Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] into this " in BNC.

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1 You got me into this mess .
2 It was drink that got me into this mess .
3 You got me into this , lady .
4 It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess .
5 He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm
6 " I 'm sorry I got you into this .
7 It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’
8 ‘ When you bullied me into this … charade , ’ she spat the words out , ‘ it did n't give you the right to boss me about .
9 Corbett vaguely recalled the building as a pleasant two-storeyed affair : the fire must have caught the sun-dried timbers and turned it into this blackened mess .
10 The boy had not spoken since they thrust him into this sandstone cell under the ground and left him with his single candle and his narrow bed .
11 I called them into this room and spoke to them .
12 ‘ I talked you into this .
13 The Great War started and took the scho er This Road school had all men teachers extep except standard one , which was an introduction from infants to grown-up and a matronly lady always called Miss , er broke us into this new sort of discipline and sternness really .
14 ‘ It was your people who got him into this , ’ he persisted .
15 Lewis says his love for his mother Vi will keep him out of trouble , declaring : ‘ She brought me into this world and I consider myself a mother 's boy — I owe it all to her .
16 For a family with particular needs for quiet it was ideal , and when Mr Cohen was well a short walk took them into this repose of diverting potential .
17 I was explaining this to your door porters when a most helpful youngster kindly took me in his charge and escorted me into this room . ’
18 It was as if Jack had driven her , herded her into this enlightenment , and a terrible pleasure had come to her aid .
19 After all , I almost dragged you into this , and if it 's not what you hoped for then I 've no right to pin you down . ’
20 But they got us into this mess , it 's up to them to get us out of it .
21 You got us into this , was my uncharitable thought , now you hold the fort while we climb out of it .
22 ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer .
23 ‘ The people who seem to be giving us all the orders now are the very people who , um , got us into this trouble in the first place ! ’
24 ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess .
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