Example sentences of "[pron] gets [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gets too hot in mine . |
| 2 | If none wins outright on first preferences , the bottom name drops out , and his backers ' second preferences go to their recipients ; then , if need be , the next-bottom drops out ; and so on , till somebody gets over 50% . |
| 3 | Nobody gets away with murder in this City . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My dear fellow , we spend our time here working on things that should n't have been said , but unless they are , ’ he added thoughtfully , ‘ nobody gets anywhere . |
| 5 | It is only when they come together to form a pattern which gets progressively worse that the probability of Chemical Dependency increases . |
| 6 | That 's just one example of an approach which gets away from counting events and controlling for extraneous variables . |
| 7 | Er , right , so stylistically she has erm , she 's picked up , and she 's actually picked up the patterning as well of that , whereas in the middle English one , it was , th the sight , the odour , the touch , no , it was the smell , the touch , she has used an infini an infinitive of a verb , which gets away from the problem , that we do n't use nouns for these things . |
| 8 | A worthwhile longer-term project , which gets closer to the heart of the matter , is therefore to begin to unearth these injunctions , to bring them to light , and to put them to the test of rational and empirical scrutiny . |
| 9 | ‘ The Player ’ is a flowing beaut , while ‘ This Garden ’ has a chorus which gets right under the skin . |
| 10 | " Has it ever struck you , Pinkie , what it would be like to belong to a class of objects which gets more valuable as it gets older ? |
| 11 | A sound archivist will want a recording which gets close to the sound of the original master-tape . |
| 12 | The big cats of the Oxfordshire based Jaguar racing team might not be roaring that loud at Le mans this weekend … their three cars are facing exclusion from the 24 hour classic race which gets underway tomorrow … |
| 13 | The promoter , Murray Beetson , says he does n't condone the use of drugs and he prefers to avoid the term Rave for the event , which gets underway on August the 20th . |
| 14 | A MAJOR survey which gets underway in Middlesbrough today aims to find out what women in the town think about safety . |
| 15 | Still , if you knew the pressure on beds here during the Festival you would be glad not to be in a tent in the gardens — often the fate of the young I do not , however , anticipate being away , as I can not really afford to be ( either literally £££ ) or away from job search which gets daily more depressing . |
| 16 | Yer farvver 's never bin one ter talk much about 'is work but 'e clams up whenever I ask 'im what 'e 's bin doin'. 'E gets very tired too lately . |
| 17 | 'E gets ter know all the business round this area . |
| 18 | Who around here could give her the life and comfort she gets here ? |
| 19 | It 's like Miss , when she walks from the staff office to here , she could have four conversations and when she gets here she thinks what was the first conversation about again ? |
| 20 | Cos I boiled kettle at quarter to five cos normally she gets here about five |
| 21 | I guessed this was happening , because er she told me that she gets here at quarter past seven . |
| 22 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 23 | Of course , she gets away with it most of the time because she 's so pretty . |
| 24 | ‘ Because Kathleen 's quite different when she gets away from them , is n't she ? ’ |
| 25 | and she gets away with it do n't she ? |
| 26 | ‘ Put the kettle on , I expect she 'll have a cuppa when she gets 'ere . ’ |
| 27 | In fact she gets rather uptight because erm during the year at school when they 're speaking English most of the time |
| 28 | The words on the page constitute a lifeless text until the poem is evoked ( literally , ‘ called forth ’ ) by the reader , who is given an autonomy as powerful as the writer 's when she gets deep into a text , using all her mental , emotional and physical experiences — and makes a poem of it : evokes it . |
| 29 | As she gets closer , she scans the motley group of no-hopers gathered on the pavement and then suddenly she 's looking directly at us . |
| 30 | Later , that evening , she gets badly burnt when her wedding dress catches fire , which is ironic , and she dies shortly afterwards . |