Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] gets [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she is doing anything with children , she always squats down to their level , touches them and listens to them , and the response she gets in just a few moments with each is quite extraordinary . |
| 2 | and you know the things he gets up to , he , well there 's two burglars trying to get into the house , well , he shoots , he shoots them down there both got their little pop guns and that and he , and he flings irons at them and that and , and marbles and ee , ee , you know , then the mother realizes like when she 's on the plane that she 's left her son at home er , the , the film 's , the film 's good , do n't you feel like anything like that ? |
| 3 | The person who gets on with the job instead of wasting time in chatter may show up the less zealous and cause the chatterers to feel vaguely guilty , which of course they wo n't like . |
| 4 | One way of playing it is for the person who gets back first to get one point and it can be the first team to ten . |
| 5 | She says the trouble he gets in , he 's not worthy . |
| 6 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |
| 7 | Oh I love the way everybody gets up and wanders out , we 'll just wait here I think . |
| 8 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |
| 9 | from the time he gets up |
| 10 | It can be arranged without his knowing a thing about it , and by the time he gets back it 'll be in full swing . ’ |
| 11 | It 'd be knackered by the time it gets down to the Cocks Terry , from here . |
| 12 | Notice the rider who gets out of the saddle briefly . |
| 13 | The writer who seeks to control or dictate the responses of his reader outside the boundaries of the text itself , is comparable to a card-player who gets up periodically from his place , goes round the table to look at his opponent 's hand , and advises him what cards to lay . |
| 14 | For example , a 14-year-old who gets out of his seat in class must be taught , with rewards , that staying in his seat is worth choosing and , with punishments , that getting out of his seat is not worth choosing . |
| 15 | Yet every time he gets up to make an impassioned speech about the important issues of our time the elitist establishment of the church rushes in to gag him . |
| 16 | Say it 's , new fashion jewellery and every time she gets out of hand just bash her one ! |
| 17 | Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama . |