Example sentences of "[conj] gets [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's something in Prince 's voice , an itch that gets right into my pants , a dead centre , a Numan drone . |
| 2 | If you 're doing twenty in a forty and a copper comes along and pulls both of you , it 's gon na be you that gets fucking done , not him ! |
| 3 | Once the temporary blindness passes , half the set has elapsed , but it 's pretty obvious that this is a trip that gets ever more virile with age and experience . |
| 4 | Hypertension , when you are , you know somebody that gets very sort of strung out by things , and you , then you sort of , you . |
| 5 | In this model , the male has as much interest in forming a stable family unit as the female and gets just as broody . |
| 6 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 7 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 8 | While this beginning is effective in showing organisation , it delays getting into the argument , and could be rewritten in the following way , which both demonstrates organisation less clumsily and gets immediately to the point : Since the terms " lyrical " and " epic " present special difficulties when used of Middle English works , it is useful to introduce discussion of works of the period with a brief analysis of these two terms . |
| 9 | Nobody kicks sand into George Bush 's face and gets away with it . |
| 10 | ‘ No one insults my family and gets away with it . ’ |
| 11 | No one insults my family and gets away with it . |
| 12 | ‘ No one talks about my family like that and gets away with it . |
| 13 | Now nobody , but nobody , does that to Jack Scamp and gets away with it . |
| 14 | The converse of drama , antidrama , is the predictable , invariant mishmash of everyday life that leads everywhere and gets nowhere . |
| 15 | Once , twice , three times until , yes , it goes and opens its eyes and gets right up , right as rain — ; |
| 16 | It 's treated like a child and gets so jealous . |
| 17 | One strange thing is that the buzz is worse when the volume pot is turned half-way on and gets less noisy when full up , but even then it 's still noisier than my brother 's Squier which cost less than the pickups on my guitar ! |
| 18 | Still , he enjoyed the chairmanship and gets very cross if anyone suggests that it would have been difficult for anyone to have thrown away a Tory victory in post-Falklands Britain with a Labour Party led by Michael Foot . |
| 19 | When the big day comes the Doom Diver prepares by strapping on his wings which he makes himself ( no Doom Diver trusts any other Goblin to make his wings and gets very angry if anyone else should even so much as touch them ) . |
| 20 | The existing path through the golf course is unformed , and gets very muddy in wet conditions . |
| 21 | And there 's also the cheap ego massage of just having people come up and recognizing you , which is very nice when you 're young but gets progressively more boring . |
| 22 | ‘ I go by there most days , ’ said the farmer , proving himself to be the sort of chap who does not mess about but gets straight to the point . |
| 23 | It 's easy enough in the early stages , but gets devilishly hard as you get further on . |
| 24 | Mr Major must hope that his new chancellor does well enough to rescue the economy but gets so battered in the process that he is judged unfit to be prime minister . |