Example sentences of "it gets [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time it gets to the papers or my manager at Arsenal , it 's me lying in the gutter . ’ |
| 2 | So the simplest , and most efficient , way of taxing company profits may be to get rid of corporate taxes altogether and simply tax the money when it gets to the owners . |
| 3 | But what you do as a removal man is you get hold of the cord that you 've pulled away from the side of the frame , put a knot in it , a loose knot , then leave go gently because again if you do n't leave go gently if it 's an old cord when it gets to the reaches the knot it 'll snap and you 'll still lose the weight inside . |
| 4 | ‘ It gets into the curtains , ’ she would cry , rushing into rooms and flinging windows wide . |
| 5 | ‘ Because when it gets into the papers , which it will , things will happen fast . |
| 6 | She 's a chatterbox an' it gets on the customers ’ nerves . |
| 7 | It is too early to say whether this is the way the brain works but , as Rolls ( 1987 ) points out , it would make a lot of sense of a lot of uninterpretable data if it was ; it also makes sense on logical grounds , since it gets round the problems associated with grandmother cells , like the problem of perceiving novel objects and the complexities of arranging the massive degree of convergence of input required for grandmother cells to work . |
| 8 | Luz is green less from the rain — it is actually one of the drier valleys in the High Pyrenees — than from the water it gets from the mountains all around , from the lakes , the glaciers and the seasonal ‘ melt ’ . |
| 9 | You know when grandma says it gets in the pores ? |