Example sentences of "[vb past] get very " in BNC.

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1 But before I 'd got very far with my story he shrugged his shoulders and said he did n't believe me .
2 So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was .
3 ‘ He began getting very rebellious and started hanging around with the wrong crowd , says Steven .
4 ‘ I felt that I began to get very complacent in my guitar playing and that 's why we asked Craig to leave .
5 Stone began to get very edgy , his hand shaking as he held his whisky glass .
6 I began to get very worried .
7 Fists were thrown and for a while things began to get very ugly .
8 He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up .
9 However , once I was home , he started to get very ‘ twitchy ’ .
10 I started to get very worried about money indeed .
11 Then it all started to get VERY scrappy … the flicks kept coming but there was nobody running one to them .
12 He said got very nasty when they scored two goals within two minutes around
13 Even those who support the view of a gradual assimilation of legacy and trust in the classical period in order to account for examples of loose language have some difficulty here : for nobody really wants to suppose that this process had got very far in Celsus ' day .
14 Aunt Lilian had got very thin : her skin seemed to hang on her , like a shapeless dress .
15 ‘ She said he kept promising to marry her , but by mid-May she had got very frustrated that the relationship was n't accelerating as quickly as she wanted , said Antonia 's friend .
16 But she had got very drunk .
17 It was only a little after that , and before the damming had got very much further , that Ligulf said , ‘ Siward ? ’
18 Last night we said goodbye reluctantly to all the participants on the course at Sian , to whom we had got very attached considering our short stay here .
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