Example sentences of "got into [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One day a subaltern got into a first-class railway carriage and found sitting there a ‘ coloured gentleman ’ .
2 I 'd tell you like a shot if we ever got into a real jam .
3 He got into a good crowd , people that thought like he did .
4 At another party , this one held by Gloria Swanson , silent screen hero Norman Kerry got into a drunken argument with director Marshall ( Mickey ) Neilan .
5 Cilla Black once got into a shouting match at a charity show when she tried to cry up her beloved Thatcher and met with voluble consumer resistance .
6 All right then yeah , like I was saying I got into a massive argument with him last night I had an argument with Osman , right
7 They got into a big car and drove away .
8 The shy young visitor was soon disputing with Wordsworth almost on equal terms ; and next evening , while Coleridge was providing Dorothy with superfluous explanations about the different notes of the nightingale , Hazlitt and Wordsworth ‘ got into a metaphysical argument ’ which may have inspired two of the most genial of the Lyrical Ballads — ‘ Expostulation and Reply ’ , and ‘ The Tables Turned ’ , both of them written ‘ in front of the house at Alfoxden ’ .
9 One produced a gun before they got into a yellow Ford Escort and drove off .
10 Instead he told the judge that if he let his son go free , he would see to it that his got into no more trouble .
11 I got into the rear seat and the colonel closed the door .
12 The cats knock the garbage cans over and last week someone got into the front hall and smashed the mirror and the door .
13 But the man who got into the front seat was Keith Hanger , an escaped prisoner wanted in connection with a murder .
14 ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League .
15 But you got into the Soviet Union and it 's difficult at first for me to get emotionally connected to the story .
16 Some more people came out of the house and got into the other car , and both cars drove away .
17 She got into the warm interior of the taxi , reeking of tobacco and ancient loves , and fell asleep at once .
18 McCallen had problems with the carburration and as a result he never really got into the final practice but unofficially he lapped at over 119 mph only three seconds behind the overall leader Carl Fogarty .
19 He got into the small boat in which he had reached the ship .
20 In an ecstasy of selfishness she got into the magic train .
21 The name comes from the old Norse word meaning ‘ to gush ’ and was not only given to the township nearby , but got into the English language as a descriptive name for any jet of water .
22 You went to college so you got into the Socialist Worker 's Party or whatever .
23 That to me was one of the most rewarding moments over and above when we got into the big game against New Zealand .
24 We all got into the covered cart and made our way off into the countryside .
25 The rapist got into the same carriage and followed her from Hillingdon station , Middx .
26 She got into the flat-bottomed boat and tried to push it away from the bank but the pole stuck in the mud and the boat was too heavy for her to move .
27 But when I actually erm got into the social work side of it , and i saw what the needs there were , erm and it was at the particular time too when you know , lots of teachers were sort of being made redundant , or at at least the er the numbers in schools were n't so high .
28 He seemed disappointed and I soon saw why when I got into the main hall .
29 The twelve people got into the little plane , and the plane began to move .
30 But in the days immediately after the General Election defeat , Mr Smith not only launched his bid but got into an impregnable position thanks to his support from the big unions .
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