Example sentences of "[adj] get very " in BNC.

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1 I could see this getting very nasty very quickly
2 and this gets very hot , well fairly hot
3 A few modifications have been made to it to accommodate foreign words but , generally speaking , it is the words rather than the syllabary that get modified and some get very thoroughly modified indeed .
4 But some get very depressed .
5 It is clear from these examples that and on the one hand and and on the other were not , or came not to be , co-extensive , the former pair being , or becoming , confined to specific grades of medreses , the latter retaining , or developing , a wider geographical significance whose Importance is not altogether clear beyond the fact that it was impossible to get very far in the hierarchy without having taught in the .
6 But she knew that she would hardly be likely to get very far with her allegations .
7 Let's face it kids , you ai n't likely to get very excited by a badly digitised , flickery screenshot .
8 That gets very difficult .
9 Indeed , when AMV was forced to lay off staff for the first time in 1991 , because of duplication during the BBDO merger , all got very generous payments .
10 ‘ We all got very tired towards the end of the year .
11 So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time .
12 Fortunately it did n't rain , otherwise they would 've all got very wet .
13 ‘ But we all get very busy around here this time in the season .
14 ‘ Shall we all get very drunk ? ’ suggested Lili .
15 Arguments that balconies and swimming pools pose dangers for children are unlikely to get very far .
16 Wild swans are very shy so you probably wo n't be able to get very close to them .
17 But I can not resist mentioning two or three examples which are very well documented and which I believe in personally ( one gets very sceptical about other people 's records in palaeontology ) .
18 According to one senior management informant in RENFE , ‘ the company could not in general make an offer for increased wages and salaries without first getting very direct approval from the government ’ ; labour relations managers recalled urgent telephone calls from the minister in the early hours of the morning to determine the wage offer .
19 It was possible to get very cheap treasures from Messrs Foyles in the Charing Cross Road , even on a Saturday afternoon , so we went thither .
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