Example sentences of "[adv] got [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Fenella remembered the thin , frayed legend of how the Earth-people , at one time in their history , had created a race of machines and how they had then created machines to run the machines and how it had all got out of hand . |
| 2 | We had no sooner got out of the supermarket 's doors than the wee imp said he was tired and I must carry him to the car . |
| 3 | Is it not time , though , to ask whether all this heady ferment over a mere conductor — Abbado or any other — has not got out of hand ? |
| 4 | Some perfect and well scarred nut slots protect a tricky move into the final groove , which is bridged pleasantly to the top , always assuming your rope drag has not got out of control . |
| 5 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 6 | The following morning , I 'd just got out of bed when he started barking to get out . |
| 7 | You 've only just got out of bed , |
| 8 | She shakes me gently by the hand and announces quietly , ‘ I 've just got out of the bath . ’ |
| 9 | Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've only just got out of bed . ’ |
| 11 | I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house . |
| 12 | So that 's just got out of WordPerfect . |
| 13 | Her hair was black and thick and looked tangled , as though she had just got out of bed and not brushed it . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd just got out of bed — I was half asleep , ’ she tried , without much conviction . |
| 15 | A young woman who had evidently just got out of the Mini was approaching . |
| 16 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 17 | The tale of L'Esquiriel goes on to tell of how the girl is approached by a young man playing with his erect penis ; she asks him what he has there — a squirrel , is the answer ; does she want it ? — yes please , let me hold it ; not yet , put your hand on it carefully ; it 's hot ! — ah , it 's just got out of its nest — and so on , until , after further euphemisms and foreplay , we return to the blunt world of crude speech as the squirrel enters the girl 's con to seek from her stomach the nuts she ate the day before . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've only just got out of it ! |
| 19 | A high powered Sierra was careering down a steep hill in Wotton under Edge.When the driver reached the bottom he lost control and ploughed into the women who 'd just got out of their parked cars . |
| 20 | you know , sometimes people , sort of , look as if they 've just got out of bed ! |
| 21 | Yeah but I was just got out of it , not very good at it . |
| 22 | they built , they built a well beaten aircraft and they have n't got half the technical advantages that the West has and their computers has still , practically just got out of the stage . |
| 23 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I think I 've rather got out of the habit of talking to people . ’ |
| 25 | All I 've ever got out of it are a few funny smells and the tap-tap of my father 's stick . |
| 26 | It was not clear whether the robber ever got out of the car or escaped with any of their valuables . |
| 27 | He flapped his warrant card in automatic greeting and waved a hand at Catherine who had also got out of the car . |
| 28 | She would run and hide as her parents ' altercations so often got out of hand with plates crashing and books thrown . |
| 29 | It did n't really happen overnight , I guess , but through the MainMan News , MainMan kind of mushroomed into this enormous spending machine that really got out of control and I think was a very destructive influence on everyone that was involved . ’ |
| 30 | He and Kenneth started conversing using no fewer than five-syllable words before he 'd even got out of the car , and have been rabbiting happily like two philatelists over a rare collection . |