Example sentences of "[vb infin] get it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do you think get it so horribly wrong this time round in the general election ? |
| 2 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 3 | Being an outsider she would have got it anyway , but this precipitated matters . |
| 4 | Victor would have got it completely wrong . ’ |
| 5 | His first thought , as he shook the hand of the distinctive dark man almost as tall as himself , was that Francesca must have got it wrong this time . |
| 6 | I must have got it wrong , for ‘ one ’ was older than the two brothers , Guy and Noël . |
| 7 | ‘ You must have got it wrong , ’ Caterina was saying . |
| 8 | Oh yes , you worked overtime , for which there was no pay , I mean , it did n't count er You see things , you know , there was less structure about it , then , erm and you could have ti if you wanted time off for something , you 'd probably have got it fairly easily , but er it did n't seem to be the great arguments that you 've had since . |
| 9 | How can they have got it so wrong ? ’ |
| 10 | How could we have got it so wrong ? |
| 11 | How could I have got it so wrong when it mattered so much ? |
| 12 | I , I sort of heard Debbie and Chris talking the other day , and I might have got it totally mixed up , but I reckon , I heard Chris saying that , well basically what I gathered was that Andy might have a different father to Chris and it was Andy 's father that 's died , right ? |
| 13 | And I would have got it together if I 'd had time had gone out to work instead of for days on end being unemployed and sitting and telling me about Karen . |
| 14 | Had I hit it a bit harder , I would have got it quite close to the flag . ’ |
| 15 | TOTTENHAM Hotspur may not have got it quite right on the pitch , but off it , Spurs plc , chaired by the Amstrad tycoon , Alan Sugar , netted profits of £3.28 million before tax in its first half-year , against only £810,000 before . |
| 16 | ‘ I think we 'd better try to get it home , Mrs Lomax , ’ said Tina . |
| 17 | They are no longer the inconvenient , unwanted , useless and ‘ why did I have to get it now ’ things that they are commonly thought to be but they are actually the manifestation of each person 's attempt to get well , to maintain order and balance in the system . |
| 18 | Engineers apart , there are no students who will ever manage to get it together to decide on pay . |
| 19 | ‘ However , in view of recent events I do intend to get it electronically protected . ’ |
| 20 | I really want to get , I er , I I want you to , I did n't really want to make it to four , I did n't want to get it too formalized because I think that sometimes gets in the way of real information . |
| 21 | See I do n't want to get it too wet warm it up in a minute ca n't we ? |
| 22 | I ca n't seem to get it together at present . |
| 23 | With the upstart Parsons that margin was as wide as a motorway , of course , but even Thomas Carter , Nature 's gentleman , could n't help getting it ever so slightly wrong , in his case by bending over backwards to minimize his achievements and rubbish his accomplishments in order to spare you the painful comparison with your own lacklustre status . |