Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] got [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You went to college so you got into the Socialist Worker 's Party or whatever . |
| 2 | And then other firms did that and er they was the same people nearly , got their own lines and it was worse that was , so they got onto the same lines and er the competition became then financial |
| 3 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 4 | I agree with everything you 've said until you got to the last bit . |
| 5 | We did all right until we got to the last bit and I got my foot caught in Otley 's pocket when he tried to bend down , he fell and flung me over his head knocking my wig skew-whiff . |
| 6 | On we went , par after par , until we got to the 16th and I thought , this must be it . |
| 7 | ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League . |
| 8 | Erm , but I do , I mean if we were hogging another , I mean , if we got in the new , like you just got in the new software for the Mac |
| 9 | turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down . |
| 10 | So the guy who 'd been fired took one of the cars from the agency and he got on the wrong road ; they 'd forgotten about curfew , probably they were too drunk and they did n't stop when a South Vietnamese barrage challenged them . |
| 11 | He grabbed his passport but did n't open it until he got to the Hungarian border . |
| 12 | and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having |
| 13 | But you got into the Soviet Union and it 's difficult at first for me to get emotionally connected to the story . |
| 14 | But he got to the final table of the championship again this year . |
| 15 | That was , that , but it got over the main point of the story . |
| 16 | IT WAS once an independent state , all 32 square miles of it ; but it got on the wrong side of the local superpower , whereupon angry Athens exiled its inhabitants for daring to ally themselves with Sparta . |
| 17 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 18 | Are you gon na take Mary after you got in the second year ? |
| 19 | Before we got to the first tee I could see that Jack was already on edge — or more on edge , rather , because a hangover had already eaten into his small reserves of patience and equanimity . |
| 20 | At the end of the long road Reynolds ' was the first house they had to pass and they started to cringe into themselves behind Moran even before they got to the little hedge of privet above the whitewashed stones . |
| 21 | Before he got to the real problem . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Gower , who will be in India this winter commentating for BSkyB , last night changed his position on the protest , saying : ‘ I had hoped they might drop this before it got to the full meeting . |
| 23 | He seemed disappointed and I soon saw why when I got into the main hall . |
| 24 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 25 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |
| 26 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 27 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 28 | As soon as I got to the other side of the bank I threw myself down and started to roll . ’ |
| 29 | When she got to the first landing , her mother 's bedroom door suddenly flew open and her mother burst out . |
| 30 | The first thing Carlie did when she got to the foster home was pull the plastic footrest up close to the TV : ‘ Do n't talk to me when ‘ Young and Restless ’ is on , ’ she warned the foster mother who was standing behind her . |