Example sentences of "[vb past] get [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd got fed up with her everlasting sweetness and shown her up in class the day before .
2 And it more or less made it that we 'd got to go back for the ten and thruppence .
3 Well came from Bar which is er a matter of six miles , six to eight miles out side Girran and you 'd got to come in by foot or by trap .
4 And er I was informed like that er I I had d stop till six o'clock at night , that night , and I was informed that er I 'd got to come back at night and bring me men .
5 If only he 'd got caught up in politics , or good works , or become a governor of his old school , he 'd have been taken out of himself more ?
6 The message is , kites flying is serious stuff , not just an afternoon spent getting blown about on top of a hill until your kite gets stuck in a tree and you go home .
7 If that happened , or you started to get bogged down in an episode , you could always use the Doctor as a diversion .
8 I had nowhere to go and I kept getting thrown out of places .
9 He seemed to like that , although he did get fed up with it .
10 A five-pound note that had got muddled up with his handkerchief fluttered to the floor , and he looked at it accusingly , though without making a move .
11 Have been too close to it and it had , and the vents at the back had got churned up with dust at one time , I keep dusting it now .
12 It has been said by some writers that he had got caught up in an extravaganza far beyond both his intention and his control .
13 Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board .
14 I knew exactly what I was looking for , they had to be here somewhere , the one and only pair of knickers left uncontaminated in that disastrous load at the launderette , the stuff that had got washed along with that bargain-price bright-pink non-fast Indian-cotton mini-skirt from C&A .
15 But erm because I 've been out there doing this and that 's that was part of my if you like to come in to do the recruitment side of it , er I had to experience and I 'm glad I did because there were one or two pre-judgements I had about advertising sales , as most people do , erm that I had to get wiped out of my erm my my system .
16 ‘ I feel I should say that if I had to get washed up on a beach minus my memory I was lucky the beach was yours , Dr Vaughan . ’
17 And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud .
18 Now do you think anybody who was n't already tied in to that wanted to get tied in at that time ? ’
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