Example sentences of "have get [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months .
2 But then , as far as I am concerned , the Archbishop is the nearest thing the Church of England has got to a superstar .
3 ‘ The whole thing has got to a ludicrous stage when that is used as a stick to beat me . ’
4 Does it surprise you that the government seemingly has got into a rather insensitive and delicate position over this ?
5 He has got through a dozen of them over the years and generations of cricketers have passed by .
6 She has to get through a lot of work but always accept interruptions .
7 No I think they 'd got to a point where , you know , if you , if you were about erm , they made sure they were the first ones there like the and they , I think they more or less recognized by the merchants they , they were the boatmen .
8 I think there were some people there who did n't really know , but they maybe went because they 'd got to a funeral .
9 He 'd got into a rut .
10 And then came the night his whole world had collapsed , the night he 'd got into a drunken brawl in a harbour side bar and punched a major in the mouth .
11 She 'd got into a lot of trouble over many little things , for instance , her clothes in the changing room were being thrown down in a pool of water , and was soaking wet , she had to take them to matron to be dried , matron was cross .
12 She 'd got through a call to him on the radio-phone that Kaptan was safe .
13 No , who was that I 'd got ta a statement about then ?
14 He was wearing the démodé pinstriped suit he 'd got from a junk-shop for a production of Arturo Ui ( ‘ grossly overplayed' — Glasgow Herald ) and the tie he 'd worn as Harry in Marching Song ( ‘ adequate if uninspiring' — Oxford Mail .
15 well I 'd go along with that but what I was saying was I , I thought you might become more confrontational and if you were then we 'd 've got into a bit of a tennis match there and but then you did n't go down that route , that 's what I 'm saying , you did n't actually go down that cos if you had 've done we 'd 've got nowhere
16 ‘ And that I have had to get through a lot of long silences with both of you . ’
17 How could coypu have got into a Suffolk pond ?
18 She made between 70 and 90 blouses a week which , despite the low rate of pay , compares well with what she might have got as a part-time worker in a sweat shop , the most likely alternative .
19 If you 'd known me when I was 12 or 14 , there was no way I 'd have got near a stage .
20 Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty .
21 We do n't have to get to a certain stage of holiness .
22 We do n't have to get to a certain stage of sinlessness , before God will give to us the Holy Spirit .
23 You might think anybody involved with caring for animals would be soft to the core , but in Gillian 's case , you 'd have to get through a tough layer first .
24 They often agree to intercourse because they feel they must or they think they 've got to a certain age where they have to do it .
25 well then we 'd all be tremendously specific , well let me ask some one who does drive around on the closest we 've got to a tank driver here , Gillian you drive something very large
26 They 've got to a adjust the tie backs , they have n't put the tie backs up yet because they 've got to come down a bit , I just hung them up to let them drop a bit .
27 She 's sort of got with children then because this erm testing , they 've got to a school work outside
28 You know you always talk too much when you 've got over a bad turn . ’
29 Anyway , when he , when he came back again we had to come back cos see we had another delivery of gravel and we ordered three yards and we reckon that on the last journey we bought two yards , we 've got over a yard too much gravel !
30 I remember a little boy , I 've got on a picture with me he was a very very poor child and he made the best gloves in the class and it was a real sort of accolade for him .
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