Example sentences of "have get [adj] and " in BNC.

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1 Fouling of the churchyard by dogs has got worse and the PCC are considering erecting notices asking owners to control their pets .
2 The injury has got worse and if I continue playing it wo n't get any better . ’
3 Today the questioning from all sides is much fiercer , whilst company policy has got thinner and more nebulous , retreating into the traditional notions of ‘ standards ’ and ‘ testing ’ , technocratic concern with ‘ vocationalism ’ , or humanistic waffle about fostering the development of the whole person' .
4 ‘ Their talent has matured and , although I still love the early stuff , everything since has got better and better .
5 Everything , everything , what oh , papers have got , has got Legal and General on it .
6 " Untie that maid you villain , " I shout With all the strength I have , But the tree has got bored and is picking his nose And Maid Marion has gone to the lav .
7 and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult !
8 The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time .
9 ‘ We 're still fighting that one , ’ Bromley says , ‘ but peak-time scheduling has got harder and harder to break into .
10 ‘ Politically there is more freedom now but life has got tougher and though we have had much help from the West , it is still difficult .
11 Therefore , take what occurs around the 29th or thereabouts as a definite sign or signal from the heavens that not only must life go on , but that it also has to get better and better .
12 He 'd got thinner and the blue eyes were getting watery , but nothing would persuade him to rest .
13 I bet you they would n't find it quite so glamorous if , instead of getting drunk and shooting her , he 'd got drunk and accidentally beaten her to death .
14 I 'd dithered , and I 'd got tired and I 'd gone off and been
15 All for money — yet if he 'd got legless and run someone over and killed them , he 'd have got away with some poxy little sentence .
16 I were down at their house and she 'd got these and she 'd
17 And I 'd got ten and four pence more we used to pay twelve and fourpence monies I had to borrow to buy the book .
18 And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see .
19 So er I said er , I 'd got aerial and I 'd radio cassette
20 I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of
21 As in the case of the sauropod dinosaurs they seem to have got bigger and bigger during the Cretaceous — some of these later pterosaurs are supposed to have had wing spans exceeding lo metres , which would make them almost comparable to a man-made glider .
22 Grasping her elbow , Donal moved her out of the way of the small bridesmaid who seemed to have got over-excited and was racing around with someone 's little boy .
23 It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over .
24 A few days ago I had gotten ill and my legs still feel like thin stilts .
25 I 've got fourteen and
26 Okay so this was worked out not really knowing anything about what 's going on here we 've got that and that go together what would happen well pretty good bet that you 'd get this calcium chloride cos that seems to form pretty easily .
27 Oh I 've done the wrong one a hundred and six , I 've got that and you 've marked it wrong
28 Tomorrow morning , oh my goodness , I 've got that , I 've got that and I 've got that .
29 As long as we 've got that and peace of mind we can perhaps do things outside of what money can bring you .
30 so we 've got that and so I , er , I 'm gon na have to , how much does it cost to put your own line in ?
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