Example sentences of "got [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got asked about it for months . |
| 2 | He had always skipped swimming because he got teased about his bones sticking out . |
| 3 | Oh , admittedly the novels are n't available there , but people got to know about it and wondered how she had the nerve to reveal it . |
| 4 | Put the board up , too , by all means — yes , it 's quite all right ; such things are not prohibited in Catkin Lane — but the handbills would ensure that everybody got to know about you . |
| 5 | Anyway , the clergyman who came to look after those who were C of E got to know about Grandma 's skill as a sewer and also knew that a little bit of extra money would be welcome in her household . |
| 6 | Then the more we got to know about it the more I had to laugh . |
| 7 | ‘ Sir , you know we do , though how you got to know about them I ca n't imagine . ’ |
| 8 | When I came over here I got to know about Kyrle Hall [ a Birmingham amateur club ] and went along there with my pumps and shorts and that was my introduction to boxing really . |
| 9 | Well I got to know about them when I first got married , when I was in the back street , you know in the terraces . |
| 10 | People just got to know about her . |
| 11 | Jamie and I got pushed about a bit and nearly fell down a couple of times , but we survived through to the end of the night without any scrapes . |
| 12 | see I fed the dog Dawn , I get a and er I fell , well , he got fed about five o'clock tonight you know . |
| 13 | Or if they did it was so modern that nobody got to hear about it . |
| 14 | Apparently he got to hear about a particularly tricky deal prepared by three Japanese whaling companies to come with quota proposals , and he knew that one of the companies was taking a very different view from the other two , and he hoped that there could be a divide-and-rule situation set up . |
| 15 | We got to hear about this " mad American " who had designed and built himself a magnificent villa in an almost inaccessible spot on the side of the mountain . |
| 16 | The only mistakes were Lucy 's own , and she quickly got to hear about them . |
| 17 | Not , not at that particu when they got to hear about it . |
| 18 | I got to hear about it from the police . ’ |
| 19 | Most people got to hear about it afterwards and he did get a bit of stick . |
| 20 | So what have we got to do about it ? |
| 21 | ‘ Well , like I said , I got t'thinkin' about how our Triad friend would go about gittin' himself an ’ his goon squad clear , if the buildin' wuz surrounded by a hostile force . |
| 22 | Rest of the cast fought him off but the tenor got cut about quite badly and had to go to hospital . |
| 23 | Then he got talking about you , asked me if I 'd ever heard of you . ’ |
| 24 | And Grandfather went and spoke to him , and got talking about one or two things ; and my grandfather said : |
| 25 | I was keeping a glass of chablis company the other day with Jonathan Hayden and Fiona Brownlee from Pavilion Books , and we got talking about what might have happened in grown-up life to the heroes and heroines of the children 's books of our youth . |
| 26 | She knows the woman who cleans for the Sheldrake practice , and the other day , while waiting in the bus shelter , they got talking about Dawn and Robert . |
| 27 | and erm you know , she 'd come from Hampshire apparently and she an an yo you know , er we got talking about ma and she 's taken her child away from the local school and sen , is now going to a little private school up the Tin Valley , near Tingrace apparently . |
| 28 | I got to think about this on my own . |
| 29 | I got to think about this . |
| 30 | You got to think about it ai n't you ? |