Example sentences of "get involved " in BNC.
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| 1 | People like Joe Maitland make enemies an' I do n't want you gettin' involved wiv somefink what 's got nuffink ter do wiv yer , d'yer understand ? ’ |
| 2 | The workforce at France 's most successful car manufacturer has rejected an earlier management offer of a 1.5 per cent pay rise and , in the face of what is widely seen here as management intransigence , the government reluctantly got involved in the private sector dispute yesterday evening , announcing that it would appoint an official conciliator . |
| 3 | ‘ Why the hell have you got involved with this Crevecoeur nuisance ? |
| 4 | ‘ No , because I 've got involved in sorting out this live album . |
| 5 | Marlon may have got involved in a noble cause , but it got a lot of people 's backs up in the business . |
| 6 | Having said that , I have never got involved in the Black Women 's Movement . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Or , in the case of Antonia , her fame , her futon , her cheques from the newspapers and the cry : ‘ I wish I 'd never got involved with him . ’ |
| 9 | He said he he 's apparently just moved and he 's got involved with this other charity erm to do with the United Nations Friends of the Earth and just passed it on to me . |
| 10 | Now there was a mystery — how had his mother ever got involved with a shark like Michael lee , a miserable jumped-up half-caste , with his too soft handshake and his ice-cold calculating eyes ? |
| 11 | Its leaders were often student radicals , members of groups like the SDS ( Students for a Democratic Society ) ; but the wave of protest took in many young people who would not normally have got involved in politics . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the man she had been wary of seeing , who had a bad reputation , who in her right mind she should never have got involved with , had turned out to be a good man underneath . |
| 13 | But of course Joan 's tied up in the Hundred Years War , and Frank 's got involved in some great animal epic . |
| 14 | It was a matter of debate whether she was a widow or separated from her husband But I was not interested in such things ; the biggest mystery to me was how she ever got involved with a dog like Cedric . |
| 15 | On his return to Trinidad in 1948 , Eric Williams almost immediately got involved in public appearances at which he gave his opinions on historical topics concerning the West Indies and while his work for the Caribbean Commission strictly forbade any political involvement , it did not prevent him from opening a window on the West Indian past . |
| 16 | Why had she ever got involved in that slanging match in the first place ? she wondered with a dark surge of anger . |
| 17 | Inside the baker 's , Maisie had got involved in a complicated negotiation with the shopkeeper . |
| 18 | ‘ If we had n't got involved in fighting over Kirsty , we might never have found out how each of us really feels . ’ |
| 19 | But while jogging home from a disco last year he 'd got involved in a augument with twenty year old Darren Kelly . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few preliminary meetings so far to pick a training squad , and I 've also got involved in the training sessions themselves . |
| 21 | You wo n't want to extricate yourself from a personal promise or commitment , but you will begin to feel tied down and wish you 'd never got involved in the first place . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're delighted that Dunlop have got involved but the tournament would have taken place no matter what . |
| 23 | Liverpool 's inexperience meant they got sucked into the type of game a more experienced side would never have got involved in . |
| 24 | I ca n't undersa I ca n't understand how comes she 's got involved with the first ma guy to come along ? |
| 25 | have n't got involved in like taking friends and organizing and baking cakes and that sort of thing . |
| 26 | Cook left school at 14 to become an apprentice , got involved with radar and electronics during National Service , and graduated from Queen Mary College , London . |
| 27 | Is that why you got involved in the film about prison life , Ghosts of the Civil Dead ? |
| 28 | The administration therefore got involved with Iran again not out of conviction , but with a strong prod from Israel , whose emissaries kept turning up in London and Washington with their slightly unnerving proposals for rapprochement . |
| 29 | When Kylie first got involved in the film , rock megastar David Bowie was to have been the film 's executive producer . |
| 30 | I thought it was time you got involved in it too , my friend . |