Example sentences of "it [vb mod] get [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It should get away , it should get rid of think about it I 'd 've thought .
2 No further question was invited , so I said , ‘ It must get pretty lonely out at the Lodge . ’
3 She went on to talk to children in the refuge creche and to ask the helpers if they managed to leave work problems behind when they returned home in the evening — ‘ otherwise , it must get so depressing for you . ’
4 I 'm sure it 'll get there .
5 It 'll get there .
6 But as you keep doing that , every day , it 'll get less and less and less painful .
7 it 'll get mainly dry and I can finish them off in here ca n't I ?
8 So even those Protestants who do not believe that the Catholic Church would actually sanction a return to the thumbscrews if it thought it could get away with it view with profound misgivings the decline of the Protestant population of the Irish Republic from 330,000 in 1911 to 130,000 in 1971 .
9 Now , we may surmise that any individual fish , if it could get away with it , would ‘ prefer ’ to play the male role all the time , because the male role is cheaper .
10 On one occasion I was round at a neighbour 's house and despite my warnings that it could get rather messy , they insisted that I show them how Dawn fed .
11 The ‘ new ’ one in the tabloid seemed fairly straightforward — except that if we are to check our own stats every week — it could get quite difficult if players from lower divisions are involved … if you do nt get a sunday paper or a monday paper you are shagged basically .
12 I should imagine it could get quite frantic anyway .
13 On this assumption , a Cambridge don , John Michell , wrote a paper in 1783 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in which he pointed out that a star that was sufficiently massive and compact would have such a strong gravitational field that light could not escape : any light emitted from the surface of the star would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational attraction before it could get very far .
14 it just felt like arthritis , it used to get really painful .
15 Er yes in in on part if you were part of the moon that 's facing the sun it would get very hot .
16 The plane would certainly not be shot down , and as he had not alerted the Observer Corps , there was a good chance that it would get close to its destination — Dungavel , his family home — before being spotted .
17 It will get here the next day . ’
18 But it will get even worse next year as borrowing is expected to soar to an astonishing £44 billion .
19 In fact it will get nowhere .
20 Regardless of what anyone thinks , The Farm will no doubt continue doing what they do , but I suspect it will get steadily more unfashionable and irrelevant .
21 After that your document still exists but it will get much harder and more time consuming to track it down .
22 THE nuclear debate can only heighten as the election draws near which means , as it will he mainly be between politicians , that it will get more incomprehensible .
23 Soon it will get so we will not want to be out there at all . ’
24 A number of meetings have been held and certain loyalist politicians are talking to senior NIO officials and telling them what is causing the violence and that , unless these problems are addressed , it will get very much worse , ’ said the source .
25 ‘ A number of meetings have been held and certain loyalist politicians are talking to senior NIO officials and telling them what is causing the violence and that , unless these problems are addressed , it will get very much worse , ’ said the source .
26 It can get nowhere , it can move nothing .
27 In fact , if the sample of the root were taken carelessly it could damage , or even kill , the rest of the plant , and the countryside needs all the help it can get nowadays .
28 For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with .
29 ‘ Clearly , once it gets on to the motorway it can get anywhere .
30 Right Mr Gordon I think the room is now as full as it can get so we 'll kick off today 's proceedings er could you start by introducing your team for the record .
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