Example sentences of "get it right " in BNC.
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1 | If you get it right , the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds , and all you 've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout , and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly … |
2 | In return they will give £30 , and a range of OBO fixings worth another £20 , to the most amusing letter each month — to make sure you get it right next time ! |
3 | No , no , no , no , no , he said , it 's got to be the real thing , you 've got to start out as you mean to go on Get it right from the beginning . |
4 | I nearly get it right , but I end up hopping again . |
5 | Too many bands here get it right that 's what really wrong . |
6 | Also , even world class sailors only get it right about 80 per cent of the time , so by following someone you will never manage to beat them and you will often get lead the wrong way . |
7 | If you get it right , and it is not difficult — the ratio of water to biscuits is not critical — the biscuits will turn into lovely , spongy balls of flavoured bait . |
8 | On top of all this there is the pronouncement by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate that it sees no reason why the PWR should not receive a licence for construction and operation in the UK , so long as the CEGB and the people who are to build the power station get it right . |
9 | Stones can be moved around until you get it right , but on a lawn the pattern should be laid out with pegs initially . |
10 | It is a vastly complex process and unless you get it right in one , you will never live to tell the tale , to get it right the next time , in order to ‘ evolve ’ the skill ! |
11 | If you get it right the engine will catch just as it slows almost to a halt and , to the accompaniment of a swirling grey cloud of oily smoke stage right , the hiccupping bass thumping will grow into the irregular loping lumpy grumble of a healthy Pratt 986 . |
12 | If you get it right the Beaver stops on a sixpence ( but if you get it wrong , normally yielding water can be awfully hard ! ) |
13 | Dealer and show producer Lynn Russell starts a new series which should help potential purchasers get it right . |
14 | Yet somehow , this lot get it right most of the time . |
15 | Realising that means asking some fundamental questions about what we are actually after , with a lot on offer if we get it right , and disaster if we do not . |
16 | If you get it right , the model will maintain constant height , with reducing airspeed and increasingly nose high attitude until it stops . |
17 | ‘ Designing a ring is always a lengthy process which involves me producing a number of drawings until the customer and I get it right between us . |
18 | SOMETIMES WE GET IT RIGHT … |
19 | Such novels may not greatly dignify the world they describe , or even get it right ; but their fascination with the inner workings of an administrative system are ultimately reverent , and Snow himself was to end his career in London and not in Cambridge , where he had begun as a scientist : a peer and , briefly , a government minister . |
20 | Also , if two players are standing very close to each other , the computer might give you the wrong one — repeat until you get it right |
21 | ‘ A lot of people thing they 're difficult people , but it 's more a case of them knowing what they want and doing it again and again until they get it right ’ . |
22 | By the time we get it right |
23 | Come on get it right |
24 | Get it right ! |
25 | Unhappily , he did not so often get it right . |
26 | The result was a ‘ carpeting ’ for the entire production team and an explicit instruction to go back , do it again , and get it right . |
27 | It 's funny how often they get it right . ’ |
28 | Get it right ! |
29 | If I get it right , then I 'll have you when you come out . |
30 | ‘ And get it right this time . ’ |