Example sentences of "it gets " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gets harder to breathe — and you may die . |
| 2 | It may be difficult , but it is not complicated , and if it gets complicated there is something quite wrong . |
| 3 | Keep shit at bay , keep warmth at bay , those maggots of feeling , breeding in the shit , sooner or later it gets to them all , even Hilda , love at last , her very words , who would have thought it . |
| 4 | With silver-plated cutlery , part of its appeal is the scratches it gets in the early period of its life . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , it gets me out of the house . ’ |
| 6 | It gets a bit crowded when Camilla 's boyfriend is here , but they 're on holiday at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | We watch the train shuffle and rattle across the tracks where we collect blackberries and know , soon , when it gets dark , we will have to come down to collect our shoes . |
| 8 | Lately none of these groups have been present in the park , but as it gets warmer they will return . |
| 9 | The Club is almost entirely financed by the proceeds it gets from turning a large part of the Club into a giant car park throughout The Championships . |
| 10 | The bag should be emptied before it gets about half full and this is achieved by turning the bag anti-clockwise so that the spout can be pulled out of the dust port . |
| 11 | It gets parcelled out among the society he moves in , or rather flits in and out of , while himself belonging elsewhere , which means nowhere . |
| 12 | The neatness comes afterwards ; it gets imposed when a long and laborious and very untidy process is shortcircuited by the observation ( which Dostoevsky himself may never have made ) of a direct link between Stavrogin and the underground man . |
| 13 | In the general excitement — the novel has scarcely begun — it gets borne in upon the reader that Stavrogin 's conduct is not the only thing to be puzzled by . |
| 14 | Binoche expects the painting to fetch about £30m , but the figure depends on whether it gets a French export licence . |
| 15 | It gets very tiring jutting your chin out , standing tall and being able to lick anyone in the house if you have nobody to do it to . |
| 16 | ‘ It gets bigger and bigger every year . |
| 17 | The nearer it gets , the more worried I become . ’ |
| 18 | The wise men from Harvard fly in and tell you : ‘ It will have to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
| 19 | Because the typification is very inclusive , covering known criminals and people who look as if they might be , it gets its meaning partly from practical experience of people who typically commit crime in Easton , but also from prejudices that derive from middleclass notions of respectability . |
| 20 | It gets you out of the place . |
| 21 | In early winter , when the first snows come , he wears socks in the boots , but when it gets cold he takes them off and replaces them with grass . |
| 22 | As Sabra , a woman in her forties , told me ‘ If I go out I usually do have my Dupatta round me , but at work I ca n't wear it in case it gets caught up in the machines , so I just wear a scarf on my head when I leave the house — something is needed to save one 's Izzat ’ . |
| 23 | 110lb ft of torque at 4400rpm may not sound like much , but in reality the G40 is so near this peak figure from idle to red line that the overall effect is much more impressive than a car that makes you wait until the revcounter is half-way round its scale before it gets going . |
| 24 | If you go much faster than that it gets windy very quickly , although the heater can still turn the cabin into blast furnace . |
| 25 | It gets the 1.4-litre engine , five-speed gearbox , cross-spoke alloys and a sunroof . |
| 26 | When it gets hot in the city , go for this season 's favourite — the divided dress . |
| 27 | It 's just at night it gets a bit noisy . |
| 28 | It gets pretty confusing after this . |
| 29 | If you hold it in your hands it gets warm . |
| 30 | I stay there for quite a bit , looking round and that , till it gets light . |