Example sentences of "to get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was more elated than when he had been shooting as an international for Great Britain : ‘ It 's like trying to get eight draws on the football pools — anybody can win . |
| 2 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 3 | Er when I was s I used to get eight shilling at one time Unemployment Benefit . |
| 4 | You used to be able to get odd knick nacks in there now it is just like any other store and we have enough up market stores in Thame . |
| 5 | Speaking before leaving for Dublin , Dr Alderdice said : ‘ The agenda will include the serious security situation , the talks stalemate and how to get political progress . ’ |
| 6 | Dr Alderdice said : ‘ The agenda will include the serious security situation , the talks stalemate and how to get political progress . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It is difficult not to get political , ’ added Ms Robinson , recalling how in 1972 the Tory government had shown sympathy to their cause but never fulfilled its promises . |
| 8 | The technology is also scalable , according to the company , so that it is possible to get software-only playback on an 80386 box or Macintosh IICI or above — users may choose to play smaller pictures or slower frame-rates based on their own system performance . |
| 9 | I think that he refers to our attempts to get cost-effective expansion . |
| 10 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
| 11 | The way to find it was not by diplomacy and negotiation ( though these had their part ) , still less by razzmatazz and public relations , but by trying to get nearer to God . |
| 12 | ‘ I do not like … ’ she whispered in a voice so quiet that it brought both of them lower in their cages to get nearer to her , the argument between them forgotten , ‘ … |
| 13 | Then later when they started coming home his real concern was counting them in , and it was in this period that these pleasant and very charming visitors frequently wanted to get nearer to the operational scene . |
| 14 | One example of this is on page 156 when Scout and Jem have discovered that Atticus is sitting outside the county Jail on one of his office chairs and as they cross the square to get nearer to him , four dusty cars come in from the Meridian highway , moving slowly in a line eventually stopping outside the Jail . |
| 15 | They will pay whatever it takes to get Scots crayfish and Dublin Bay prawns into the shops and restaurants in beautiful condition , when no one back home can be bothered . |
| 16 | You ca n't possibly hope to get that in your early days as a student . |
| 17 | In order to get that response he was prepared to dispense with the niceties of convention and the formulae of polite language : ‘ from the gut , to the gut . ’ |
| 18 | It was then the best part of a week 's work on Malcolm 's part to get that saw running sweetly . |
| 19 | That may be true in general , but the other side of the coin is that Britain expects change in return , and puts on tremendous pressure to get that change , ’ one official said . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're not fucking likely to get that ! were Sid 's last words as he walked off in the direction of the latrine . |
| 21 | If a writer has produced a song he or she thinks is a must for Cliff Richard , a major publisher is most likely to get that song where it needs to be in order to interest Cliff . |
| 22 | Women are still judged so much by their appearances , so we feel we have to get that perfect first , before achieving anything . ’ |
| 23 | Tim , I 'd like you to report on administrative matters first , to get that out of the way . ’ |
| 24 | It offered the seventh floor as a compromise , saying the film-maker was ‘ lucky to get that ’ . |
| 25 | You do n't want to get that messed up . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ She 's gone to get that Simon , ’ said Bella , smugly . |
| 27 | I loved your christmas centrefold but I was a little concerned that Pippin and PJ might have had to work very hard to get that shot . |
| 28 | And we think we 're going to get that with what Jeff has done . |
| 29 | But they were tiny amounts of money , and only to kick-start us , to get that first film made . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Eight brace and Lawler 's lucky to get that . |