Example sentences of "[adv] got " in BNC.
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| 1 | One grey-haired captain , a rough old chap , sat and sat not saying a word , mute as a mackerel , then suddenly got up in the middle of the room ad , you know , said aloud as if speaking to himself , ‘ If there 's no God then what sort of a Captain am I after that ? ’ , ad seized his cap and threw up his arms and went out . |
| 2 | ‘ Yeah — Mum , I told you , did n't I — ’ Cal suddenly got excited — ‘ it 's because Bina 's not allowing herself to be what she ought to be ! |
| 3 | McIlvanney therefore was ideally placed to reflect the changing relationship between sport and society , bringing an invigorating attitude an new , direct style of writing to bear , as ‘ play ’ suddenly got serious . |
| 4 | ‘ Such hard luck on him — to find he 'd suddenly got a wife who was all the things he loathes — hysterical , difficult , clinging … |
| 5 | The person started to read their paper on Moses , and I thought she was doing a good job of it , this guy suddenly got up and said , I 'm Jewish , I 'm not listening to any more of this , and stormed out . |
| 6 | The outside world has suddenly got a foothold here . |
| 7 | Well if they can afford to buy in help and to sort their life out , you 've suddenly got a product that they really want to buy . |
| 8 | There was something in his voice that suddenly got through to her , and she felt a little tendril of pleasure unwinding inside . |
| 9 | I mean it has been my life , and it 's obviously the most enormous wrench when you 've suddenly got to do something entirely different . |
| 10 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 11 | Well I mean if you er , if your chain was going too far astern you might pull the dredger astern too much so got ta keep your chain up the river , that 's what you go got to do all the time . |
| 12 | Er and the their U D P's just on deposit so got to go into it in a bit more detail yet . |
| 13 | Going out to the battlefields , Olid Edis wanted some mark of her identity and so got a badge ‘ NWM ’ which she put on a cap . |
| 14 | Europe ? well we could beat about the bush but there 's not a single rep on the road that ever gets out the office so got ta win it cos I actually saw I actually we I actually saw her go out and see a customer so she must she must be er |
| 15 | Can you see , that ball weighs about a pound , so got ta be able |
| 16 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 17 | Yeah , so got ta do like ju just shorts and a T-shirt to match , and a short and top . |
| 18 | No , and I were filling me thing out she says oh fill that one out an' all , so got thirty pence off |
| 19 | Particularly where you 've more or less got the idea of it but you think you just want to sort of tidy up a few details an |
| 20 | they 're always go they 're always about that far away the less got ta swerve out to avoid . |
| 21 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 22 | Whether the parents planted a cedar tree in honour of the occasion , as another custom dictated ( girls only got a pine tree ! ) we do not know , but we can rest assured that the salutation-prayer was made with particular relish for this first son of a first son : ‘ A boy is born into the world ; a blessing has come into the world . ’ |
| 23 | For us , the traverse to the Fish niche required a linked series of skyhook moves ( which is n't easy when you 've only got one ) . |
| 24 | To do the task requires X amount of pounds , but you 've only got X minus something . |
| 25 | That means you 've not only got to economise in manpower ; you 've got to bring new technology to bear on the problem . |
| 26 | You 've only got to look around you . ’ |
| 27 | He 'd only got to be told by Charlie that he 'd be leaving the High Street by the bridge and walking along the local river . ’ |
| 28 | She 's only got two suitcases , so she had to leave a lot of stuff behind — like her tailor 's dummy and all the furniture . |
| 29 | I sought my tutor in his arid rooms , Who told me , ‘ You 'd have only got a third . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've only got to look twice at someone , ’ he said in desperation , ‘ and the next morning I 'm engaged to her . ’ |