Example sentences of "got [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 2 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 3 | You got me into this mess . |
| 4 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 5 | I know it was only the extra weight of the Cross that got me up that hill . |
| 6 | It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess . |
| 7 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 8 | They had you by your short and curlies the minute they got you into that uniform . ’ |
| 9 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 11 | For example , his belief that the leader 's job was to set a policy and leave his subordinates to implement it — the belief that he had expressed at the War College in the 1920s ( see page 4 ) — got him into deep water in Algeria . |
| 12 | oh I 'll have to have look down there then , cos we buy 'em , now where do we get 'em from now ? , er Co-Op we got 'em from last time did n't we ? |
| 13 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 14 | We got it for four pound fifty . |
| 15 | and if you got it through this gold card there was another five percent off so or something like that off . |
| 16 | With some , like Tony Jacklin or Susan Hampshire , it is perfectly obvious they got it through hard work in their particular calling . |
| 17 | Well I got it from that travel agents |
| 18 | Mm , we went in that , we went and got me barm cakes and a bit , a few veg and that , went , oh I bought Li Joanne a little set of er instead of an Easter egg , it 's quite nice , I got it from that shop , you know erm next to Kingston and Hutch |
| 19 | But they got us into this mess , it 's up to them to get us out of it . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess . |
| 22 | ‘ The people who seem to be giving us all the orders now are the very people who , um , got us into this trouble in the first place ! ’ |