Example sentences of "get [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then we got ourselves into a winning position only for carelessness to force us to go back to their place for a replay . ’ |
| 2 | The photographic section on the camp was not very busy , having no aerial photos of enemy territory to decipher any more , and one of the photographic LACs got himself onto a good thing by setting himself up taking portraits , mostly of Waafs but a few airmen too . |
| 3 | He came to A Division and got himself into a lot of trouble through damn stupidity . |
| 4 | Niki got himself into a series of accidents , some from ill judgement , some from overanxiety , some from inexperience . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , he got himself into a number of violent scrapes in Hollywood . |
| 6 | Dining in one restaurant with Hugh Paddick , he got himself into a furious row with a woman doctor at the next table , challenging her views on life . |
| 7 | The former '80s high flier is already well on the way to digging itself out of the mess it got itself into a few years back . |
| 8 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 9 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 10 | We have got ourselves into a rut |
| 11 | ‘ We 've got ourselves into a great position , even over our closest rivals in fourth and fifth spot , ’ says Gunn , who is in his seventh season with Norwich . |
| 12 | We then p positioned ourselves further into the room er P C obviously was still with me behind the shield erm once we 'd got ourselves in a in a better position , as far as we were concerned , P C then started talking to the people , erm who were in the bed . |
| 13 | He has several times got himself into a position of strength in his battle with parliament , and bartered it away for short-term gains . |
| 14 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 15 | I could sense the Colonel had got himself into a capricious and dangerous mood . |
| 16 | The European Patent Office has got itself into a mess over these issues because it has proceeded to patent life forms without first examining properly whether the EPC , when interpreted as it was originally intended , actually allows the patents the patent office has granted . |
| 17 | Hell 's teeth , I 'm just going to phone again , am I , only an hour after the last time — ‘ Little Bina 's got herself into a mess , ran away from home and got her bag nicked , can you come and fetch her quick cos she 's very frightened ? ’ |
| 18 | It 's wonderful , but she 's got herself into a state . |
| 19 | How could she have got herself into a mess like this ? |
| 20 | MY DAUGHTER and her husband have got themselves into a ridiculous situation and , though I could happily bang their heads together , I feel I 've got to help them . |
| 21 | Some hon. Members believe that the Tories have got themselves into a spot of bother in Scotland , and we are not referring to the occasional by-election disaster such as occurred in Kincardine and Deeside recently , or even to the reduction of Scottish Tory representation in the House to the completely inadequate level of nine . |
| 22 | I think Lewisham have got themselves into a ludicrous state over people er . |
| 23 | Now has anybody actually got themselves in a total mess ? |
| 24 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I had got myself in a very foolish position . |
| 26 | Have you got yourself into a total er |
| 27 | 'E 's got 'imself in a bit o' trouble , ’ she said in a whisper . |
| 28 | But I think that to allow those two sort of issues to get too inseparable , as it were , to so that we simply regard ourselves as being in a position to issue directives about behaviour , which do n't acknowledge that these are young people who have to learn to be autonomous , then we get ourselves onto a hiding for nothing . |
| 29 | There the wee man goes and spoils it all by sayin' he 's not an ice man and if we get ourselves into a really bad pressure ridge he could n't say fur sure what would happen . |
| 30 | He had no intention of getting himself into a stew about that . |