Example sentences of "had got [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years previously , a campaign to write into the Irish constitution the existing legislation criminalizing abortion had got under way under the name of the Pro-Life Amendment Campaign . |
| 2 | How it had got to London from Houston he did not know or want to know . |
| 3 | On the morning of 12 August Baldwin , who had got to Angers in the Loire , was summoned back and arrived early the following day . |
| 4 | Once I had got to grips with how to work the machine I noticed that the harmoniser in the machine did n't appear to work properly : ie. if I set the interval to a major 3rd , the processor would intermittently switch between a major 3rd and a minor 3rd . |
| 5 | They had been caught playing mother and father in the hay rick and Tristram had got into trouble for it and Uncle Harry had said evil things and called her mother a whore . |
| 6 | In a free-spending secret life , Brian Courtenay , former businessman , local councillor , Tory committee chairman and master of his masonic lodge , had got through £200,000 to £300,000 — leaving the woman who wed him as a virgin 38 years earlier , almost penniless and deep in debt . |
| 7 | The police at Southampton had got in touch with Bath , asking what was to be done with the bike , as it had apparently been abandoned . |
| 8 | Looking through wanted notices later on , he had picked out George and a reward-seeking Sheriff had got in touch with Jack Clarke . |
| 9 | Rev Kenneth had got in touch with ENSA . |
| 10 | ‘ When you asked her whether anyone from Helsinki had got in touch with her , that 's when she lied . |
| 11 | And er I well remember on one occasion in the course of my analysis with Anna Freud I had the uncanny feeling , well this was more than an uncanny feeling , I think it was the reality , I touched the superego of Sigmund Freud because at one point I said something in my analysis which implied that her father , for instance , might have some interest in religion and Anna Freud flared up and what I felt was flaring was her superego and this was the superego she had got by identification with her father . |