Example sentences of "gets [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He fills it up , and cooks for himself , and when it gets down to a certain level then he thinks , ‘ now I might do a concert ’ . |
2 | As tread depth gets down to a certain level , the efficiency of the tyre reduces . |
3 | Olympia 's new ‘ Belorussian Series ’ gets off to a cracking start with a pair of discs , one featuring the music of Dmitry Smolsky ( ) , the other , Yevgeni Glebov ( ) . |
4 | SAGITTARIUS- THE year gets off to a cracking start for Sagittarians : The eclipse on December 9 , 1992 was the first of four to exert a powerful effect on your life — especially if your birthday falls between November 22 and December 11 . |
5 | That way , the conference gets off to a good start because people are raring to go and in the right frame of mind . |
6 | The book gets off to a good start and the first chapter is one of the most stimulating — though I do not necessarily agree with all of it . |
7 | Conversation gets off to a limp start . |
8 | The Third Sonata , with its echoes of the Third Concerto ( a work in which Gavrilov particularly excels ) , gets off to a blistering start indeed — the outer sections of this work allowing Gavrilov ample room to flex his very considerable technical muscles . |
9 | Short gets off to a bad start |
10 | Gilly gets off to a bad start in life by having a mother who deserts her when she is only three years old but her problems since then are all of her own making . |
11 | THE 1993 Historic Scotland Events Programme gets off to a dramatic start on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 May , with a major battle re-enactment by the Sealed Knot at Linlithgow Palace and Peel . |
12 | The evening gets off to a wobbly start , with Liz Robertson 's Maria belting out the title song on an artificial hillside which is anything but alive . |
13 | The family gets by on a hundred and sixty pounds a week from social security and family allowance payments . |
14 | For every 100,000 inhabitants , Belgium boasts 32 central bankers , France 31 , Germany 23 , America and Britain both 9 , while Japan gets by on a paltry 5 . |