Example sentences of "get [vb pp] in 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 | ‘ He was working one day , painting from nature , and got caught in a rainstorm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Starting twelfth , Hunt got caught in a battle with Tom Pryce and went off the track and into a sand trap . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then he got injured in a field and had to be off for a year , but everything seems to be going well now . |
| 9 | Though an experienced skier , Pat and her friends had got caught in a blizzard and were making their way to shelter when Pat 's skis plunged into deep snow . |
| 10 | Having got signed in a hurry , Blink wisely decided to take their time and get their first records right . |
| 11 | I 've got sunk in a sort of despair . |
| 12 | There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear . |
| 13 | They get trapped in a place and there , it 's filling with water and they , they 've got ta get them , they got ta , they gon na drown because it 's filling with water and they got ta get out , get out before the room fills with water completely . |
| 14 | The absence of deals has led to speculation that advertisers , wary of getting caught in a US-Japan economic crossfire , are ‘ frightened ’ of Yamaguchi because of her Japanese name and heritage . |
| 15 | I leave Darius shuffling in the litter while I ease up to the bedroom and try on a smile like when the pink Panther gets caught in a scrape . |
| 16 | ROMANTIC comedy about an egotistical TV weatherman who gets caught in a time-warp and decides to paint the town red and indulge his secret fantasies . |
| 17 | ( There is always a danger of pinning in any kayak or canoe but on rivers the chances of getting trapped in a boat are , of course , much higher than on the sea . ) |
| 18 | Get born in Iran , emigrate to the US , get caught in a pot you should never have been in , and wait till it climbs into seven figures before you call and fill an 11–1 inside straight . |
| 19 | It is not every day that an actor gets eaten in a movie . |
| 20 | A Communist gets married in a village . |
| 21 | How does the heroic voice and the heroic image of the black woman get suppressed in a culture that depended on her heroism for its survival ? ’ |
| 22 | If you get married in a registry office , which I did , you do n't say an , in England , you do n't say anything other than that you take this chap to be your husband , and you interpret that to be as you wish . |
| 23 | You could , for nothing , real or imagined , the slightest slight , get crippled in a place like this . |
| 24 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |
| 25 | Some people work up for a lifetime to cross the Channel and then get published in a magazine . |
| 26 | ‘ He got hurt in a car crash , other side of Oxford , ’ volunteered Percy . |
| 27 | I bet if you fell in there you 'd get froze in a second . |
| 28 | They needed clothes that would not get torn in a fight , which would stay pressed and neat and which would identify them in a crowd . |
| 29 | After the recent upheaval of leaving her London flat it would be good to get settled in a place here in the town . |
| 30 | ‘ You see , my very dear Shiona , I 'm planning to get married in a couple of weeks ’ time . ’ |