Example sentences of "got [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a trans-Pyrenean kingdom , Navarre lasted from its foundation in the ninth century until the sixteenth century , when it got broken in two , Spanish Navarre becoming Spanish in 1512 while French or Basse-Navarre was incorporated into the French crown in 1589 , when its current king became king of France as Henri IV . |
| 2 | Hence Doctor Who 's second series got shortened to thirty-nine weeks , ending with ‘ The Time Meddler ’ instead . |
| 3 | and light got bruised by 4 o'clock . |
| 4 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 5 | Kevin said : ‘ The front wheels ran over him and he got caught by one leg . |
| 6 | see I fed the dog Dawn , I get a and er I fell , well , he got fed about five o'clock tonight you know . |
| 7 | erm , and they did remarkably well , you know , taking it over , they were really very acceptable at the end , but the whole programme had this sub-plot of how antagonistic most of the prison officers were , not all of them , cos they obviously has some support to keep it going , but a lot of them were antagonistic towards what was going on , and not only that but just the the prison system , you know , this chap got transferred from one prison to another , when he was mid-way through rehearsals , you know , I mean why should n't he have stayed there , |
| 8 | Nobody really minded — Mum exchanged 2 recipes and my silly wee sister got invited to 3 parties . |
| 9 | and then er Vauxhall we got invited round fifty of us went round Vauxhall |
| 10 | Do you remember when you got rid of one of your armchairs last year or the year before , they bought two new fireside chairs and one of the armchairs nearly had it |
| 11 | cos I wanted to go to bed and er , by the time we got rid of one lot of people another lot all came through though |
| 12 | When we get to the jobs erm side of it the jobs I I I 'm accused outside this afternoon of of putting in jeopardy one thousand something jobs erm , this authority got rid of seven hundred jobs , education jobs er only a few months ago and there 's many more , something on the region of two thousand jobs will be lost in this authority without a protest . |
| 13 | Well when you 're elected as a councillor , you 've got provision for three years , that 's right , I got re-elected after three years , after three months there they changed their minds and decided to put er , a labour council in , so I mean . |
| 14 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 15 | The design used got started in 1988 and took five years to get a full multi-processor in such a small package . |
| 16 | We pulled into Coventry police station and instead of going to a cafe , as we had hoped , we got shut in one cell and left there for about two hours with the most revolting sandwiches you 've ever seen in your life . |
| 17 | Anyone on the list who was at the infamous away games at Stoke where we got battered in 2 successive seasons ? |
| 18 | Each day , in my duties , I got ferried from one side to the other . |
| 19 | ‘ … got married at sixty-eight years old . |
| 20 | Banks ended up in Florida and got married at 19 . |