Example sentences of "get [pers pn] into [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 2 | You got me into this mess . |
| 3 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 4 | It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess . |
| 5 | They had you by your short and curlies the minute they got you into that uniform . ’ |
| 6 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 7 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |
| 8 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 9 | Got them into this place . |
| 10 | It was Clive who had got her into this mess . |
| 11 | Part of her , that stubborn , spirited side , the side that had got her into this mess in the first place , would n't let her give up , back out and admit that Luke Denner and his sexuality were more than she could handle . |
| 12 | So what can he do — having got us into this mess — for the good of OUR people ? |
| 13 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 14 | The reason why it 's quite a good thing to do is because it gets you into descriptive language okay and thinking about how you describe things , adjectives are describing words . |
| 15 | ‘ And I 'm sorry , too , ’ puts in Rainbow , ‘ for getting you into this mess in the first place . |
| 16 | ‘ I would have written sooner , but I was afraid of getting you into some trouble . |
| 17 | ‘ Getting you into more trouble . |
| 18 | To improve his nutritional state and get him into clinical remission before surgery he was given Elemental 028 but immediately became systemically unwell and developed diarrhoea and vomiting . |
| 19 | And Larder , who was Goulding 's mentor on the 1990 tour to New Zealand , warns that he must control the wild instincts which keep getting him into hot water . |
| 20 | The ability to make long-range plans is at a premium in early middle game , and the machine 's low level of ability in this department usually gets it into terrible trouble . |
| 21 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 23 | For example , his belief that the leader 's job was to set a policy and leave his subordinates to implement it — the belief that he had expressed at the War College in the 1920s ( see page 4 ) — got him into deep water in Algeria . |
| 24 | The thing that I object to is that many old people and the disabled relied on taxis to get them into that area , and I would say that Hackney Carriage vehicles should be allowed in . |
| 25 | The youth may want to buy a motor bike , but his mother wants him to purchase an old car because she thinks bikes are dangerous and will get him into bad company . |
| 26 | I just thought , yeah , I could just get him into big shit now ! |
| 27 | I used to be a professional cleaner — I do n't want to get her into any trouble , I … ’ |
| 28 | The way I got into national radio from local radio was listening to programmes and thinking , ‘ I could interview X , and I could get it into that programme , if I could do it in that format . ’ |
| 29 | I want to get it into brilliant condition first . |
| 30 | I did n't get us into this mess — ’ She broke off with a guilty look over her shoulder . |