Example sentences of "get engaged " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl , Jane Wilde . |
| 2 | Commenting on this recently , evangelist Eric Delve asked : ‘ Who ever heard of a six-week training course to teach girls who have got engaged how to tell their friends ? ’ |
| 3 | Royalty finally peters out in Ilbarritz , a resort that is barely distinguishable from Biarritz proper , where King Alfonso XIII of Spain apparently got engaged and where Queen Nathalie of Serbia , hardly the best-remembered of Europe 's lost monarchies , had a home . |
| 4 | During this period , also , Alistair had grimly got engaged to Hazel . |
| 5 | Keith and I had got engaged four months before and we said if I did get pregnant we would get married but we never did . |
| 6 | She 's just got engaged . |
| 7 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 8 | ‘ Silvia and Jeff have got engaged . ’ |
| 9 | So , he was in London on some business or other and had simply dropped by to tell her that Jeff and Silvia had got engaged . |
| 10 | ‘ If I 'd got engaged to anybody else , any of these young girls you cite , they 'd expect things from me I 'm not prepared to give — ’ |
| 11 | And so , he 's now er got engaged to this woman . |
| 12 | That 's the one who 's just got engaged to this guy who 's got the big |
| 13 | They get engaged . ’ |
| 14 | When a couple get engaged and married , you would hardly think that anything could come between them . |
| 15 | ‘ Her mum said why didn ’ we get engaged Easter so we said yeah . ’ |
| 16 | She leaves him , returns , and while their relationship is never quite the same again , they get engaged . |
| 17 | If Madeleine does decide to marry him — or get engaged to him — then you 'll know where you stand . |
| 18 | ‘ Well — get engaged first , then get married . |
| 19 | If you do n't actually pick up the handset and either get engaged , meaning that the other party 's engaged , you wo n't find out . |
| 20 | But the big success of the evening was Freda 's — she ended up by getting engaged to a Flying Officer navigator whom she had never set eyes on until that night . |
| 21 | ‘ Getting engaged , Easter , ’ Tim said , lighting up and drawing deeply . |
| 22 | We 're getting engaged . ’ |
| 23 | Do n't tell Madeleine I said so because she 'll deny it just to be contrary , but I 'm very much hoping the two of them will soon be getting engaged . |
| 24 | And talking of news , Alice , you might be interested to hear that Madeleine may be getting engaged to an army officer called Lionel Dunbar . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 26 | I ca n't help getting engaged on the human scale , minimal though this is , fight it though I do . |
| 27 | He overruled my objections about getting engaged so soon after meeting ; soothed my worries about parting from my family — we could save up , go and visit them . |
| 28 | We 're getting engaged as soon as I get back to England . ’ |
| 29 | No , he had n't actually said anything about getting engaged yet . |
| 30 | Until he had suggested getting engaged she 'd assumed one of the ‘ friends ’ was in fact a girlfriend . |