Example sentences of "and gets [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicky can make a joke of ‘ I should be so lucky ’ and Enya herself hates the concept of ‘ manager ’ and gets tired of the assumption of standard music biz distributions of power . |
| 2 | It 's the shabby kid who has no colours and gets two marks docked ! ’ |
| 3 | If this initial survey proves useful and gets good feedback we shall continue and do a series on all our local rivers . |
| 4 | This type of noise is often from a diff and travels down the tubular propshaft to sound as if it comes from the gearbox and gets louder as the roadspeed increases . |
| 5 | TOTALLY UNKNOWN US bluesman comes to Britain and gets schlepped into a studio to record with a bunch of locals who wish they 'd been born in America 's Deep South . |
| 6 | He sucks everything into his lungs and gets all the candles in one blow . |
| 7 | A BIT PODGY Fergie gives her thighs a pat … and gets that sinking feeling as her hand carries on plunging into rolls of flesh . |
| 8 | So too does the humour in the Company Sergeant Major 's patter as he demands and gets higher and higher standards — ‘ Mr Smith , sir , at drill you are as much use as a window cleaner in Beirut . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He is getting back to his normal self but he is still quite unsteady on his feet and gets nervous when there are a lot of people around . |
| 10 | I 'll be viewing the Methodist Church in quite a different way , but I think it 's very important for us to be made aware of how they do it erm for example , if you have erm a a or or and I do n't think any church has , are provided within that and gets alike . |
| 11 | It is most usually seen in women aged 30–50 , and gets worse in hot , humid weather , in the cold , and following hot drinks , eating highly seasoned foods or a period of emotional stress . |
| 12 | My husband insists I have no contact with my friends , and gets violent if he finds out I have seen them . |
| 13 | Lagerfeld demands and gets total creative control not only of the design of the collection , but how it is presented to the world . |
| 14 | Does n't remember how the word should look , and gets confused when he tries to write it down . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose because she is old and gets confused from time to time . ’ |
| 16 | If it ca n't get out from the surface of the skin then it goes underneath and gets these great lumps which are very poisonous . |
| 17 | Young girl gets a holiday job in a butcher 's and gets more flesh than she bargained for . |
| 18 | Then she drinks too much and gets maudlin about this ex-boyfriend . |
| 19 | You pays your money and gets full value from Brian Horton 's team . |
| 20 | The line operates every Tuesday and gets dozens of calls , because , despite the fact that there have been fewer home repossessions over the last few months , the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux say that more people are getting themselves into debt . |
| 21 | Author of the Mission Earth series has a go at horror and gets some incredible quotes from his American peers . |
| 22 | So she goes out and gets some stuff right ? |
| 23 | And out he goes and gets this woman and in she comes with a chart with a woman 's name the job number , that done it week by week or fortnight , whatever it does . |
| 24 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |
| 25 | The care pulls up at the studio and Kylie greets everyone with a breezy ‘ G'Day ’ and gets ready for the last few moments as Lola teenage runaway . |
| 26 | The way to stop this problem developing is to make sure that your child plays with other children from an early age , and gets accustomed to the give and take of play . |
| 27 | I , personally , do not think it a very good idea to have carpet in the dining room where it only picks up smells and gets dirtier more quickly than in most places since people do , without fail , drop things . |
| 28 | Then we lays there on the towpath , under the bridge , and gets stuck into it , see ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ No one has a go at Van Basten , who 's aggressive and gets stuck in with his elbows flying . |
| 30 | Starring cast Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye , the legendary hero of Fenimore Cooper 's panoramic tale of derring-do set during the French/British wars of 1757 in and around New York State , Michael Mann 's production dispenses with any namby-pamby pretence of squeamishness and gets stuck into the gore from the opening scenes . |