Example sentences of "get [pn reflx] into [art] " 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 | He came to A Division and got himself into a lot of trouble through damn stupidity . |
| 3 | Niki got himself into a series of accidents , some from ill judgement , some from overanxiety , some from inexperience . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , he got himself into a number of violent scrapes in Hollywood . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We have got ourselves into a rut |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | He has several times got himself into a position of strength in his battle with parliament , and bartered it away for short-term gains . |
| 10 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 11 | I could sense the Colonel had got himself into a capricious and dangerous mood . |
| 12 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 13 | BRIAN HALL : ‘ At that particular moment in time we have a manager that has got himself into the semi-final of the FA Cup , he 's got the opportunity of reaching Wembley , he 's had a difficult time in the League , it 's been a traumatic season okay , then he 's told he needs triple by-pass surgery at the age of 39 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | It 's wonderful , but she 's got herself into a state . |
| 17 | How could she have got herself into a mess like this ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I think Lewisham have got themselves into a ludicrous state over people er . |
| 21 | Sotheby 's Amsterdam , recently announced with pride that they had got themselves into The Guinness Book of Records . |
| 22 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 23 | Have you got yourself into a total er |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Get ourselves into the presence of the lord . |
| 26 | He had no intention of getting himself into a stew about that . |
| 27 | As it was , however , the US was slowly , and not too slowly , getting itself into a position where its responsibilities tended to supplant rather than complement those of the French : and this was something which at least had to be offset against all the delays that would ensue in European rearmament . |
| 28 | What they could find room to laugh at , however , was the way in which respectable England could ignore the realities of slum life for so many years , while showering the Empire with the benefits of Christianity and imperial wars , and then get itself into a respectable lather in such a short time about a few broken heads among rough lads . |
| 29 | My body gets itself into a state of refusal . |
| 30 | If the weaker goat gets itself into a position from which it can not escape , it may be gored , and indeed may be killed . |