Example sentences of "get into [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Funnily enough though there are there are feminist women who are who are saying similar things that saying that it is a bit irresponsible to have gotten into bed with someone and taken all your clothes off and then say no .
2 As you know , I am now in debt to the extent of about 700 gulden and have n't the faintest idea how I am going to support myself , Mamma and your sister on my monthly salary … this is the first time I have got into debt .
3 Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like …
4 ‘ Well , there was one chap there was a reading type o' chap — got into Parliament later , the ambitious type , you know — and he 'd say : ‘ What did you say this or this for , Walter , in The Factory Whistle ?
5 Maggie knew that many of her school-friends admired Phoebe ; they thought she was rather splendid , especially since they had all got into ecology , but this did not help Maggie .
6 ‘ I could easily have got into university .
7 BSB itself went into partnership with the BBC to negotiate jointly with the Football Association for exclusive rights to England football and FA Cup matches , and Sky first got into bed with BBC to win exclusive British rights to the Mike Tyson-Frank Bruno world heavyweight title fight .
8 The rain was still battering down she noted , and from the sound of it even heavier than when she 'd got into bed .
9 Satisfied with his precautions , he had a wash in the luxurious bathroom , cleaned his teeth , undressed and got into bed .
10 Censor-taunting MADONNA has got into bed with the censor besieged Time-Warner .
11 The film included a suggestive ten-minute episode , set in an eighteenth-century brothel , in which a male customer chose a female prostitute , helped her undress in a bedroom and finally got into bed with her , and a frankly explicit ten-minute episode of a newly wed bride and groom set in a hotel bedroom .
12 After a while she forced herself to stop wandering around the room and instead got into bed .
13 When they had got into bed , it was Toby 's custom to read them a chapter or two of a book — the school had a tattered library of elderly boys ' books , most of them left behind by ex-pupils .
14 Then , feeling foolish , blushing in the empty room like a self-conscious adolescent , she put on her nightdress got into bed and switched out the light .
15 She went back to her room and , leaving a small bedside lamp on , she switched off the main light and got into bed .
16 He was born in Southgate , London , has a degree in politics from Warwick University and got into broadcasting through a trainee scheme at Radio Sussex .
17 Maybe the aliens had got into shopping .
18 They must have been less pleased when a slightly sensational story got into Weekend under my own name .
19 The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study …
20 They were concerned that the object might have been a hang glider who 'd got into difficulty .
21 A hundred horses had already taken the fence — only one had got into difficulty
22 Mother 's success was due in some part to her brother , my uncle , Charles Chipchase , who went to London in the 1920s and got into conversation with a newspaper reporter .
23 They had got into conversation one evening when Ianthe was coming back from the library where she worked , and it had reassured her — coming as a stranger to this rather doubtful neighbourhood — to meet somebody whom her mother would have described as a ‘ gentlewoman ’ .
24 Owen started taking Jane and Zeinab across to join them but on the way they ran into a group of journalists whom Zeinab knew and got into conversation with them .
25 ‘ If you had not lost him at cards , would he have got into prison ?
26 You 've actually got into number counting .
27 No , says Dusan Trancik , the Slovakian maker of seven features who has frequently got into trouble with the authorities .
28 He was regarded as a ‘ big-head ’ , he played truant , got into trouble for telling a lie , and was lectured by the headmaster in front of the whole school because of the complaints there had been about him .
29 A week or two before they had got into trouble when Norman Tebbit had come to Cambridge and in the words of one of the policemen they had not ‘ shown him ’ to the demonstrators .
30 When Mrs Jones says : ‘ My Johnny is really a good boy but got to running around with the wrong bunch and got into trouble ’ , she is making a set of assumptions which , when spelled out more explicitly , constitute the foundations of an important school of thought in the scientific study of juvenile delinquency .
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