Example sentences of "get [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We got ourselves into one of those silly situations , in the middle of 1883 , which meant there was no way for me to remain . |
| 2 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 3 | ‘ Then we got ourselves into a winning position only for carelessness to force us to go back to their place for a replay . ’ |
| 4 | Ye 'll get divil an' all help from me , gettin' yerself into trouble . |
| 5 | The photographic section on the camp was not very busy , having no aerial photos of enemy territory to decipher any more , and one of the photographic LACs got himself onto a good thing by setting himself up taking portraits , mostly of Waafs but a few airmen too . |
| 6 | Occasionally , there are other setbacks , though none as spectacular as the mess he got himself into during 1989 . |
| 7 | He came to A Division and got himself into a lot of trouble through damn stupidity . |
| 8 | Niki got himself into a series of accidents , some from ill judgement , some from overanxiety , some from inexperience . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , he got himself into a number of violent scrapes in Hollywood . |
| 10 | Bertrand Russell 's were n't and a nice pickle he got himself into , though I 'd put it all down to that secretary if I were asked . |
| 11 | By the time he was three years old , he had the scabbiest knees in the nursery from all the scrapes he got himself into . |
| 12 | But Marcus got himself into trouble , silly boy . |
| 13 | Boo Radley got himself into trouble and although the punishment inflicted on him was in no way severe or a major disgrace , his father decided that it would embarrass the family to have his son be sent away to the school that the punishment intended . |
| 14 | ' I understand that Daniele Miletti got himself into some trouble with your section some time ago . ’ |
| 15 | Dining in one restaurant with Hugh Paddick , he got himself into a furious row with a woman doctor at the next table , challenging her views on life . |
| 16 | Whatever Albie got himself into seems to have caught the attention of a lot of people . |
| 17 | Because it seems that Albie got himself into trouble two times over — once for the money , once for something else . |
| 18 | The Cotswolds MP was known as a political firebrand , and often got himself into trouble by speaking his mind . |
| 19 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 20 | I agreed and I put him under training for Mosquito , and to the best of my knowledge ( and this is only a guess ) he did over 70 sorties , got himself at least one DFC , if not two , and became a very worthwhile member of the Pathfinder Force . |
| 21 | Mr Clinton , who got himself in plenty of trouble during the campaign for not inhaling marijuana , is unlikely to go that far . |
| 22 | Before rehearsals started , he got himself in trim by running every day , knowing that he would have to be ultra-fit for each night 's three-hour performance , appearing on stage for almost every minute of it . |
| 23 | I could almost feel sorry for her , she had gotten herself into such a false position . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's another fine mess I 've gotten myself into . |
| 25 | The former '80s high flier is already well on the way to digging itself out of the mess it got itself into a few years back . |
| 26 | In one case that I know of , a subsidiary of a major UK company got itself into difficulty through totally misunderstanding its product costs as engineering costs , written off as a lump-sum period cost , increased with the production of more advanced products . |
| 27 | In the early years of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial expansion the Church militant got itself into some considerable moral tangles , but these did not prove insuperable . |
| 28 | Your Company — my Service too — got itself into video and pin lenses and ultra-viola light all wires and electricity . |
| 29 | Then in 1987 Midland Bank got itself in such a mess that it was on the receiving end of a laughable offer from the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising empire . |
| 30 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |