Example sentences of "get [pron] into [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 2 | So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 8 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I think Lewisham have got themselves into a ludicrous state over people er . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Just get everyone into the old sheds . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He turned abruptly away now , saying , ‘ Take my advice , Aggie , get her into a closed school . ’ |
| 16 | As I get her into a fresh pair of rubber knickers I feel something cold on my face . |
| 17 | Right form the start they get the club into the wrong position , meaning they have no hope of getting it into a good position afterwards . |
| 18 | Right , right , would you like to sort of start getting yourselves into the other room . |
| 19 | You were getting yourself into a whole load of trouble , Fran , and I needed to ensure that there would be someone around to look after you when I could n't be . |
| 20 | Her name was Gail Danski , a prim-looking chick , but not so prim when you got her into a dark corner , as he had once discovered when taking her home after a school dance . |
| 21 | Now I took him into my home , it was an extremely costly thing to do , and eventually we got him into the Chiltern Clinic . |
| 22 | Typical of microscopic work might be W. C. Williamson 's work on the formation of bones and teeth in the 1850s , which got him into the Royal Society . |
| 23 | In the circumstances , he made a fair pass at the ball and got it into a reasonable spot about fifteen yards short of the edge of the green and about thirty yards from the hole . |
| 24 | Are we gon na be able to get them into the right place ? |
| 25 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 26 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 27 | We 're in the Division there with them and we 've we 've got to try and win enough of them to get ourselves into a charging position . |
| 28 | He has the ability to get you into the right frame of mind , to get you mentally prepared . |
| 29 | Of course , not all strategic options are of that type , but , where they are , this approach may at least get one into the right position for estimating the cash benefits to compare with the investment outlay . |
| 30 | Now if you understand that , if you 're actually targeting , you want to get something into a national paper or local paper or something , you need to think at about your particular item you want to get across and think ‘ What sort of angle could actually be useful for that particular outlet ? ’ |