Example sentences of "get [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that got me to a lot of good for warmth ! |
| 2 | But it just got me into a lot of fights , that 's all . |
| 3 | I got them at a craft fair at farm . |
| 4 | You also got them on a |
| 5 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
| 6 | His mum probably got them from a jumble sale . |
| 7 | And they got them from a host of people including Lady Thatcher , the Princess of Wales , Noel Edmonds , Frank Muir , Cliff Richard , Sir Harry Secombe and Ian Botham . |
| 8 | ‘ We got you on a flight out of Dulles via Heathrow the day after tomorrow . |
| 9 | Not in Auckland , not the night I finally — oh , God , finally — got you on a bed … ’ |
| 10 | I think if you got maybe a twenty five year old who came to your school for a week and got you in a small group and talked about it , it would be great on a one to one basis . |
| 11 | Anyhow , ’ he continued , ‘ the three of us spent the day locked in consultation , as Marc called it , the result being that he came charging to my rescue , routed the two con-merchants , who thought they 'd got me over a barrel , and generally behaved like the perfect human being he is . ’ |
| 12 | It started with a piece of foolishness that could have got me into a deal of trouble had I not have had a wise check in time from the inspector . |
| 13 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 14 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 15 | He 's got them on a |
| 16 | Got them over , they , they said , they said they know they 've got them over a barrel . |
| 17 | Now you can see Body Shop 's here , I 've got them in a nice box now . |
| 18 | So you can see when you get these two people together , it can be very difficult if you 've got them in a team . |
| 19 | Because the machine was so busy , just after the time he introduced it , the line was never available to do all the checks that were on that and it and Roland 's got them in a file there |
| 20 | They may be a long way from performing in the Greatest Show on Earth , but getting there has certainly got them in a spin . |
| 21 | And er he 's already he 's already got you at a disadvantage , by er er you 're on the move and he 's waiting for you . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry . |
| 23 | Surely by that time many of you must have realised that had got you into a right pickle over L M S and that you some of you I believe felt that but none of you spoke out about it . |
| 24 | They 've got you in a cage . |
| 25 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 26 | And she 's got him into a very good er nursery school apparently . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's got him on a pedestal . ’ |
| 28 | She , she 's got him on a string ai n't she ! |
| 29 | Had they got it through a Council then ? |
| 30 | And I ai n't done , I ai n't got it to a thousand yet . |