Example sentences of "gets [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He fills it up , and cooks for himself , and when it gets down to a certain level then he thinks , ‘ now I might do a concert ’ .
2 As tread depth gets down to a certain level , the efficiency of the tyre reduces .
3 Olympia 's new ‘ Belorussian Series ’ gets off to a cracking start with a pair of discs , one featuring the music of Dmitry Smolsky ( ) , the other , Yevgeni Glebov ( ) .
4 SAGITTARIUS- THE year gets off to a cracking start for Sagittarians : The eclipse on December 9 , 1992 was the first of four to exert a powerful effect on your life — especially if your birthday falls between November 22 and December 11 .
5 That way , the conference gets off to a good start because people are raring to go and in the right frame of mind .
6 The book gets off to a good start and the first chapter is one of the most stimulating — though I do not necessarily agree with all of it .
7 Conversation gets off to a limp start .
8 The Third Sonata , with its echoes of the Third Concerto ( a work in which Gavrilov particularly excels ) , gets off to a blistering start indeed — the outer sections of this work allowing Gavrilov ample room to flex his very considerable technical muscles .
9 Short gets off to a bad start
10 Gilly gets off to a bad start in life by having a mother who deserts her when she is only three years old but her problems since then are all of her own making .
11 THE 1993 Historic Scotland Events Programme gets off to a dramatic start on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 May , with a major battle re-enactment by the Sealed Knot at Linlithgow Palace and Peel .
12 The evening gets off to a wobbly start , with Liz Robertson 's Maria belting out the title song on an artificial hillside which is anything but alive .
13 Flor gets off to an impressive start ; the terraced dynamics and tempi of the opening section are brooding and solid , with deep , ruminative phrasing from the Concertgebouw basses .
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