Example sentences of "get [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Then he got injured in a field and had to be off for a year , but everything seems to be going well now . |
| 12 | Now I remember another chap , he got done with a pothole . |
| 13 | I got bitten by a rat . |
| 14 | I 've never got stopped on a bike . |
| 15 | He did have the ambition to do more serious work , as he had in Saint Joan and he had done in those early days in rep , but suddenly , he had got sucked into a formula that became a very comfortable rut indeed and , surprisingly for those who thought they knew him well , he did n't want to find a way out . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 'm sure that if I was still living in England we would n't have got the push that we had on the last album and we would n't have got nominated for a Grammy . |
| 18 | You know cancel any of your big debts because it 's going to help your budgeting if you know that you 've got rid of a lot of er |
| 19 | If you 've got rid of a doorway , or turned two rooms into one , round it off with an arch kit which you plaster over ; add stylish fibrous plaster arch mouldings and corbels ; or frame it in wood . |
| 20 | ‘ Odd place to be , if you 'd just got rid of a baby . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It may interest you to learn , oh Wise and Wonderful One , ’ said Cassie tartly , ‘ that we 've only just got rid of a woman Prime Minister . |
| 22 | Having got signed in a hurry , Blink wisely decided to take their time and get their first records right . |
| 23 | I 've got sunk in a sort of despair . |
| 24 | I do n't still have it , no , no it had got knocked about a bit , you know , being moved hither and thither and the other people have had it a bit as well as us , because we bought it from the people who lived next door when they left you see , cos when we started in here , we did n't have any carpets on these floors or under here it 's brown Marley tiling and I can still show you that |
| 25 | My brother was like that once , he , he used to hate he used to hate he used to hate peas thank you , and once he got invited to a friend of his and there was peas , and he put just of four peas on his plate and said |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | P. A. I got called as a witness in a motoring case , and it came up when I was on nights and I had to get up and call in the solicitor . |
| 28 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 29 | He tried to duck under the ropes to come over to us , but gets stopped by a security man who asks him what he 's playing at . |
| 30 | They say you 're an adult but because you are still in the school situation you still get treated as a child . |