Example sentences of "got [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 2 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 4 | It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’ |
| 5 | Bradshaw himself got picked off by a thirty-footer and lost his board . |
| 6 | Well in them days you could , if you got fed up with a job you could just go and move on to another |
| 7 | The trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush but , just before Gazzer reached him , the dog yanked it free and raced away through the dunes , to the thin strip of beach left uncovered by the tide . |
| 8 | What if that got tangled up in an aeroplane passing ? |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , winter , The funeral car got bogged down in a snow drift . |
| 10 | Attempting to make a detour , the car got bogged down in a salt lake and was abandoned . |
| 11 | We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ Yanto began hastily , ‘ I was told he got pinned down for a week in no-man 's land during the battle of the Somme in 1916 . |
| 13 | that people were leaving the country. , my friend wrote to my niece in One House and asked her if I could live with her until I got fixed up in a home . |
| 14 | Those got taken up with a lot of promotional work , and in my case I found that charities got in touch with me a lot to open fetes , attend jumble sales , etc . |
| 15 | ‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’ |
| 16 | Lads who spent the working day in jeans got dressed up in a suit to go out for the night . |
| 17 | He asked her to sign his wretched petition on Friday after he asked me , and got sent away with a flea in his ear . |