Example sentences of "and got [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , I first started feeling I was overweight when I fourteen and I was , I was twelve stone and I went to the doctor and got black capsules to take which had me as high as a kite for a long time ! |
| 2 | 10,000 Maniacs toured the UK extensively last year and got great responses . |
| 3 | 10,000 Maniacs toured the UK extensively last year and got great responses . |
| 4 | It went on and on and got louder and louder . |
| 5 | In 1987 , the Metropolitan Police asked for 66 , and got 57 . |
| 6 | And got heavier as they left the small station and straggled down a steep , cinder path . |
| 7 | The notion took hold in Vicente at an early age and got serious reinforcement when he arrived in America from his native Spain ( by way of Paris ) and began to form lasting relationships with many other , then unknown , artists of the New York avant-garde . |
| 8 | I came to the school some time ago to investigate the giant eel and got lost . |
| 9 | ‘ He might have just taken a walk and got lost , ’ said Pascoe without conviction . |
| 10 | ‘ I went for a walk in the woods and got lost . |
| 11 | But within a minute that Renault could have turned off the main road and got lost in the maze of lanes to the west of Sandwich Flats . |
| 12 | She had got stuck getting out of Belfast , and got lost trying to take a short cut round the traffic jam . |
| 13 | Well David did n't sleep a lot and got thinner and thinner . |
| 14 | At other times in vacations he spent weeks doing hard reading in the library of Cambridge University and got good talks with Hoskyns . |
| 15 | However we stopped and got good directions . |
| 16 | When authority had remedied the imaginary grievances and the violence still went on , and got worse and worse , then people said , ‘ Authority must be disposed of , because clearly it is evilly intentioned . ’ |
| 17 | I mean he tried the Forest defence out on the left-hand side t to start with switched the player and got young Lewis in and really Forest could have done with a better ball er sorry Leicester could have done with a better final ball from Lewis . |
| 18 | When the Headmaster wanted a little exercise , you bent over a chair and got six — twelve with a cane on the backside ; if you were hit just below the buttocks on the legs , it hurt more . |
| 19 | it 's not like my brother did in his physics degree where he sort of ended up getting twelve percent overall in his second year and then took the year again and got six percent erm that 's very difficult to do in psychology erm |
| 20 | I went into a YWCA and got pregnant and frightened . ’ |
| 21 | Then I stayed with him and got pregnant . |
| 22 | ‘ If you was anyone else , I 'd say , get divorced , but you did that once and then you went and got married again . |
| 23 | Yeah but Eric Eric took one bag and took how many four different samples and got four different readings out of one bag . |
| 24 | We were caught and got four strokes each . |
| 25 | ‘ But we tunnelled through and got two little kids out alive . |
| 26 | Lyn was up 7–1 ( ! ) to Brann away and looked to have saved themselves with three minutes to go — but they relaxed to early and got two late , late goals against them and thus won 7–3 , a goal to little and was relegated . |
| 27 | When McMillan was short by inches at the seventh , Smith drew the button and got two on a measure . |
| 28 | Yeah cos what , what they said like , their own , cos they run out of wine at the bar and er , they went in the supermarket and got two bottles of wine and kept them on the table you see |
| 29 | It was on a programme the other night saying the advice bureau are on the er companies cos some bloke , they were employing him to do something and he sued them and got two grand out of them . |
| 30 | I clambered over the rubble where I thought it was safe to do so , and got one piece of the great white pulpit , and the last page of the Bible I knew had been used by Dr Thomas Chalmers before his mission to New Guinea . |