Example sentences of "get in [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 2 | With the game going into added time Michael Galwey , after good work by Geoghegan , Clarke and Bradley , got in for an Irish try . |
| 3 | He got in through a half-closed larder window . |
| 4 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 5 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 6 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 7 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 8 | ‘ There is no way we would have got in under a Labour government . ’ |
| 9 | Ask around among advertising writers and you will find they have got in through a dozen different doors : journalism , the entertainment business , being secretaries , or just by having a go . |
| 10 | I get in from a dull lunch and find your urgent communication on my desk . |
| 11 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't just wake up one morning and say ‘ Oh gee , I ca n't get in for a facial — I might as well have a baby ’ . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I had help getting in here , ’ Hari said quickly , ‘ I did n't get in through a bolted door on my own now , did I ? ’ |
| 14 | East Stand ) Neither of them are now at leeds , one is playing in the USA and the other is dossing around for a year ( so he says ) before trying to get in with a lower division club . |