Example sentences of "get [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got trapped in a hole , and no one could get near enough to get them out . |
| 2 | The South Shropshire coroner , Tony Sibsey , said it would never be known whether the boys had watched the episode of ‘ Neighbours ’ when a young boy got trapped in a trunk trying to hide from his father . |
| 3 | Yeah he got trapped in a car park and he could n't get out for ages and ages and then as he got out he crashed into another car . |
| 4 | A camel is a horse which got designed by a committee . |
| 5 | It was blow-out , on the driver 's side , and erm , well we just lost it , the wheel was snatched out of his hand when the tyre went and the next thing we just slammed into the barrier and then got catapulted into a concrete wall , |
| 6 | ‘ He was working one day , painting from nature , and got caught in a rainstorm . |
| 7 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 8 | Starting twelfth , Hunt got caught in a battle with Tom Pryce and went off the track and into a sand trap . |
| 9 | That was n't the end of it : Ephraim did n't fall far , he got caught in a bush , but he saw the man who was trying to rescue him go all the way down . ’ |
| 10 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 11 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Then he got injured in a field and had to be off for a year , but everything seems to be going well now . |
| 14 | Now I remember another chap , he got done with a pothole . |
| 15 | You only got to walk into a room , people like you , and you can talk with anyone , you understand things , but when … |
| 16 | I got bitten by a rat . |
| 17 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 18 | I 've never got stopped on a bike . |
| 19 | A heavy drinker , obsessive gambler and renowned conversationalist , Bacon frequently felt that his work was misinterpreted : ‘ You 've only got to go into a butcher 's shop , like Harrod 's food hall . |
| 20 | You 've got to go for a ball that 's on the table . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got to go to a Fatherhood Class , ’ he told Jane gloomily . |
| 22 | No , it 's got to go to a reader instead . |
| 23 | I 've got to go to a meeting . |
| 24 | Well it means I 've got to go on a Thursday so if you run out of money on a Tuesday with run out . |
| 25 | No he 's go he 's got to go in a bed soon . |
| 26 | you 've got to go in a minute love |
| 27 | Tim erm licked your knife , right can we erm have a I 've got to go in a minute . |
| 28 | I 'll explain it to you , if you 've got to stand in a circle because you ca n't see from over there you wo n't actually ever do this yourself , but you may well see it being done , in fact you probably will . |
| 29 | Well , this has got to come in a letter , I mean , this is what we want . |
| 30 | at least I know I have n't got to worry about a divorce |