Example sentences of "[adv] got [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven years later , however , Christien has not only got over the pain but has used the experience to make him a better actor . |
| 2 | dear oh dear , and she said to me well they can get these crook locks , they 've only got to a , they 've only got to bend the steering wheel , I said will |
| 3 | ‘ I 've only got to the end of the year but my family will be carrying on where I left off . |
| 4 | Economics ( and the fear of being bored witless for the third time in 10 days ) demanded that I , and my son , only got to the first two matches and watched from the Kop . |
| 5 | Yeah , well I mean if you 've only got to the one machine you do n't need two boards necessarily do you ? |
| 6 | There 's another item of news , which erm , er Ron only got on the sixteenth August and it 's about the pre-congress pensioner 's march and rally , now the congress is held in Glasgow , so I think we were n't going to that one anyway , but it just giving details of erm the arrangements for the pensioner 's march which we usually have , we usually attend if it 's in the South anywhere , but that 's just for information . |
| 7 | Then John Gielgud opened in a Barrie play , but he had only got into the third act when the siren went . |
| 8 | I 've only got to bloody si , I 've only got about the same . |
| 9 | and erm , she said oh well you know , were gon na try , and then , and then , I said well what about Elly she said , well she , she , I said swop with Elly , but she 's only got like a two bedroom |
| 10 | at party yeah I was in the toilet yeah and this bloke comes in and goes oh and I 'd only got like a hit 's worth left |
| 11 | and like the thing is obviously like the first realise there on a and they try to stop it , why are you stopping for , remember you are in the British army , if you disobey orders you 'll get a court marshall really started laying onto them , and like they 've started again and like the first bloke obviously got to the fucking water , cos he 's stopped again , one man one sides shouting out and round the other side shouting out and they have they 've all gone in , they must of thought fuck it and they 've all just fucking marched into the sea , and we marched them in , tent was only about that much above water , and we 've lasted thought , this is the thing that got me , he , he shouted at him , cos we , we , we managed to get them and that , he said right , right , go in , go in and tell them to come out , what , I said what , can you just pop in and tell them to come out , I said over here sarge , he said you disobey an order |
| 12 | Blinking politely at the assembled masses hanging on his every syllable , the poodle-headed astronomer and Friend Of Freddie swiftly got to the point of his keynote address to the CMJ Music Marathon . |
| 13 | They 'd all got off the bus together ; this one had gone into a truckers ’ cafe for cigarettes and a carton of coffee . |
| 14 | Business chose women who had already got to the top in their careers , or were high-calibre middle managers still on their way up . |
| 15 | Robyn had somehow got into the position of cooking dinner , not wanting to admit that the simple process of preparing and cooking a meal for Luke filled her with dread . |
| 16 | No , he 's just got into a habit , you know . |
| 17 | Andrea Godfrey , 25 , who comes from Darlington and works for a London-based advertising agency , said : ‘ I had just got on the train when I heard this tremendous bang . |
| 18 | After all , they reasoned , if this was 2.30 in Glasgow , they would have only just got to a club , ready for a full night 's dancing and drinking till the almost daylight hour of 5.30am . |
| 19 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 20 | There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading . |
| 21 | I had just got to the tricky bit when in walked this friend with the usual enquiries . |
| 22 | I apologise for the delay in replying , but I have only just got to the bottom of my ‘ in tray ’ after months of chasing deadlines ! |
| 23 | They had just got to the part about Dora 's Naughty Friend . |
| 24 | He walked slowly back to his gallery-duties , by this time in the afternoon virtually non-existent — and had just got to the top of the stairs when he saw Gooseneck advancing towards him carrying a large package . |
| 25 | ‘ We were singing There was a Princess Long Ago and had just got to the last verse , ‘ Now everybody 's happy now ’ , when the headmistress came in and said the King had died . |
| 26 | I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’ |
| 27 | You have another country along that coast , Nigeria , which has just got to the stage where it 's got through its forest and it 's not exporting anything at all , if anything it 's importing . |
| 28 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 29 | But you 've just got off a plane . ’ |
| 30 | The teenager , from Druminally Road in the town , had just got off a bus when the accident happened at 4.30pm . |