Example sentences of "get the general " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |
| 2 | I have probably missed a few esoteric cuisines and no doubt some of the possibilities you 'll see chalked up on the blackboard or down in the menus , but you 've got the general idea by now . |
| 3 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 4 | got the General Office now . |
| 5 | ‘ I can relax it a bit , provided you 've got the general idea . |
| 6 | Let's just have a look at them have you got the general conditions here ? |
| 7 | ‘ Well — um — you 're not so strange , ’ she attempted a joke to lighten the atmosphere , though owned , ‘ but you 've got the general idea . ’ |
| 8 | You get the general picture . ’ |
| 9 | Once you get the general idea that programs and data files can be made to interact , you can have fun with them and you can also be more productive ( which is the excuse to use if your boss finds you doing this ) . |
| 10 | look for the main ( and secondary ) ideas ; 2. get the general shape and subject-matter clear ; and 3. do n't attempt to take notes — or mark the page ! |
| 11 | I get the general idea . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , anyway , I 'm sure you get the general drift . |
| 13 | Getting the general idea off Nutty , Hoomey put his hand up . |
| 14 | Our students have realised that if they miss an assessment for just one learning outcome , they wo n't get a module , and will jeopardise their chances of getting the general SVQ . |
| 15 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note . |
| 16 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note |
| 17 | ‘ If it 's Harry , ’ George called , ‘ and he 's got any good news , just throw a fit and I 'll get the general idea . ’ |
| 18 | just to get the general picture , let me an exact period , let's get estimates because we have no idea , er , so estimates might be made or the management costs , four months or six months would you say before anybody moved in ? |