Example sentences of "get [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 2 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 4 | It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’ |
| 5 | Bradshaw himself got picked off by a thirty-footer and lost his board . |
| 6 | ‘ Imagine gettin' knocked down by a tram in the middle of Lime Street wearin' them things . |
| 7 | Well in them days you could , if you got fed up with a job you could just go and move on to another |
| 8 | The trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush but , just before Gazzer reached him , the dog yanked it free and raced away through the dunes , to the thin strip of beach left uncovered by the tide . |
| 9 | What if that got tangled up in an aeroplane passing ? |
| 10 | Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of . |
| 11 | It has been said by some writers that he had got caught up in an extravaganza far beyond both his intention and his control . |
| 12 | Must of got blocked up with a bit of muck . |
| 13 | but like I said nine times out of ten if I 've got pissed off with an album I change all of them . |
| 14 | Got held up on a bit of business . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , winter , The funeral car got bogged down in a snow drift . |
| 16 | Attempting to make a detour , the car got bogged down in a salt lake and was abandoned . |
| 17 | Well next time you 're in a taxi getting shaken about by a monster from Hell , do n't expect us to come to your rescue again . |
| 18 | After all it 's not every day you get caught up in a paradigm shift . |
| 19 | Imagine getting turned on by a biker ! |
| 20 | You are like the prisoner who is honourably circumspect but who gets turned in by an accomplice . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've just been through a decade where we watched surface responsibility get peeled away from a lot of people and institutions . ’ |
| 22 | If someone gets stung close to a bee 's nest , they are likely to find themselves quickly surrounded . |
| 23 | Well , when sedimentary material at a continental margin gets pulled down in a subduction zone at a plate , fusion could take place as the pressure increased . |
| 24 | He gets run over by a truck . |
| 25 | ‘ I just hope we can catch up with him before he gets knocked down by a car or finds his way off the roads into open countryside or woodland where it will be harder to find him . ’ |
| 26 | Indeed , getting kitted up like a beatnik represented a self-help endeavour , of which , if he could have made an imaginative leap , Samuel Smiles himself would have been proud . |
| 27 | Mum had a habit , whenever she sent me any distance on an errand , of insisting that I had clean bloomers on , ‘ in case yer get knocked down by a 'orse ’ , which was why I was scared of them . |
| 28 | Instead of walking to school as we always used to do in the olden days , even if it was a three mile journey , nearly every child of today gets taken there in a car . |
| 29 | As a foreigner she had great difficulty getting admitted there as an apprentice , but eventually succeeded with assistance from the Duke of Orleans . |
| 30 | ‘ If you remember the scene , a Voord is fighting with Ian when he gets thrown back against a wall . |