Example sentences of "[adj] get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm steaming , are n't you ? ’ till that got boring , then tried ‘ Lads who wear after-shave are crap , are n't they ? ’ or ‘ Why do Americans all wear plastic raincoats ? ’ |
| 2 | That got some cheap laughs . |
| 3 | We each got six khaki shirts and pants , one belt , one knife with knuckle-duster handle , socks and sets of underwear and a lightweight stetson . |
| 4 | At first , each gearbox only started rattling with a warmed up engine but each got worse until the rattle could be heard with a cold engine on revving up when stationary . |
| 5 | The Australians scored five tries , Tim Horan and Paul Carozza each got two and John Eales one . |
| 6 | Patrick made sure the porter and the bell-boy each got another packet of Kent King Size . |
| 7 | ‘ Sorry we 're a bit late , but Junior got tired , and this nice gentleman offered to carry him here . ’ |
| 8 | Sorry got some money in there , OK oh do your ballerina bit , we 'll have to wash your face , yeah it 's filthy , filthy face , breakfast face oh that 's that new twins is n't it ? |
| 9 | It 's an income redistribution to make up for 12 years of Reagan and Bush in which the rich got richer and the poor got poorer . |
| 10 | I found that most parents were initially rather shocked at finding out their daughter was pregnant , some cried , some got angry , some were very matter-of-fact , and some were quite pleased . |
| 11 | Well what has this got that 's attached in here , eh ? |
| 12 | Got this got this quote , right , from the other garage |
| 13 | Sorry , we should n't have the committee meeting now , Richard I know has some got some interesting ideas . |
| 14 | Well I was talking to him about it , I said I reckon you 've spent the you 've spent quite a bit now so you might as well just go another get final . |
| 15 | Perhaps the logical extension of this getting undressed for success in this month 's Playboy , in which Sandra 's regular photographer Michel Comte pictures her in various states of undress ‘ with women , with men — nothing very raunchy . |
| 16 | Every single word of recitative is included ( with a spasmodic fortepiano accompaniment that takes some getting used to ) , and all six characters are delineated with exceptional vividness . |
| 17 | He admits , though , that moving the baton in three dimensions does take some getting used to . |
| 18 | ‘ It takes some getting used to , ’ said the Dane . |
| 19 | The particularly uncompromising , raw sound of the Jaeckel organ at the Salem Lutheran Church in Wausau may take some getting used to . |
| 20 | It was clean , relatively well-furnished , and only a minute from the Gare du Nord , although the purple palm tree wallpaper took some getting used to . |
| 21 | This takes some getting used to , but claustrophobic fingertips need not concern themselves unduly , as the feeling is dispelled immediately upon picking up the guitar . |
| 22 | The actual point of this transition depends on several factors and it is this change of response which takes some getting used to , particularly for those with lots of fixed-wing experience . |
| 23 | Of course this will take some getting used to and the referees will have to work hard to be consistent . |
| 24 | It 's all very different and will take some getting used to . |
| 25 | If you are used to the low rectangular shape of most best sanders , the bizarre profile of the BD75E take some getting used to . |
| 26 | Electric shavers are fast , convenient and safe , although some users find dry shaving takes some getting used to . |
| 27 | They can take some getting used to and a bit of furtive fumbling is to be expected on the first few occasions . |
| 28 | It took some getting used to the idea that Gentiles were fellow-heirs in God 's kingdom , brothers and sisters in the same family , for there was a great deal of prejudice against the Gentiles . |
| 29 | However , even he admitted that the condition took some getting used to in his speech at the reception . |
| 30 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |