Example sentences of "[adv] it get [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's , it 's like trying to climb a mountain , is n't it , in a sense , you , it 's getting steeper and steeper as you get to the peak , so it gets harder and harder to get that last little bit . |
| 2 | Right so it gets smaller . |
| 3 | I should think two years , you know , when the restrictions got lifted a bit , so it got better , yeah . |
| 4 | Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end . |
| 5 | The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun , eventually collides with it , and settles down to a stationary state . |
| 6 | up like that and as it goes up it gets thinner |
| 7 | Now it gets easier . |
| 8 | From herein it gets weirder . |
| 9 | From herein it gets weirder . |
| 10 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 11 | Then it got slower and slower . |
| 12 | He had done it so often , yet it got worse rather than easier : pain in the gut , sticky sourness in the back of the throat , thighs trembling with tension but the hands steady . |
| 13 | Head towards the centre where it got busier . |
| 14 | It is 2.30 am and things are very lively at Number 17 where it gets noisier by the minute . |