Example sentences of "get it the [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 we 've got a hundred grams divided by twenty eight pennies , the answer is whatever it comes to grams per divided by pennies , grams per penny , so that 's a good check that you 've got it the right way up , before you go and calculate it you just have a little look , what have I got here ?
2 erm Now , what you 've got there is a slightly later map of 1675 , which is exactly the same , the north is at the bottom , I 'm afraid the top is not very obvious , if I could just hold it up , you 've got the castle there , and you 've got it the right way up , and actually there 's some writing as well .
3 I 've got it the other way round look .
4 No , no , no you 've got it the wrong way round , I went , I brought you here and then I had to go back cos I was in the Royal Marine Police
5 ‘ No , Ace , you 've got it the wrong way round .
6 got it the wrong way round .
7 That one , that one , page two , get it the right way up , that one , like that , that 's it .
8 what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny .
9 When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant .
10 Good try — but you got it the wrong way round !
11 ‘ Yes , but we want to get it the right way about , ’ said Pumlumon .
12 Oh very good , good , watch that it 's very easy to get it the wrong way round .
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