Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it get " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what it basically is , and whenever it gets too slick or too planned , we stop , in complete mid-stream if necessary , and just go back to being more primitive . |
| 2 | Having looked briefly at some of the background to anticipated grief and why it occurs we need to consider how it gets expressed when someone is expected to die . |
| 3 | Queer how it gets us , all women and no men , the way we let off steam , like being back at school again , lifting up people 's skirts in the cloakroom . |
| 4 | We asked James what he thought about his new job : ‘ Erm … like … you know … this gorgeous girlie was buying me drinks all night … like … you know how it gets … right ! … yeah … well … |
| 5 | The fruit has a long pointed protrusion , rather like a bird 's beak , and that 's how it gets the geranium name , meaning ‘ crane ’ . |
| 6 | you know how it gets rid of the Ts , it gets rid of everything it 's showing there |
| 7 | ‘ He won enough to set himself up in his own business , so if you see a ‘ Terimon Cafe ’ on the outskirts of London you 'll know how it got the name . ’ |
| 8 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 9 | Various fairly unscientific theories have been put forward over the years as to why and how it got there . |
| 10 | There will be a brief insight into the history of the company and how it got its name . |
| 11 | ‘ I can see how it got people 's backs up , ’ says Lesley . |
| 12 | Police have ‘ no idea ’ how it got there . |
| 13 | I do n't know how much Oliver 's told you about the Shakespeare School , but take it from me that place is tacky : how it got its registered status I shudder to think . |
| 14 | How it got its name is not a documented fact , but it is believed to have come about when the tailors of London congregated at the Haymarket Theatre to protest about a play called The Tailors : A Tragedy For Warm Weather . |
| 15 | ‘ Buried treasure ; and I think I know how it got there . ’ |
| 16 | I 've spent all these years thinking about it , wondering how it got in to that house . |
| 17 | A roman coin belonging to the fourth year of the reign of Diocletian , AD 287 , was found on an island in Finlaggan Loch and one wonders how it got there . |
| 18 | " I do n't know how it got its name , no , " replied the older boy smiling patiently , " but no doubt some book-reading bore is about to inform me . " |
| 19 | ‘ We shall treat this as a suspicious death ; there will be an autopsy and , of course , an investigation to discover the source of the poison and how it got into the brandy . ’ |
| 20 | And , and how it got the name Hole , was there 's supposed to be gold buried somewhere up there , but what quantity or anything about it I can not tell you . |
| 21 | So it was him who sh I think it got , how it got through to him . |
| 22 | This is an , a product of evolution , admittedly Freud uses a Lamarckian scenario to explain how it got there , but the fact is that Freud insisted on it . |
| 23 | But the story of how it got started is an odd one . |
| 24 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 25 | Yeah I reckon so I reckon that 's how it got outside on the floor ! |
| 26 | Do n't know how it got round cos it 's all over Emma 's books and Lisa 's right and they 're going , who 's Billy then ? |
| 27 | Cos it was due to sail on the same day , on the Sunday , you know what I mean and er it was these locks as I 'm telling you about and her a very , very famous firm and er my correspondence come from London because he had offices was there , you know and erm our erm I 've been at the service as I , if I might say so , but in most people it 's surprising how it get 's round and er the jobs that I 've had to do . |
| 28 | It lasted until 1924 , when it got blown up during the Irish civil war . |
| 29 | As a trans-Pyrenean kingdom , Navarre lasted from its foundation in the ninth century until the sixteenth century , when it got broken in two , Spanish Navarre becoming Spanish in 1512 while French or Basse-Navarre was incorporated into the French crown in 1589 , when its current king became king of France as Henri IV . |
| 30 | Sometimes when it got worn like that it would twine round the other soldier so that his head could be pulled off . |