Example sentences of "get so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just got so scared , you know , I 'm sorry , I … ’ |
| 2 | The four-year-old has always been highly strung and Hiner added : ‘ He got so worked up that the French vets could n't examine him . ’ |
| 3 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 4 | They got so much satisfaction from helping the Association , in fact , that as this photo shows , they signed application forms for Life Membership ! |
| 5 | Finally he got so used to me calling that he asked me to come down and give them a hand fixing it up . |
| 6 | He got so embarrassed he turned round and scuttled out . |
| 7 | He got so paranoid he decided to leg it . |
| 8 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 9 | It got so bad we had to do the full old lady bit and put up net curtains . |
| 10 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 11 | His ten-year-old son got so frightened he ran and called the police . |
| 12 | But I never forgot the name McCloy and when Charlie got so cocky in the pub I thought I 'd needle him a bit . |
| 13 | And when I pretended to be a horse I got so excited I bumped into this litter bin and fell over . |
| 14 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 15 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |
| 16 | The bird got so attached to her that it would take food from between her lips . |
| 17 | It did n't matter to her whether he kept it on or not , though she did not particularly like to see how his stump got so chafed and swollen . |
| 18 | What he could not understand , he said , was how this idea got so muddled up with hostages and the necessity to sell arms . |
| 19 | Then I got so that I could not be bothered . |
| 20 | ‘ But she got so thin … |
| 21 | He could not be bothered to read anything longer than a single sheet of paper , and even that with great difficulty , and got so bored when any detail was explained to him that he often fell asleep . |
| 22 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 23 | ‘ You know this Prowler Blanche Glover got so worried about ? |
| 24 | The phrasing got so slow and emphatic that you knew that she wanted you to listen to and weigh up every single word ; but you could n't tell if each word was freighted with anger , or bitterness , or joy ; it just came out with great , quiet force , and you had to work out its tone for yourself . |
| 25 | I got so bad I could n't do it so I gave up . |
| 26 | On one occasion they got so swollen headed that they were charging the children a penny each to try on their hats . |
| 27 | Now he told me , that night we got so drunk , that it was because of you that it had n't happened . |
| 28 | My feet got so hot and sweaty I took my trainers and socks off and walked along in my bare feet till I saw a traffic warden looking at me as if she 'd get me arrested . |
| 29 | ‘ Not really , because it got so much bigger than we wanted it to straight away . |
| 30 | ‘ I think he really enjoyed the first few , then the stories and the music got so trite , but he 'd go ahead and do them . |