Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I think what I will do is , in view of the fact that be brave and get here , I think I will still |
| 2 | Hospital advertising is popular and getting ever more sophisticated so you need to find out what is on offer and who is using it . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't just doing it , it was being afraid and getting there , like Grandfather 's story about Jamie hunting . ’ |
| 4 | You wo n't be feeling totally ticketty-boo so take it easy and get as much rest and relaxation as possible . |
| 5 | If it was a complex curve , starting lazy and getting tight , say , Flynn made up a set of templates , each consisting of a plank and three nails to mark the tangent and the offset sighting lines . |
| 6 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 7 | He turned to the Indian again , asking questions in Spanish and getting nowhere . |
| 8 | After two months , Joy 's enjoyment of tricking the customers was decreasing , there was still no difference and the customers were just as rude or getting even worse , for more ‘ skinnys ’ were arriving and ordering more food . |
| 9 | But also you can get , you know you , you sometimes you can fall lucky and get quite a lot of prices from cold calling as much as reviewing this one little , renewing every , every six weeks and trying to think of something to say that you have n't said before , like I had n't told you or Pete , you know , things like that . |
| 10 | Lambert dropped his right wing and dummied to go around the right of the balloon , and just as the Triplane started firing he banked steeply to the left and got away . |
| 11 | I am cold and getting more frightened by the hour . |
| 12 | I should be so lucky as to get that close . |
| 13 | This was definitely one for the album and after several quick shots back she went — not quite a grand-daddy but getting closer . |
| 14 | Sub-text : ‘ I 'm not making myself vulnerable , I do n't want to deal with the unpredictable or get close to you . ’ |
| 15 | Right now , that seemed almost more important than getting away from Julius . |
| 16 | ‘ They were very small ticks but very numerous and got all over you . |
| 17 | By the time we worked it loose and got aboard again , Dennis 's initial fit had passed , but he was still adamant that he wanted to get as far as the Thames . |
| 18 | Although we went a goal behind , they were very vocal and got right behind us . |
| 19 | Unbeaten Rangers are the surprise Premier pacemakers , and manager Gerry Francis admitted : ‘ Staying at the top will be a lot more difficult than getting there . |
| 20 | The frequency with which the operation is carried out depends upon the plants involved and the compost or soil in which they were originally planted , but its need becomes apparent when the leaves of the plant become yellowish and get progressively smaller , and the blooms are of poor colour and with few petals . |
| 21 | They start off slow and get then faster and faster . |
| 22 | By this year 's conference , held last month at the Abbey Hotel in Great Malvern , the ‘ exceptionally rapid and radical change ’ Mr Scott had predicted appeared to be all too close and getting closer . |
| 23 | And there 's also the cheap ego massage of just having people come up and recognizing you , which is very nice when you 're young but gets progressively more boring . |
| 24 | Full of expectations , the travelling is more fun than getting there . |
| 25 | And it 's al you always think , it 's a real anti-climax because you , you 've made so much thing about getting ready and getting there and when you when you do finally arrive there you 're just exactly the same as the million others . |
| 26 | Well , I might forgive and forget but I 'm more likely to get mad and get even . |