Example sentences of "get very " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have been doing the right thing by cutting out the dead wood you found in spring , but these plants do get very straggly , and to get the best out of it you will need to be a bit more ruthless . |
| 2 | It was a place of solitude , of plodding donkeys ( even today no cars are allowed on the island ; nor would they get very far if they were ) ; cold water and kerosene lamps . |
| 3 | But this would get very boring if used too often . |
| 4 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 5 | ‘ We accept that we might not get very much for it , but on the other hand we could get more , ’ says Julie Widlake . |
| 6 | Ideologically they did not get very far . |
| 7 | When the rates of pay are this high , the fighting can get very dirty indeed . |
| 8 | The National Security Council , they insist , hums with meetings on just this , but the meetings can not get very far until more is known about how the post-war world looks . |
| 9 | ‘ Look at the state of me. — I would n't get very far , would I ? ’ |
| 10 | They must get very discouraged . |
| 11 | ALTHOUGH the onlookers might find the sight entertaining , you wo n't get very far trying to tow a full-size power boat with a Reliant Robin . |
| 12 | ‘ Some parts of the school can get very cold . |
| 13 | It did n't get very far . |
| 14 | I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) . |
| 15 | Sandy was going to the US and I asked if I could carry for him the next year , but everybody was asking so I did n't get very far . |
| 16 | Also if abscesses come up in sites other than between the lower jaw antibiotics should be used as these abscesses can get very large without treatment . |
| 17 | To escape , the heat has to travel up through quite large thicknesses of continental crust , and a large proportion does not get very far ; instead , it comes to rest and solidifies a few kilometres below the surface , forming enormous masses of igneous rock which have been forced or intruded into the crust and are known as batholiths ( Greek origin , meaning something like deep stones ) . |
| 18 | The fact that different dowsers can get very different results on the same site can perhaps be explained as the interaction between their own energy field and the field of the site , so that the dowsing patterns found can only have true meaning by looking at the dowser as well . |
| 19 | The knack in dowsing is to be in the right frame of mind , not caring too much what answer you get , but at the same time having a clear idea of what you are looking for , otherwise you are opening yourself up to a very wide ‘ waveband ’ and things will get very confused . |
| 20 | Adults wo n't get very far in trying to help someone unless they find out what their reasons are . |
| 21 | The sad thing is that the tie is broken when they are five , and the little ones can get very distressed . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I see people get very defensive and say , ‘ Well , that 's my shit . |
| 23 | Before I became involved in business , I really had very few goals — with the result that I did n't get very far . |
| 24 | I SUGGEST WE WEAR THESE — IT CAN GET VERY RIPE IN TED 'S INNER SANCTUM |
| 25 | Colleague Roseanne Boyle , communications co-ordinator , said : ‘ He was very chatty and inquisitive about everything , but occasionally he 'd get very wide-eyed about all the attention and duck behind his mother 's legs , just like any other four-year-old . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I would also get very bored . ’ |
| 27 | At times a missionary can get very discouraged . |
| 28 | They could not get very close under the walls because of the moat . |
| 29 | Let no one mention horses to me or they will get very short shrift . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ They might get very angry . |