Example sentences of "get [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I can understand how my friends got mixed up in all that . |
2 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
3 | She coughed loudly and said loudly , ‘ And I 'm gettin' frozen up in all these draughts . ’ |
4 | last I got moved back in last night . |
5 | so they 've still got to go back in three months , she was , I hope I 've not got to come back and pay , so what the |
6 | Cos I 've got to go out in ten minutes , I 'm going to get my hair done and you 're going to look after Jim are n't you ? |
7 | Yeah , I 've got to go out in half an hour , actually . |
8 | ‘ He would n't have got mixed up in all this if he was n't young and fit . |
9 | You 've not got mixed up in any fiddles ? ’ |
10 | Except that she 's got to clock in in five minutes time . |
11 | TOP has got bogged down in some areas . |
12 | What other little maggots have you got running around in that fertile brain of yours ? ’ |
13 | ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ? |
14 | There 's no one standing there so it 's getting caught up in that traffic jam at the bridge I would have thought they 're all queuing to get on the bridge in the morning . |
15 | The DIA was worried about DEA personnel getting caught up in secret intelligence missions , he explained . |
16 | Overall that would be the right thing to do as the story of Rosandra , a model who gets caught up in three ponderous political intrigues , is very laboured indeed . |
17 | If they start boxing young they never get caught up in that scene . ’ |
18 | ‘ Why did n't you call the police instead of getting mixed up in such an event ? ’ one of the governors asked . |
19 | ‘ All Bonanza has to do now is stay out of sight until a good tale is dreamed up to account for two of his boys getting mixed up in this thing last night , and a few unimpeachable witnesses to make the tale stick , and we all go back where we started . ’ |
20 | Everyone , I 'm sure , has a ‘ little black dress ’ type of pattern , by which I mean a perennial favourite that gets made up in different yarns and colours over the years for various celebrations , parties and so on . |
21 | It is not only individuals who get ravelled up in this native/non-native business . |
22 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
23 | By developing the chart analysis as Hayzen does , one can avoid getting bogged down in detailed variances and concentrate on strategy . |
24 | Be careful that you do n't end up writing a novel or get bogged down in pseudo poetry with no end in view . |
25 | And so we 've , now , you know , in these times when you get tied up in red tape and bureaucratic mess everywhere the speed at which has achieved this is admirable and I do really thank you for that . |
26 | With her were daughters Beatrice , four , and Eugenie , two , who wasted no time in getting kitted out in matching silver ski suits . |
27 | Second , higher prices for imported fuel and material inputs raise domestic costs and then get passed on in higher output prices . |
28 | ‘ We get dressed up in all these silly clothes which set us apart from others . |
29 | ‘ Like I said , I enjoyed being with her , but you would have to be some kind of retard to get turned on in those scenes by thinking I am kissing a sex symbol … |
30 | ‘ If a department has an internal review it can get bogged down in internal considerations . |