Example sentences of "it [vb past] get a " in BNC.

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1 I mean you know what happened when , wh when th General Strike was on , there was er nothing entered unless it 'd got a permit from a Trades Council , and you know that do n't you ?
2 That 's a bit like that thingy but it was bald and it 'd got a bad , ever such a bad
3 So a local authority might then find itself in a situation that it 'd got a two tier site .
4 And then it began to get a bit darker .
5 It took about nine months before it started getting a grip of us really .
6 Actually it started getting a bit better from when I telephoned .
7 cos I had a right old attitude , I mean , I mean , I know it sounds modest , but , I was doing it well , do n't get me wrong , I was doing it , and I , but then it started getting a bit
8 It started getting a little bit stressful in fact , yes ?
9 ‘ I turned down a new contract at the end of the season , even though it meant getting a testimonial next year because I 've got to be playing in the Premier League to confirm my place in the Irish side .
10 Only just as long as it took to get a licence . ’
11 By an almost unbelievable contrast , the summit was not even mentioned on the main 8 pm television news in France ( Antenne 2 ) , although it did get a ten second slot as the tenth item on the midnight news bulletin .
12 The It never changed all that much , but it did get a great deal closer .
13 It did get a bit rocky after she became pregnant .
14 I think er it did get a very bad name .
15 No-one wants to have a glare lamp in their face at closing time nor to have a doorman shouting ‘ Drink up ’ in the middle of an act even if it did get a laugh .
16 It had survived because it had got a metallic thread running through it .
17 Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ?
18 it had got a little tiny mark on the door , you know , as you opened it
19 and we came to look at this one and it had got an inner hall and in the position was
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