Example sentences of "gets [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sunlight is strong and as the water gets nearer the bright blue of the sky has less and less effect on the colours of the gravel bed and waving weeds until at the bottom of the picture you can see straight down into the clear water . |
| 2 | Having one wing down may result in a light glider being blown over if the wind changes direction and gets underneath the raised wing . |
| 3 | And it 's an anaerobic condition that gets into the nervous system and causes nerve paralysis in such a way that you get acute muscular contractions . |
| 4 | Making the appropriate product and ensuring it gets into the right hands are clearly critical elements in developing the market for older consumers . |
| 5 | Paul Gascoigne turns in another dazzling performance , this time as Santa Claus , as he gets into the festive spirit to wish all TODAY readers a very merry Christmas . |
| 6 | But then if you did it at the stage before , before it gets into the Scottish Theatre Guide you can then make your dates available or you can agree your dates and you can get publicity and that at home . |
| 7 | ‘ If Noriega gets into the northern redoubts , there are caches of arms and ammunition and he will have access to his bank accounts . |
| 8 | Yeah I mean I think you 're pretty good on those , you know about alternative sources of energy and you 've got a pretty good idea of nuclear power , what it 's about erm you know half life erm Then this gets onto the technical bit . |
| 9 | Well when he gets in the right places he 's only been doing schools and you know ? |
| 10 | With silver-plated cutlery , part of its appeal is the scratches it gets in the early period of its life . |
| 11 | The point is this , after a general election the party that 's won , it 's share of the vote in the most , in , in the , in the opinion poll taken most immediately after the election it goes up , it 's higher than actually what it gets in the general election . |
| 12 | Then she gets in the back bedroom , we got a mirror at the back there what was took off one the dressing tables , and she sits and looks at herself in there and she keeps going like that |
| 13 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 14 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 15 | MARS gets in the festive mood with its Christmas 1992 collection . |
| 16 | I think once that sort of phrase gets within the public domain then it would be very difficult to shift that er in the future . |
| 17 | Some seeds of rheophytic plants are fish-dispersed and fish dispersal gets round the perennial problem of how plants can move ‘ upstream ’ . |
| 18 | The impression one gets from the various accounts , however , is of a remarkable uniformity of depth from some writers , and of far less uniformity from others . |
| 19 | Figure 15–8 shows the marginal benefit MB that your neighbour gets from the last inch of tree size and the marginal cost MC to you of that last inch of tree size . |
| 20 | This is his favourite event , together with the Open — an event where he is as surprised as he is flattered by the support he gets from the British public . |
| 21 | ‘ And Feargal said he would be down there that day , and I said — you know how you do — if you happen to see a dark green Morris Minor driven by this astonishingly beautiful girl with cropped dark hair , would you make sure she gets on the right road ? |
| 22 | Mr Milburn said : ‘ These figures show how long a patient waits before he even gets on the official waiting list . ’ |
| 23 | The first time your little bit of news gets on the Six o'clock News or your client is a member of a panel discussion , you will have arrived professionally . |
| 24 | This time our hero Kevin ( Culkin ) gets on the wrong plane as he and his family set out for a Christmas break in Miami . |
| 25 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 26 | The oxygen gets to the waterlogged areas of the brain effected by the sclerosis and disperses them . |
| 27 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 28 | But when he gets to the other side of the crossroads it 's not Rose , after all . |
| 29 | When s/he gets to the other side of the circle s/he is gently redirected across again . |
| 30 | So that you can put a brand new car on at eh , A and by the time it gets to the other end it 's literally got rust problems . |