Example sentences of "gets [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They have the ball out with Stewart on this right hand side , so much needed of him tonight , he gets that one across , it falls to and gets the shot in and makes the save . |
| 32 | It gets political in its indictment of the corrupt railroad — it ‘ leaves two shiny , slimy tracks like a snail ’ — that is the representation of a rapaciously capitalist civilisation , and dares to traduce Fonda , Monument Valley and sundry rather icons of the Ford universe . |
| 33 | Claire has noticed that when John gets political he starts speaking in capital letters . |
| 34 | Sophia gets right effect |
| 35 | Well you perhaps wo n't believe me but I sit where Geoff is and she gets right against me and there 's all this to spare is n't there granddad ? |
| 36 | Whisky gets right in your mouth ! |
| 37 | Roz added , ‘ She gets depressed . |
| 38 | " He gets depressed and then he 'd rather shout at me than talk to me . " |
| 39 | Talking about depression is not something we do much , which is odd really because everybody gets depressed and vast numbers of us need help from time to time . |
| 40 | He gets depressed . |
| 41 | Just gets depressed and |
| 42 | ‘ She 's like a bit of laundry that 's been left out to dry too long , till it gets bleached and stiff . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ My opinion of Allen gets lower by the day . |
| 44 | you wan na see when he gets busy it gets lower than that . |
| 45 | Set in trailer park America , shot with an arthouse eye , it has divorced mom Brooke Adams struggling with wayward daughter Ione Skye , who gets pregnant by a wacky English geologist called Dank ( huh ? ) while the other daughter , 16-year-old newcomer Fairuza Balk , negotiates various adolescent crises . |
| 46 | Before it was , why me , nobody else gets pregnant . |
| 47 | In that episode right she gets pregnant |
| 48 | This biting comedy of suburban middle America , centres around Maria ( Adrienne Shelley ) , an ordinary teenage brat who gets pregnant . |
| 49 | ‘ As Candy would no doubt tell you , anything that stays still for too long around here gets painted or wallpapered . ’ |
| 50 | Markets have had a bad few weeks , but if the City gets upset about the outcome of the election , or the currency markets react strongly , there could be more pain in store . |
| 51 | Well , you ring him but if he , if he gets upset or , or |
| 52 | My own muvver swears worse than me farvver when she gets upset , an' 'e 's a docker . |
| 53 | he gets upset quick in n it ? |
| 54 | When we play games with her sh , and she does n't win she either gets upset and cries or gets angry . |
| 55 | Along with source , Insignia gets associated intellectual property including the Windows user interface , Windows APIs , and the Windows trademark and logo . |
| 56 | Along with the source code , Insignia gets associated intellectual property including the Windows user interface , Windows Application Programming Interfaces , and rights to use the Windows trademark and logo . |
| 57 | AS SCIENCE gets nearer to proving that thermonuclear fusion is scientifically feasible , concern grows as to the best machine to build . |
| 58 | As he gets nearer and nearer the jungle in which he will begin hunting , he comes near to a large bush . |
| 59 | As the person gets nearer and nearer to the supermarket so their level of anxiety may be gradually rising in anticipation of difficulty . |
| 60 | The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun , eventually collides with it , and settles down to a stationary state . |