Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] get " in BNC.

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1 It was by chance and with the support of a visiting teacher of drawing who also happened to be a lecturer at Goldsmiths College that I succeeded in getting a place at art school , the first and last totally blind student to have ever done so in Britain .
2 I was lucky : I succeeded in getting ticks .
3 I 'll go in with them and see what I got ta get and just strap it on the roof .
4 I got ta get some more
5 I got ta get thi
6 I got ta get one Ann .
7 yeah all I got ta get is my fruit and veg .
8 And Laura 's I got ta get , I have n't got Laura 's yet .
9 So I got ta get your birthday present now .
10 I got ta get your dinner .
11 Cos I got ta get booze and food and all that stuff in .
12 The first thing I noticed on getting into the ground was that the Leeds fans were making most , no , all of the noise in the ground .
13 I exercised all the patience I could muster , trying every trick I knew of to get a performance out of Monty .
14 Maxwell 's voice was rather high-pitched and soft , but despite this he spoke with the authority of someone accustomed to getting his own way .
15 Cos I thought about getting a glass and sitting here with glass at the front door !
16 For a moment I thought of getting on my joke transport and heading back to the East Oxford slums where I belonged .
17 I 've probably finished what little chance I had of getting out of here in one piece .
18 ‘ Whatever chance I had of getting him has gone because of the incredible publicity .
19 There were moments when I wondered about getting out from its clutches alive .
20 That left her free to play at being married which consisted of getting herself done up to the nines and visiting her friends all day , now and again taking the baby , all nice and clean , out in her pram .
21 It was a man wearing an overcoat pulled high around his neck who succeeded in getting the chance to speak as Gerrard thrust the microphone at him .
22 The evident ascendancy of conservatives , who succeeded in getting one of their number elected as leader of the new party , appeared to bode ill for President Mikhail Gorbachev , the CPSU general secretary , at the crucial 28th CPSU congress , due to open only a fortnight later .
23 you got ta get it somewhere like that have n't you .
24 I said to you you got ta get these Christmas presents wrapped up for the party .
25 Oh yeah you got ta get erm
26 You got ta get into the rocking mood and you
27 Well cos , you got ta get in early cos everybody else is sort of erm
28 So you got ta get away and underneath and I have n't got the rer rer the socket spanners that would do it , so well I have n't got a spanner let alone a socket ones that would do it !
29 Two , three why you got ta get some money before we go up there then ?
30 All you got ta do , you got ta get from there to there to there and the one who gets there and gets a hundred thousand or whatever it is in n it ?
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