Example sentences of "get [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think if you got maybe a twenty five year old who came to your school for a week and got you in a small group and talked about it , it would be great on a one to one basis . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm afraid this dog affair has got everyone in a nasty mood , ’ Uncle Alfred explained . |
| 6 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 7 | Now you can see Body Shop 's here , I 've got them in a nice box now . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've got ourselves into a great position , even over our closest rivals in fourth and fifth spot , ’ says Gunn , who is in his seventh season with Norwich . |
| 9 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 10 | ‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry . |
| 11 | Surely by that time many of you must have realised that had got you into a right pickle over L M S and that you some of you I believe felt that but none of you spoke out about it . |
| 12 | Got one with a bigger bit gave . |
| 13 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 14 | ‘ Though I 'm surprised you have n't got something on a grander scale . ’ |
| 15 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 16 | and they 've also got it in a dark green which is really nice . |
| 17 | I think Lewisham have got themselves into a ludicrous state over people er . |
| 18 | MY DAUGHTER and her husband have got themselves into a ridiculous situation and , though I could happily bang their heads together , I feel I 've got to help them . |
| 19 | Now has anybody actually got themselves in a total mess ? |
| 20 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 21 | Get them for a last bargain . |
| 22 | ‘ Get me to a fucking hospital , ’ he said , frantically shaking the arm of the man who sat next to him . |
| 23 | You get someone with a sharp knife |
| 24 | if we can resolve it with cos then you 're getting summat on a different style of thinking to that , you know , I know Fred does n't wan na be involved but then you 've always got somebody , well we 'll have to go and see Fred first . |
| 25 | The next time your having a trim it might be worth taking a closer look at the stylist snipping the curls around your ears and the junior getting you in a right lather at the backwash . |
| 26 | What they could find room to laugh at , however , was the way in which respectable England could ignore the realities of slum life for so many years , while showering the Empire with the benefits of Christianity and imperial wars , and then get itself into a respectable lather in such a short time about a few broken heads among rough lads . |
| 27 | Get something with a good conductance , not something with a high resistance but something with a high conductance . |
| 28 | but every now and then we get something with a special offer on which we 're getting the Kelloggs cornflake bowls at the moment . |
| 29 | He turned abruptly away now , saying , ‘ Take my advice , Aggie , get her into a closed school . ’ |
| 30 | As I get her into a fresh pair of rubber knickers I feel something cold on my face . |