Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only it was only that erm you know erm when you said the sixty pen pence it was the one that was the only one that I seemed to get stuck on . |
| 2 | I mean , if I 'd got pregnant he might have thought it was his , that he 'd got better somehow . |
| 3 | I wondered if anybody dew I 'd got pregnant before I was married . |
| 4 | I 'd dithered , and I 'd got tired and I 'd gone off and been |
| 5 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 6 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 7 | So I fell for it and I volunteered for the Guards , but after a week , they decided I , I 'd got flat feet which was n't very good for slamming your foot down as the guards demanded in those days . |
| 8 | The job paid quite well and I could perhaps at that stage have afforded somewhere slightly better to live , but I 'd got used to my new home and I was still keen to try and build up some savings again . |
| 9 | That was how I 'd got used to it , at any rate , ’ |
| 10 | After I 'd got used to the idea I helped to count the sticks and tie them up in bundles . |
| 11 | ‘ Pity , I 'd got used to my daily visits here to see you lovely ladies . |
| 12 | Stones Lane , I 'd got used to Manners Lane , they call it something quite |
| 13 | ‘ If I 'd got engaged to anybody else , any of these young girls you cite , they 'd expect things from me I 'm not prepared to give — ’ |
| 14 | First of all Mum thought I was anorexic and then she thought I 'd got thyroid trouble . |
| 15 | I 'd got soaked going to the market . ’ |
| 16 | So er I said er , I 'd got aerial and I 'd radio cassette |
| 17 | I began to get nervous when these new fluorescent vehicles started being referred to as ‘ mountain' bikes . |
| 18 | Er we were married three years , no children and I began to get desperate again and an anyway along came the first then came the second . |
| 19 | I began to get desperate , I saw the tunnel was no good . |
| 20 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 21 | You only , I , after a little while I began to get bored . |
| 22 | I began to get anxious . |
| 23 | After a week at home I began to get restless , as always in the company of my parents . |
| 24 | I began to get cold feet , but these other two guys were totally positive and they were absolutely right . |
| 25 | I began to get worried again . |
| 26 | Then I began to get frightened . |
| 27 | And that 's when I began to get suspicious . |
| 28 | I know it 's something a Samaritan would consider unprofessional , but I enjoyed getting verbal queerbashers to hang up on me because they could n't handle what I was telling them . |
| 29 | I adored getting drunk and I adored reading in the papers what I had done the night before . |
| 30 | That 's one of the reasons why I decided to get involved in the project in the first place when it was first broached to me . |