25 I even got a reprimand from my creep of a Minister .
26 I even got a job cleaning for £26 a fortnight and he spent that too , that used to make me feel dead small .
27 I even got a job for one of my half-sisters at a place in Lunedale , but she did n't settle to the job like me and wanted to go home after a short while .
28 I then got a phone call in the middle of the night — I always get phone calls in the middle of the night from David .
29 It paid off — ‘ I actually got a job , then another , and within two years I was working every day . ’
30 ‘ I felt I never got a chance there , but I have been given the chance at Norwich and I 'm very pleased with how well it has gone . ’
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