Example sentences of "[modal v] get so " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went on to talk to children in the refuge creche and to ask the helpers if they managed to leave work problems behind when they returned home in the evening — ‘ otherwise , it must get so depressing for you . ’ |
| 2 | He must , he must get so pissed off with that must n't he ? |
| 3 | It was odd that the party should get so quiet . |
| 4 | She should get so lucky . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't understand why you should get so wound up about the prospect of making love now , when before you were … offhand about it . ’ |
| 6 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 7 | ‘ You could have told your men to try and make life difficult for me , in the hope that eventually I 'll get so fed up that I 'll accept your offer . |
| 8 | ‘ What would you do if you were going with someone and you liked them but you did n't love them or anything but you were only really going with them because if you did n't you 'd get so much heat … ’ |
| 9 | Yeah she 'd get so she starts running when she see 's you otherwise would n't she . |
| 10 | I often thought it was a pointless exercise , but , as he said , ‘ If you do n't ask , you do n't get ’ , and he hoped that eventually they 'd get so fed up with him that they 'd deliver . |
| 11 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 12 | He 'd tell me things there , and I 'd get so excited about whatever he said was going to happen , and half the time he 'd just made it up . ’ |
| 13 | And you must n't have outside bells , must n't have outside bells here because you 'd you 'd get so much opposition from those people |
| 14 | It 's as much as I could get so quickly . |
| 15 | And you could get so many in on the thing . |
| 16 | I used to get so tired , she would hold up my black practice pants around the waist , hoist me up and down saying ‘ On yer balls , Girl , on yer balls . |
| 17 | There was one teacher who used to get so mad that she would throw slates around , with the whole class ducking out of the way . |
| 18 | I used to get so angry on the set that one day I just blew my top and hit John Huston . |
| 19 | My father used to get so angry at her stubbornness — not at all like me , used to doing what I was told . ’ |
| 20 | I used to get so cross with her . |
| 21 | Er one of the members of staff of the Leiston Grammar School , a chap named Johnny erm , was in charge of his trainees and erm there again erm Arthur and our section became responsible for erm all this in-service training for er , er women mainly because the men of course had joined up and erm the used to come in quite often and er he got , used to get so upset because he could n't erm , he got at cross purposes with some of these ladies |
| 22 | Oh yes , yes , they even had like they used to have savings ' weeks er salute the soldier week , they used to have promotions for National Savings you see and we used to get so much money or where they had a bid thermometer on the car park in Street which is now the extension of the Gala Baths and they used to show how much savings had been put in they used to have targets for people , to put the National Savings in , they used to have an Anglo-American friendship week . |
| 23 | and they used to get so many |
| 24 | friend Charlie and er my dad used to get so cross with me ! |
| 25 | Willses have always advocated religious education and study in schools and colleges , believing , like the first Duke of Wellington , that if education is separated from religion ‘ you would get so many clever devils ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ As I work with the prints all day I would get so bored if I wore them as well , ’ she once told an American interviewer , who expressed surprise to find her in such plain clothes . |
| 27 | No I think it was just , certainly Tom tried to lift us or because over the winter months when nothing was happening negotiations-wise , you know he knew if he did n't lift us then nothing would and everyone would get so disheartened they 'd just say oh sod it and back to work or forget it and what have you . |
| 28 | Wrangham thinks that where there are no secondary resources , competition for the main resource may get so high that solitary feeding becomes essential . |
| 29 | Burdened by the fear that some ‘ performance ’ , of which they feel incapable , is expected , and therefore that their ‘ manliness ’ is threatened , they may get so miserable and anxious that they realise their worst fears , by becoming unable to have an erection and then hiding behind the idea that ‘ I 'm an old man now , so what can I expect ? ’ |
| 30 | Soon it will get so we will not want to be out there at all . ’ |