Example sentences of "get [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't .
2 Less entrancing , I suppose , if you 've got them the other way round .
3 Double-check you have got everything the right way round so that the artwork is not back to front , then close up the UV light box and switch on .
4 Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way .
5 do n't forget to use the outside scale , and the other thing is , make sure you 've got it the right height , it 's not a precise
6 we 've got a hundred grams divided by twenty eight pennies , the answer is whatever it comes to grams per divided by pennies , grams per penny , so that 's a good check that you 've got it the right way up , before you go and calculate it you just have a little look , what have I got here ?
7 erm Now , what you 've got there is a slightly later map of 1675 , which is exactly the same , the north is at the bottom , I 'm afraid the top is not very obvious , if I could just hold it up , you 've got the castle there , and you 've got it the right way up , and actually there 's some writing as well .
8 I 've got it the other way round look .
9 Now she 's got it the other way about
10 No , no , no you 've got it the wrong way round , I went , I brought you here and then I had to go back cos I was in the Royal Marine Police
11 ‘ No , Ace , you 've got it the wrong way round .
12 got it the wrong way round .
13 It 's , it 's a bit like in Northern Ireland where you 've got your the religious erm influence they 've got somebody like Ian Paisley the strength of that man and his group
14 It does n't matter if we get them the wrong way round it 'll still work out .
15 And having my kind of build , being quite big and wearing miniskirts , I know that sometimes it gets me the wrong kind of attention from boys only interested in physical relationships .
16 That one , that one , page two , get it the right way up , that one , like that , that 's it .
17 That is what will happen when we get what the hon. Gentleman describes as the raw data .
18 He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately .
19 Well Julie went and got it the other day that 's why fetched her out , to get their presents .
20 what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny .
21 When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant .
22 Good try — but you got it the wrong way round !
23 ‘ And you really think I 'm stupid enough to believe that — what was it , blackmail ? — would get me the very thing you think I desire ?
24 ‘ Well ’ , said Mr Murray , ‘ about this broadcast ; will you get me the Indian name for this city ?
25 He was shedding his wet things as he spoke , and a glance at me indicated who was supposed to hurry off and get him the hot drink .
26 So having got that figure er fixed in my mind that 's what we 'd like to go for but erm and we pay thirty percent commission on all advertising sales , whatever you do however many you sell , you will get thirty percent commission and you will get it the following week , providing you do one or two things for us .
27 And erm erm the tailors would come when they wanted to do any pressing of seams , or anything , and they would take the goose iron , and put it in on of the , what we call press cloths , that we pressed the And then they would douse it in the bucket of water , to get it the right heat , to start , so a cloud of steam went up .
28 ‘ Yes , but we want to get it the right way about , ’ said Pumlumon .
29 Oh very good , good , watch that it 's very easy to get it the wrong way round .
30 You know and if it did n't be paid you at the quarter it meant you di you would n't get anything the following quarter .
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