Example sentences of "get [pers pn] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they like polling elections as a publicity gimmick — if they get them right — they do not like elections technically . |
| 2 | So get them right . |
| 3 | He 'll ask some questions and if you get them right you can visit the landmark . |
| 4 | And if you get them right , then it could be not just this time , but other times , could come along and wreck them , sometimes it 's a bit like a domino queue , is n't it , you get this one fall down , knocks others down as well . |
| 5 | If you 're going to use American idioms when you 're handing out orders , at least get them right . ’ |
| 6 | Need a the , these Fiestas , but they never get them right at the , the bloke I works with got one exactly the same as this does exactly ten miles and it cuts out on him . |
| 7 | Oh a couple of twelves get me right the way round , one , two , three , four , five , six , one , two |
| 8 | So I get you right Joan ? |
| 9 | If you get it right , the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds , and all you 've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout , and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly … |
| 10 | In return they will give £30 , and a range of OBO fixings worth another £20 , to the most amusing letter each month — to make sure you get it right next time ! |
| 11 | No , no , no , no , no , he said , it 's got to be the real thing , you 've got to start out as you mean to go on Get it right from the beginning . |
| 12 | I nearly get it right , but I end up hopping again . |
| 13 | Too many bands here get it right that 's what really wrong . |
| 14 | Also , even world class sailors only get it right about 80 per cent of the time , so by following someone you will never manage to beat them and you will often get lead the wrong way . |
| 15 | If you get it right , and it is not difficult — the ratio of water to biscuits is not critical — the biscuits will turn into lovely , spongy balls of flavoured bait . |
| 16 | On top of all this there is the pronouncement by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate that it sees no reason why the PWR should not receive a licence for construction and operation in the UK , so long as the CEGB and the people who are to build the power station get it right . |
| 17 | Stones can be moved around until you get it right , but on a lawn the pattern should be laid out with pegs initially . |
| 18 | It is a vastly complex process and unless you get it right in one , you will never live to tell the tale , to get it right the next time , in order to ‘ evolve ’ the skill ! |
| 19 | If you get it right the engine will catch just as it slows almost to a halt and , to the accompaniment of a swirling grey cloud of oily smoke stage right , the hiccupping bass thumping will grow into the irregular loping lumpy grumble of a healthy Pratt 986 . |
| 20 | If you get it right the Beaver stops on a sixpence ( but if you get it wrong , normally yielding water can be awfully hard ! ) |
| 21 | Dealer and show producer Lynn Russell starts a new series which should help potential purchasers get it right . |
| 22 | Yet somehow , this lot get it right most of the time . |
| 23 | Realising that means asking some fundamental questions about what we are actually after , with a lot on offer if we get it right , and disaster if we do not . |
| 24 | If you get it right , the model will maintain constant height , with reducing airspeed and increasingly nose high attitude until it stops . |
| 25 | ‘ Designing a ring is always a lengthy process which involves me producing a number of drawings until the customer and I get it right between us . |
| 26 | SOMETIMES WE GET IT RIGHT … |
| 27 | Such novels may not greatly dignify the world they describe , or even get it right ; but their fascination with the inner workings of an administrative system are ultimately reverent , and Snow himself was to end his career in London and not in Cambridge , where he had begun as a scientist : a peer and , briefly , a government minister . |
| 28 | Also , if two players are standing very close to each other , the computer might give you the wrong one — repeat until you get it right |
| 29 | ‘ A lot of people thing they 're difficult people , but it 's more a case of them knowing what they want and doing it again and again until they get it right ’ . |
| 30 | By the time we get it right |