Example sentences of "[prep] get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawford 's character , Harry England , had to be seen driving a forty-year-old Rolls-Royce convertible into the ten-feet-deep swimming pool of a château above Cannes after getting drunk . |
| 2 | A PENSIONER caused havoc after getting lost and driving the wrong way up a motorway . |
| 3 | AMERICAN vice president-elect Al Gore and wife Tipper had to be rescued by secret service agents after getting lost on a weekend hike . |
| 4 | Some had nowhere to live apart from crowded dormitory rooms , even after getting married . |
| 5 | In a fine example of the above , Bellamy recalls an incident at Queens Club in 1972 when Gonzalez , then 42 , was disqualified after getting upset with a linesman . |
| 6 | MCI Communications Corp is now shipping the GEC-Marconi Ltd VideoPhone for $1,500 the pair after getting Federal Communications Commission approval for the device , which is being sold here in the UK , in Japan , Singapore and Germany . |
| 7 | A MOTHER fell to her death in front of her three children after getting locked out of their flat , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 8 | ‘ I — I suppose Claudine was disappointed after getting ready to go , ’ Jenna stammered . |
| 9 | ( They all arrived together at Fontanellato the following week , after getting stuck in some military censor 's office . ) |
| 10 | TWO anglers were winched to safety by RAF helicopter yesterday after getting cut off by the tide at Severn Beach , Avon . |
| 11 | The Pope 's got more chance of gettin' pregnant than I 'ave of gettin' into the charts . |
| 12 | Oh yeah , by the Shrimp I could of got pregnant ! |
| 13 | Cara smiled , and confided , ‘ Actually , I was wondering what I was going to do with myself the four weeks he 's away — I 've sort of got used to having him around , ’ she tossed in , as if uncaring , when they all knew differently . |
| 14 | you know I think I would of got used to it |
| 15 | Yeah , and then Brian 's sort of got gingery tints in his hair , but my dad 's still brown . |
| 16 | And er but er we got to know them eventually , but for the first few weeks , whilst we were in Devon , I think the five foreigners sort of got landed . |
| 17 | Now what I ca n't explain why , is that he starts with thirty two , now whether he sort of gets muddled up with the sort of the system of something I do n't know , but for some reason best known to himself , he starts with thirty two , and the continuum goes up to a hundred and sixty . |
| 18 | He sticks his tongue a lot when he 's sort of gets excited or he 's doing something . |
| 19 | — and I pull at it and it — sort of gets stiff — |
| 20 | If you do n't make a will , you lose the chance of getting unbiased independent advice on your general financial position from your solicitor . |
| 21 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself … |
| 22 | The state-funded National Consumer Council said : ‘ If these legal reforms go through , ordinary people in England and Wales will stand a much better chance of getting real justice . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I think there is a real prospect of getting major changes to this bill , ’ he added . |
| 24 | At this stage , Browns Lane has not given up hope of getting rear seats into the convertible , but it is proving a hard task , and it is probably that only the coupe will be a two-plus-two . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been using a Les Paul Gold Top for a long time — a ‘ 59 reissue with P-90s — but I 've got this unfortunate habit of getting pissed off onstage and tossing the odd guitar , so rather than risk the Gold Top any more I 've bought one of these new Hamers , which is styled after a '50s Les Paul Special . |
| 26 | I was out with erm an nephew la last night and I mean it was n't icy but it was sort of getting late and it was cold . |
| 27 | First we can try to dismantle the secondary problem of getting anxious about anxiety , or worrying about symptoms . |
| 28 | Instead of getting hysterical over the remote possibility of gutter-level heroin addiction , we have to contemplate something almost as hard and much more likely — that our children will sample what 's available and live to tell the tale . |
| 29 | At the beginning of October , the State Education Commission issued a statement calling on all provincial education departments and universities under its jurisdiction to forbid students to ‘ engage in business on or off campus for the purpose of getting rich ’ ( CD 7. 10. 1988 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ You stand as much chance of getting rich with that stuff , ’ she 'd say , ‘ as I do scrubbing floors at the Liver Buildings . ’ |