Example sentences of "[modal v] get very " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must get very discouraged . |
| 2 | However , the singularity theorems discussed earlier indicate that the gravitational field should get very strong in at least two situations , black holes and the big bang . |
| 3 | ‘ They might get very angry . |
| 4 | So the issue becomes : How do we help a giant who is poorly , but who might get very angry with us if we annoy him ? |
| 5 | and they 'll get very worried , and it 's quite a difficult area because you have to be on the look out for something that 's not right , but you do n't want people to get er very worried because those feet are going to be very mobile and doing non walking thing until the child walks , they 're also very fat and podgy are n't they little babies ' feet ? |
| 6 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 7 | They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption . |
| 8 | Cos we 'll you 'll get very busy . |
| 9 | Colleague Roseanne Boyle , communications co-ordinator , said : ‘ He was very chatty and inquisitive about everything , but occasionally he 'd get very wide-eyed about all the attention and duck behind his mother 's legs , just like any other four-year-old . ’ |
| 10 | He 'd get very wild those times , like he was making up for something . |
| 11 | and you 'd get very sad and it would hurt a lot . |
| 12 | From here on in , things could get very serious . |
| 13 | No joke , he said , upset neighbours could get very ratty . |
| 14 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 15 | On this assumption , a Cambridge don , John Michell , wrote a paper in 1783 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in which he pointed out that a star that was sufficiently massive and compact would have such a strong gravitational field that light could not escape : any light emitted from the surface of the star would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational attraction before it could get very far . |
| 16 | Having solved the problems of the Conservative Party , I mean we , we could get very good at this are n't we ? |
| 17 | I used to get very sentimental during my period with the Territorial Army about the exploits of the British Parachute Regiment , despite the fact that my sole contribution to their reputation had been made in Aldershot discos . |
| 18 | The women used to get very depressed and there were always debts . |
| 19 | I was having Rob and Jen at the same time , and I used to get very wrapped up in myself when I was pregnant , you know — just not interested in things like sisters-in-law . |
| 20 | I could n't walk until he was born , I had very high blood pressure and I used to get very bad swollen ankles . |
| 21 | Where I was stretching I used to itch all over and I used to get very upset . |
| 22 | And we used to get very worked up about it , and then we went down to fetch our wages , and the older ones were always going to complain , but this erm tt er son of the people , he used to look at the factory clock opposite , and it would be half past three , and he 'd said , Right , I 'll pay you till three o'clock , and we 'll make it right next week . |
| 23 | The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know . |
| 24 | But they used to get very lonely . |
| 25 | I mean , I can well recall in my own analysis with , of course , for the first six months she said nothing , and I used to get very frustrated , and say , look , what do you think of this ? |
| 26 | Did he used to get very tired at his work ? |
| 27 | But this would get very boring if used too often . |
| 28 | Basil would get very excited at finding tadpoles and caddis worms in the Hampstead ponds but though he once took to fishing in a small stream when we were on holiday , and actually caught a small fish , which Marion cooked for his tea , he was quite unable to eat it , being stricken with remorse at its demise . |
| 29 | The Dodger and Charley Bates went out to work every day , but sometimes came home with no handkerchieves , and Fagin would get very angry . |
| 30 | But you know , when if if a a clutch of erm young people were together , standing outside , she would get very frightened about it . |