Example sentences of "[adv] got [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But then , encouraged by her parents , she slowly got to grips with her studies .
2 We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) .
3 He provided Gordon with excellent feedback from the track and by now he rarely got into trouble on the circuit .
4 WHYTE Crucial clearances but rarely got to grips with Hateley or McCoist 6
5 When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover .
6 After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m .
7 The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington .
8 The young German eventually got in front with seven laps remaining when Senna 's McLaren appeared to develop a technical problem , Schumacher squeezing past at the final hairpin .
9 When customers unsurprisingly got into trouble , it obligingly increased its advances .
10 ( Well , I only got to page 8 … ) .
11 Unfortunately we only got within 15km from the town .
12 We then all got into taxis and we went off to the Coconut Grove at the top half of Regent Street where we spent until the small hours of the morning .
13 I picked up my knife and attempted to copy the old lady but I soon got into difficulty .
14 The talks , repeatedly postponed since April 8 apparently because of failure to agree an agenda , soon got into difficulty , although it was reported on May 9 that the MNR had made a concession in allowing relief columns through to Mozambican refugees in Malawi .
15 By the time negotiations finally got under way at Fontainebleau , elections for the new Constituent Assembly in France had resulted in a victory for the Catholic MRP , with the Communists in second place , and heavy losses for the French Socialist party .
16 On lap forty-five , he finally got past Lauda ( who was having trouble with his gear linkage ) going up Druids and the crowd went wild .
17 But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all .
18 finally got to Monica and we thought that was enough , so we just wrote Monica , we thought they 'd accept that and they did n't .
19 I finally got in touch with the distributor and explained what was going on .
20 ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I just got into town and she said if ever I was here , I should look you up . ’
21 just got into Wales and we camped on that flat land and then we went up the riv , oh we 've got it on the
22 Erm still got for Sanyos .
23 ‘ But you still got off cocaine ?
24 However , we still got to school by 9.00am .
25 Lee Marvin 's song ‘ Wand'rin' Star ’ would be unacceptable to most bullfrogs but it still got to number one .
26 He greeted me politely and we quickly got into conversation .
27 It was in a little book I once got for Christmas called Ghosts and Other Weird Creatures .
28 However , as Celtic gradually got to grips in midfield the service to Kiwomya dried up .
29 The marketing men gradually got in charge and now their corporate thinking and fear can kill any project .
30 Nobody ever got through Sybil 's guard .
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