Example sentences of "and got [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll go out and got to do that |
| 2 | He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all . |
| 3 | That time he played a yellow cab driver and got run over by his own cab . |
| 4 | If he had n't eaten it , I would have bought the cake at the auction and got rid of it . |
| 5 | He had got rid of Ken Livingstone from Labour 's national executive committee , and got rid too of Labour 's unilateralist nuclear policy . |
| 6 | Then the other one , whom your sister thinks must be the owner of the farm , apologized for a ‘ case of mistaken identity ’ , as he called it , and got rid of me as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | It really put a damper on the whole house and straight away cheered us up and got rid of the edginess we were all feeling . |
| 8 | The lead fisherman wore shades ( ever see fish wearing glasses ? ) for the bluesy number and got rid of them for a rappy tune ( thank God ! ) . |
| 9 | The main point was , did she or did she not think that the whole ghastly superstructure should be brought down and got rid of , root and branch , once and for all ? |
| 10 | She 'd moved the furniture around at the manor , he 'd noticed , and got rid of Amabel 's chintz chair covers by the look of it . |
| 11 | ‘ So I thought bugger this for a lark and got rid of them , and the next couple of days I tried to ring you , but … ’ |
| 12 | No , cunning bitch , she poisoned the feather and got rid of her husband . |
| 13 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 14 | I just picked it up and got rid of it . |
| 15 | If I 'd of been there I 'd of flogged that a long while ago and got rid of it |
| 16 | He 'd never been out on the roads and got killed . |
| 17 | BREAKFAST listeners were left in silence when two radio presenters nipped off for a coffee during the news — and got locked out of the studio . |
| 18 | ‘ And although all the travelling was tiresome , I played on some lovely grounds and got to visit many interesting places . |
| 19 | A number were unfortunate enough to be mistaken for spies after ‘ failing to heed warning challenges ’ , and got shot at , although there was only one reported death : a James Waddell of Grangemouth , near Edinburgh , was shot through the hand and heart as he was examining flood damage in the course of his employment duties . |
| 20 | ‘ But I ca n't be held responsible for — ’ she tried to argue — and got shot down in flames for her trouble . |
| 21 | I 'm finding something totally wrong with and got shot of it and then things have been |
| 22 | ‘ I took a liberty at 8-2 and got punished for it , ’ said Parrott . |
| 23 | And when Gittel cut my pride and my heart into pieces with her little sharp fingernails , and I let loose the dybbuk on her and got punished for it , I was neither one thing nor the other , once again . ’ |
| 24 | Finally , I 'd won the toss and got to drive the Bob Marley down to Kent . |
| 25 | ‘ About the interview … ’ she attempted — and got snarled at for her trouble . |
| 26 | He asked her to sign his wretched petition on Friday after he asked me , and got sent away with a flea in his ear . |
| 27 | But I held on to my tongue , and got sent to interview Scottish big ears , Paul Haig . |
| 28 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 29 | So , she went to decorate the hall and got sent out with people saying she was Jessica . |
| 30 | We got full houses ( it was only the bar seating 65 ) and got asked back . |