Example sentences of "[verb] get [pers pn] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that wretched Richard , ’ she added impatiently , ‘ Has got me right in a corner by bringing that nice man here and letting him invite Dickie down to Devon . |
| 2 | That the revolution must succeed does not , of course , follow from the economic argument alone , even if Marx has got it right . |
| 3 | I do not believe that British Rail has got it right . |
| 4 | He says that I might not need to get it right ? |
| 5 | Just the two of us … we 're the only ones who can be trusted to get it right . |
| 6 | But I want to get it right here if I can . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I just want to get it right and make sure I do the best for each of the students in my charge . ’ |
| 8 | They have reached a point in their drama when they need factual information , they want to get it right . |
| 9 | Erm , but you 're saying , you do n't , you want to get it right without doing that . |
| 10 | Lucy says ’ I want to get it right . |
| 11 | I want to get it right . |
| 12 | So whether he did n't believe that I , I 'd got them right or not I do n't know but the answers were there . |
| 13 | I gathered from Doone 's face that it was n't the type of answer he 'd expected , but he pulled out a notebook and wrote down the reply as given , checking that he 'd got it right . |
| 14 | well yes , yes I wondered whether I 'd got it right you know , it sounded just a silly thing to ask and erm and I erm had to consider that probably asked whether I had erm made a mistake in my shorthand before , before I actually typed it but erm , anyway they seemed erm reasonably satisfied and everybody was very kindly and erm considerate and |
| 15 | ‘ You c-ca n't … ’ she spluttered , trying not to panic that , if she 'd got it right — and she could n't see how else this swine of a man could threaten her — he was saying that her job was on the line ! |
| 16 | I hope to get it right by the time the Olympics come round , ’ she said . |
| 17 | No problem here — Labour was sure of the answer , and Front Bench spokesperson Dr John Cunningham was so pleased and relieved that this time Labour was going to get it right , that when he rose to speak on 8th December in Standing Committee A , he repeated Labour 's position several times . |
| 18 | No , I 'm not going to get it right . |
| 19 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 20 | This time she was going to get it right . |
| 21 | ‘ If your form is n't so clear , you 're not going to get it right sitting on the bench . ’ |
| 22 | It 's nothing major , but I 've got to get it right before I play again . ’ |
| 23 | The PC magazine market needs a reasonably priced down to earth mag so I hope your circulation goes from strength to strength but on present showing there 's a lot to do to get it right , Andrew H. |
| 24 | So why could n't he have got it right last night ? |
| 25 | This new book shows how good manners held nineteenth century society together … but with all we know about what was really going on , can the Victorians really have got it right … |
| 26 | He struggled to get it right . |
| 27 | She managed to get it right by watching the woman opposite to her . |
| 28 | ‘ Like us , they have also experienced a bad start and I 'm sure they will want to get it right on Sunday . |
| 29 | Stephen Roche , who has been spending the season preparing for the two big tours of Italy and France , seems to have got it right . |
| 30 | If England fail to get it right tonight — 3–0 represents a convincing result — then Taylor will find himself the butt of far harsher jokes . |