Example sentences of "[noun pl] get [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |
| 2 | Very few of the seers got it right . |
| 3 | Lawmakers got it right |
| 4 | We take them out at about six months to get them used to travelling on buses and trains , as well as teaching them to stop at kerbs , listening for traffic and avoiding any obstacles . |
| 5 | After dark , working by compass , we headed into the desolate Scottish countryside , our rucksacks weighted with filled sandbags to get us used to travelling long arduous miles with heavy loads . |
| 6 | But , if the truth be told , although we would like companies to get it right first time , our experiences have led us to expect rather less . |
| 7 | Carter , who did not appear on stage himself , later said : ‘ The idiots who run pool in this country have had 20 years to get it right and they 've messed up . |
| 8 | ‘ He took over a team in turmoil — and it might take him five years to get it right . |
| 9 | Despite having thousands of years to get it right , many employers still deny their female staff time for one of the most natural of human experiences.But now a new EC directive is set to come into force to improve maternity leave rights . |
| 10 | The names on the Warwickshire team sheet are changing , and Bob Cottam 's statement that it 'll take five years to get it right is looking accurate . |
| 11 | ‘ It took years to get it roadworthy . |
| 12 | It is true that the recession has been putting their customers out of business , but accountants will always be kept busy picking up the pieces , or explaining in long reports why other accountancy firms got it wrong and are liable for a fortune in damages . |
| 13 | Essentially , the bisexual Bessie was the Madonna of her day , the Queen Of The Blues , the Empress Of Erotica , her ‘ Empty Bed Blues ’ providing a catalogue of lovers who had satisfied her sexually , while ‘ Foolish Man Blues ’ found her musing about homosexuality : ‘ There 's two things got me puzzled , there 's two things I do n't understand/That 's a mannish-acting woman and a skipping , twistin' woman-acting man . ’ |
| 14 | These groups have made strenuous efforts to get it right — to get the sound they always wanted , with none of the cheapskate shoddiness that British soul/jazz groups often settle for : to counterbalance that lush , affluent sound with concerned lyrics , nods to their roots and tons of soul-blaring compassion . |
| 15 | His efforts to get it right , to tell the truth , are both painful and deeply moving . |
| 16 | The bureaucrats got it wrong . |
| 17 | Usually , if a company collapses after receiving a clean audit report , one simply leaps to the assumption that the auditors got it wrong . |
| 18 | Nothing is more frustrating than designing a pattern and taking hours to get it right only to find that , when it is knitted up on the machine , the whole thing is either squashed almost flat , or stretched lengthways so as to be almost unrecognisable as the original design , which can happen on some design systems . |
| 19 | Erm , I felt that er , we had plenty of time at the end , I mean we , we tried only three times to get it right , and it was okay , and I felt we worked well as a team in that amount of time . |
| 20 | It took several attempts to get it right , but in the end I felt justifiably proud of my literary effort . |
| 21 | THIS year 's flu forecasters got it right . |
| 22 | Dealer and show producer Lynn Russell starts a new series which should help potential purchasers get it right . |
| 23 | It could take him five seasons to get it right |
| 24 | When next affronted by speculative brick houses aggrandised by wrongly scaled and detailed plastic ‘ classical ’ columns , you might ruminate that the Encyclopaedists got it right . |
| 25 | Scuba World in its magnanimity has given you five chances to get it right . |
| 26 | On that occasion , too , the polls got it wrong . |
| 27 | The whole area was littered with fragments of mortar which had been chipped out of the wall by workmen getting it ready for re-pointing . |