Example sentences of "got [pers pn] into [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 2 | You got me into this mess . |
| 3 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 4 | It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess . |
| 5 | They had you by your short and curlies the minute they got you into that uniform . ’ |
| 6 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But they got us into this mess , it 's up to them to get us out of it . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |