Example sentences of "[subord] it got [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw no risk at all in our artistic adventure , although it got dark much quicker than I 'd expected . |
| 2 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 3 | went up there first and then so it got better and so it got better and , and Will was marvellous |
| 4 | went up there first and then so it got better and so it got better and , and Will was marvellous |
| 5 | But we could n't go ashore until it got better ad then we went round the cape after and down into Aberdeen see . |
| 6 | It 's grown on a , a north facing wall so bit , bit more now I think if it got more sun . |
| 7 | Unless it got personal , I 'd turn it off , I mean I mean when we went the estate agents and solicitors |
| 8 | ‘ Unless it got snagged , certainly . ’ |
| 9 | I did n't get up all day till it got dark and Mr Jackson came . |
| 10 | Mick Jones is in good form for the duration , messing with his old buddies Strummer and Simonon in ‘ Medicine Show ’ , grooving a bit with Neneh Cherry and storming Trafalgar Square ( ‘ The Bottom Line ’ ) before it got trendy . |
| 11 | I decided to leave before it got dark , first thanking the Padre and his two Breton friends for their very kind hospitality . |
| 12 | Her mother had told her to bring back at least one load before it got dark , and it would be much more fun if I went with her . |
| 13 | which , so that you got the stables shut up before it got dark at four o'clock , ai n't it |
| 14 | before it got dark . |
| 15 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 16 | While these looked good in the marina , we found that these were n't big enough to maintain a firm grip while at relatively acute angles of heel , particularly when it got bumpy . |
| 17 | He had few clothes — a ‘ good suit ’ of dark-blue lightweight dacron that was the badge of every American in those days , a couple of shirts , a long , shapeless tweed overcoat of German origin he wore when it got colder . |
| 18 | He 'd play a couple of quiet rounds and then when it got hectic and everyone else wanted to be playing , he 'd stay away from the course and just hit a few balls in practice . |
| 19 | They did it last spring when it was warm , when it got warm too early |
| 20 | But when it got dark , I had to go to bed because I had no light . |
| 21 | When it got dark I drove over and parked around the corner . |
| 22 | The ceilidh was held in the stable yard of the castle but as there was no lighting , festivities had to cease when it got dark ; great to live by nature 's principles like this , but a shame to stop when it was going so well ! |
| 23 | I said oh just when it got dark really I said we 're having it down the house , I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass |
| 24 | The girl , Jamie Auld , and 13 other children , aged between 10 and 13 , built a den in 60 tons of hay in the barn and lit a candle as it got dark . |
| 25 | As it got dark in the evening she became scared . |
| 26 | He had been waiting there since hearing from Bartocci , less than an hour earlier , that the kidnappers had been in touch and that the car would be leaving as soon as it got dark . |
| 27 | The US got the ‘ best ’ of the Cubans and Iranians , as it got many from 1848 ( Pinkerton , the organiser of anti-union factory guards was originally a British Chartist ) , and is now taking the cream of former communist states . |