Example sentences of "[adv] get [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Materials were collected in advance and stored in anticipation of their use ; powder slowly got cheaper in the course of the fifteenth century ; while many towns employed one or more men to supervise the effective use of artillery in case of attack . |
| 2 | He was aware of his fastidiousness in his living habits and his health concerns which only got worse and worse . |
| 3 | But as time dragged on and I obviously got worse , I suppose my friends decided to take action . |
| 4 | In polar regions , as the heat is lost to the atmosphere the surface water naturally gets denser and it sinks and it spreads at some level in the ocean into the rest of the world ocean . |
| 5 | In fact , however complex a group 's structure , and however far-flung its subsidiaries , putting the consolidation together gets easier all the time . |
| 6 | However , this is something to watch for because , unless sorted , this kind of problem on a guitar only gets worse . |
| 7 | We push his legs but they buckle at the knees , so we have to hold them up above our heads as we push to make them stay straight , then as we shove and his trousers are rolled down by the rim of stone , his arms flop over the far side of the shaft rim and it suddenly gets easier to push him . |
| 8 | Or they start bad and merely get better . |
| 9 | It does n't sound much but you 've got to watch out these days , with everything constantly getting cheaper and Tod grimly counting his money the whole time . |
| 10 | The ‘ acquis communautaire ’ — the powers that the Community has won — can only get bigger . |
| 11 | ‘ Mummy 's arthritis can only get worse . |
| 12 | I ca n't help thinking things will only get worse when I have the baby . |
| 13 | With unemployment and general economic disarray on the rise , the feeling in the city is that things can only get worse . |
| 14 | It could only get worse for poor Mr Collins as room and meal materialised , but at least he acknowledged of the Cornish in general that they had , ‘ no propensity to jeer at strangers ’ . |
| 15 | This situation is putting you under a lot of strain , and things will only get worse if you do n't act now . |
| 16 | The move will add to the em-barrassment and humiliation heaped on Mr Lamont in recent weeks , and it will only get worse . |
| 17 | The 29-year-old Widnes maestro was forced to pull out of Great Britain 's tour of Australasia in the summer because of a persistent groin strain and said : ‘ I feel the injury can only get worse over the next couple of months . ’ . |
| 18 | Once parents start to try and rationalize the situation , over-compensate or feel guilty about their children not liking each other , the situation will only get worse . |
| 19 | It is a vile and despicable trade as any horse lover knows and unless something is decided about the minimum value law soon , by 1992 it will only get worse . |
| 20 | So once a person becomes unconscious , remember they 've got to go to hospital because they can only get worse , right , there is n't any , enough sugar in that body to , to be able to work properly so they 'll only get worse . |
| 21 | So once a person becomes unconscious , remember they 've got to go to hospital because they can only get worse , right , there is n't any , enough sugar in that body to , to be able to work properly so they 'll only get worse . |
| 22 | She fears Swindon 's housing problems can only get worse . |
| 23 | What is clear , however , is that the problems facing the water industry are their most difficult yet and that unless some action is taken , the problems can only get worse . |
| 24 | After yesterday 's announcement of huge cuts in the defence budget , things can only get worse . |
| 25 | It can only get worse as the long Winter stretches ahead . |
| 26 | Things can only get worse then . |
| 27 | Otherwise it 'll only get worse . |
| 28 | Well that sort of problem will only get worse |
| 29 | With the developments in fibre optics and the explosion in the use of services such as transcontinental video conferences , the competition can only get stiffer . |
| 30 | In theory , things can only get better ; in practice , they may well become a lot worse before Wasps return in the league next March . |