Example sentences of "gets it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that a good gimmick is contagious — everyone in Hollywood gets it all at once , and then you get a rash of movies all suffering from the same big idea . |
| 2 | ‘ She talks about history , then gets it all wrong . |
| 3 | if she , if she gets it all signed over to her she signs all the bills over |
| 4 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 5 | Cos he he really does it , I do n't know how he does it really , how he gets it all level like that . |
| 6 | She only saves a matter of fifteen P and gets it all back on the petrol |
| 7 | ‘ Make sure he gets it right . ’ |
| 8 | Either he gets it right or we all go up the Swanee . ’ |
| 9 | If Mr McCrickard gets it right , the benefits of cost savings will begin to come through in 1991 . |
| 10 | Likewise , if you wish your youngster to persist with a task after he has learned to do it , you should arrange things so that he is no longer rewarded every time he gets it right ( 'continuous reinforcement' is applicable , as we saw , only when the individual is acquiring a skill ) but only on the odd occasion ( a schedule called ‘ intermittent reinforcement ’ ) . |
| 11 | A Undergravel filters still remain the most popular form of biological filtration for marine aquaria , and while they do it is important that the hobbyist gets it right from the outset . |
| 12 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 13 | I am not sure whether I can confirm that off the cuff , but The Guardian sometimes gets it right . |
| 14 | well if he gets it right |
| 15 | you know you can always fast forward it till it gets it right , but you 've got all the characters coming round you know in all these cars and all |
| 16 | So it is a slow pitch , there 's very little pace in it for him , but it never puts him off , he still comes hurling in and er he 'll , he 'll flat out on anything , that it , we were saying some days he gets it right and others he does n't . |
| 17 | I 'll eat anything provided someone else gets it ready . |
| 18 | Only he gets it free . ’ |
| 19 | In less frenetic driving , though , the 300SL-24's gearbox rarely gets it wrong . |
| 20 | We 've all suffered the ‘ amateur night ’ feeling that occurs when the poor speaker gets it wrong : the upside down slide , the image on the ceiling , the missing bulb and the inevitable stifled titters from the audience . |
| 21 | Books tell you how , with diagrams and illustrations explaining wing span and feather patterns , but everybody always gets it wrong . |
| 22 | This theory explains nicely why he sometimes does not react in tune with his own interests , that is , he gets it wrong . |
| 23 | There 's the fact that if he gets it wrong he 's lost more money and therefore his , you might say insurable risk is a higher one . |
| 24 | Erm , and he said , you know , I really resent the fact that you treat me like a village idiot , and I said , well you know , I 'm sorry that you feel that way , but my experience is of a group of fourteen people , erm , is that somebody always gets it wrong . |
| 25 | IMAGINATIVE design and meticulous production methods count for nothing if the floor layer gets it wrong . |
| 26 | Part of the reason for that is because sometimes even the press gets it wrong , or at least we used to get it wrong . |
| 27 | I have to say though that with the terms on which we 've gone into the European Monetary System , a six per cent fluctuation either way , which as I said means from two seventy seven deutschmarks up to three thirteen ; there 's quite a lot of risk there for an exporter if he prices himself in deutschmarks and he gets it wrong . |
| 28 | Busy is something Graham Myers has been all season with all Forest injuries Ward with a free kick gets it clear straight to Thomson though Greyson Thomson Gemmell closes down the room immed that 's a very good ball . |
| 29 | Oh that 's a lovely header on as well it almost reached Rozario Greyson gets it clear . |
| 30 | Cooper gets it clear . |