`` I got no place to go ''.

I'm well aware that you've got a pedigree as long as my leg, and that I don't amount to anything.

`` Might get there faster walkin' '', Lord drawled, `` seein' as how I got a busted front spring.

`` I know you've got a grudge against me, and maybe I can't blame you.

I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.

`` And I sort o' got a corner on the market ''.

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

`` I've got her as neat as I can '', Donovan said, as he dropped the straps of the Seton harness over Greg's shoulders.

Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.

I got a coin between my thumb and forefinger, leaned my elbows in a very natural and casual manner on top of the truck cab and flipped my little missile.

I swam like mad, got out of the pool, grabbed my robe, and ran to the car.

There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.

He said hesitantly, `` Hettie, I don't figure your things got wet too much.

`` You think I got you and Artie and Herr Schaffner all the way out here just for the boat ride??

`` Yes, George, but I ain't got poor old Pat's body yet.

`` I got Margaret Rider in one of them old box cars down there by the quarry ''.

`` Hell, I jist got on top of -- ''

I left the party as soon as possible and got into a taxi.

So I got out.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

Much to Damon Runyon's amazement, as well as my own, I got along splendidly with the Hetman ; ;

As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.

I grant that the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with a dog??

She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.

Somehow managing to get out a cool, poised, `` Won't you hold on a second, please '', I covered up the mouthpiece, and with more warmth and less poise, gave a quick lecture on crime and punishment, mostly the latter, including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of Siberia.

There had been some coconut in it, for I remember my mother's taking a quick glance at a stringy bit of this nut on the cheek of one of them and then putting down her radish with a shiver.

Similarities to the approach which I have described are evident in the prompt establishment of a helping relationship, quick appraisal of key issues, and the immediate mobilization of treatment plans as the essential dynamics in helping to further the ego's coping efforts in dealing with the interplay of inner and outer stresses.

Then Charlie spooned out some quick impressions of the Nikita he had glimpsed: `` I was captivated by his humor, frankness and good nature and by his kind, strong and somewhat sly face ''.

I had never liked snakes much, I still had that kind of quick panic that I'd had as a child whenever I saw one, but this snake was clean and bright and very beautiful.

With his quick wits and the assistance of drunken gunslinger Jim ( Gene Wilder ), also known as " The Waco Kid " (" I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille "), Bart works to overcome the townsfolk's hostile reception.

A third example that mixes the two effects comes from I. 42, where Juno pouts that Athena was allowed to use Jove's thunderbolts to destroy Ajax (" she hurled Jove's quick fire from the clouds "):

I had to make a quick decision.

Louis XIV had hoped that a show of force would lead to a quick resolution to his dynastic and territorial disputes with the princes of the Empire along his eastern border, but his intimidatory moves only strengthened German resolve, and in May 1689 Leopold I and the Dutch signed an offensive compact aimed at repelling French aggression.

This left me in command of the regiment, of which I was very glad, for such experience as we had had is a quick teacher.

Earlier, Johann Strauss I and Josef Lanner wrote polkas which are either designated as a galop ( quick tempo ) or as a regular polka which may not fall into any of the categories described above.

Spacey was surprised ; he said, " I usually play characters who are very quick, very manipulative and smart ...

Despite this, Clouseau does appear to show some awareness that he is not the most competent or intelligent person, as he is notably embarrassed by and quick to brush aside his more extreme acts of clumsiness with phrases such as " I know that ", and attempts to appear elegant and refined regardless of what calamity he has just caused.

I did some quick thinking.

I don't know if he auditioned other people, but it was very quick.

She imagines that " the quick comedians / Extemporally will stage us, and present / Our Alexandrian revels: Antony / Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see / Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness / I ' th ' posture of a whore.

For example, the phrase much quicker than I is based on the adjective ' quick ', and the phrase fond of animals is based on the adjective ' fond '.

Such phrases may be used predicatively, as in They are much quicker than I (≈ they are quick ) or they are fond of animals (≈ they are fond ).