Example sentences of "and get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , I first started feeling I was overweight when I fourteen and I was , I was twelve stone and I went to the doctor and got black capsules to take which had me as high as a kite for a long time ! |
| 2 | 10,000 Maniacs toured the UK extensively last year and got great responses . |
| 3 | 10,000 Maniacs toured the UK extensively last year and got great responses . |
| 4 | The notion took hold in Vicente at an early age and got serious reinforcement when he arrived in America from his native Spain ( by way of Paris ) and began to form lasting relationships with many other , then unknown , artists of the New York avant-garde . |
| 5 | I came to the school some time ago to investigate the giant eel and got lost . |
| 6 | ‘ He might have just taken a walk and got lost , ’ said Pascoe without conviction . |
| 7 | ‘ I went for a walk in the woods and got lost . |
| 8 | But within a minute that Renault could have turned off the main road and got lost in the maze of lanes to the west of Sandwich Flats . |
| 9 | She had got stuck getting out of Belfast , and got lost trying to take a short cut round the traffic jam . |
| 10 | At other times in vacations he spent weeks doing hard reading in the library of Cambridge University and got good talks with Hoskyns . |
| 11 | However we stopped and got good directions . |
| 12 | I mean he tried the Forest defence out on the left-hand side t to start with switched the player and got young Lewis in and really Forest could have done with a better ball er sorry Leicester could have done with a better final ball from Lewis . |
| 13 | I went into a YWCA and got pregnant and frightened . ’ |
| 14 | Then I stayed with him and got pregnant . |
| 15 | ‘ If you was anyone else , I 'd say , get divorced , but you did that once and then you went and got married again . |
| 16 | The night it was announced in Variety that Hoffman had the role , Nicholson swore violently and went out and got drunk . |
| 17 | And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off . |
| 18 | Having spent so much of his money , Paul allowed himself to spend more ; having invited Edwin Chase to come with him , they went to a tavern and got drunk . |
| 19 | After the near-fatal accident to the young Celia Carrow , Freddie Nash went back to London , managed to persuade the girl at the local off-licence to let him have some bottles on account , and got drunk . |
| 20 | At Brest , Gustave fell in with the sly Picard and his freak once again , dined and got drunk with him , and further praised the magnificence of his animal . |
| 21 | In the end I stayed in and got drunk . |
| 22 | They left London that same evening and got straight to work on arrival at Lusaka next morning . |
| 23 | It transpires that Ram got on a plane in Kansas City , looked out the window and got straight back off again . |
| 24 | ‘ But as soon as he he had real problems and got unhappy with Williams , he became seriously interested in Indy racing . |
| 25 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 26 | It got blown against a thatch-stone and got killed . |
| 27 | The ones who made the best records with the least effort , took the most drugs , gatecrashed the best parties and got involved with the strangest people . |
| 28 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 29 | About five weeks before that I had come home in my first university term , and got undressed for my bath in front of the bathroom mirror . |
| 30 | she went sort of , she just sort of spread and got lazy did n't |