Example sentences of "got [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walker , 52 who leaves widow and two children , had been out with his brother Graham when the pair got off route on steep , loose ground . |
| 2 | And do n't you recall the ribbing you got off Father when you were fifteen and were caught in there with a girl … or was it a woman ? |
| 3 | Somehow or other , the vicar got off stage , and disappeared behind the altar , perhaps off to hurl himself into the flames that would shortly be consuming Donald . |
| 4 | ‘ Our family got off light altogether , ’ Mrs Lennox said . |
| 5 | ‘ But you still got off cocaine ? |
| 6 | just talk to them , just so short staffed , I do n't know when Jim last got off duty on time |
| 7 | I think that 's why I got through life as well as I did . |
| 8 | I thought he said he got through book one but is there some stuff in it he does n't understand yet ? |
| 9 | Councillors were told that many businesses looked upon the refuse collection service as one of the few tangible benefits they got for payment of business rates . |
| 10 | So we 're gon na catch every traffic light on red now there was something I wanted to go into Wisbech for but I ca n't think for the life of me what it was , I must get stuck into this Christmas shopping again , really must so much to do and such little time to do it in oh he 's , he 's put that car down five hundred pounds , that price of that car was , that he got for sale on it seven , seven , nine , five , |
| 11 | It was in a little book I once got for Christmas called Ghosts and Other Weird Creatures . |
| 12 | ‘ Ah , but he did in the annuals I got for Christmas . |
| 13 | she said she got for Christmas |
| 14 | What you got for Christmas Day ? |
| 15 | Look what I got for mother . |
| 16 | United 's best chance of the half came just a minute later ; Martin Foyle ran on to the perfect Paul Simpson through ball , he actually got past goal keeper Andy Gosney but he was forced just a little bit wide . |
| 17 | And then you got Ex Layer erm forty four pound ninety nine . |
| 18 | By what route the technique got into West Africa — or even whether it was independently devised there — can not be ascertained until we have discovered more sites of the first millennium AD , and earlier in West Africa . |
| 19 | It was the same when we got into smack . |
| 20 | Unsurprisingly very many peasants got into debt . |
| 21 | Tony O'Brien first got into photography because he did n't know what he wanted to do . |
| 22 | Thanks to that law , Chase Manhattan got into insurance , using external investment advisers provided through a joint-venture with GNA Corp , an annuity and insurance broker-dealer . |
| 23 | Boo was only a rather slow boy who got into mischief and had a punishment inflicted on him that was greater than the crime by his narrowminded father . |
| 24 | E eventually they got into parliament . |
| 25 | We got into pot at the same time , we got into acid at the same time and then there was more smack around than pot , so we got into that . |
| 26 | Someone has typed in the team news already ( I actually got into teh ground a bit late so I missed the starting line-up ) . |
| 27 | So next time someone copies what you are wearing , or wants to know how you got into shape — take it as a real compliment . |
| 28 | In fact , I only became a half decent painter after I got into art college . |
| 29 | I had never cooked a healthy meal and I was only there a month when I got into burglary . ’ |
| 30 | The people who were on the radio when I first got into listening were really fine singers , people like Perry Como , Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby , but good as they were , they did n't inspire me to be like them . |