Example sentences of "[noun sg] get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , offenders who invoke their Protestant religion as a means of justifying some action get short shrift , although we came across only one instance where this was done . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , hygienically edited highlights of the action get replayed nightly on the news through ghostly green videos shot through the night-sight viewfinders of airborne artillery . |
| 3 | I 've always done this , and have never known a horse get chapped heels or skin infections — whereas I have known horses whose owners follow the first course get mud fever . |
| 4 | At moments of great national importance perhaps three-quarters of the population will be watching the same event on screen ; indeed , internationally exciting events such as a lunar landing or the funeral of an assassinated president get world-wide instantaneous coverage . |
| 5 | The view that rapists should be treated more severely was repeated in the editorial in the Sunday People under the headline GET TOUGH WITH RAPISTS . |
| 6 | Why should jazz get preferential treatment ? |
| 7 | Too often , policies for the food industry get confused because the distinctions are blurred . |
| 8 | That sufferers from alcoholism get drunk easily . |
| 9 | And I saw a hen get killed . |
| 10 | Do expectations about inheritance get linked with other responsibilities in families , for example , responsibility for the care of an elderly person ? |
| 11 | Wooden items When wood get wet , it absorbs water and expands . |
| 12 | Did , did , did your hours of work get shorter or anything like that ? |
| 13 | Many karateka get this wrong and make use only of the arm action . |
| 14 | Fender ‘ 51 ‘ Custom Shop ’ Precision Fender get on-line with a reissue of Leo 's legacy of genius . |
| 15 | And then , after I 've been in the workshops about a month , a foreman , a foreman of Signals came and they said oh we can get you regraded , you have to go to the Ordnance see , had to go to the Ordnance get reclassified . |
| 16 | As one moves south , the circles of latitude at constant distance from the North Pole get bigger , corresponding to the universe expanding with imaginary time ( Fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 17 | This can also explain why only some people on similar sorts of diet get sick and overweight , while others seem to stay slim and healthy . |
| 18 | Over the next 5–15 years , 1000s more soldier cells in the body get infected . |
| 19 | It also means that all staff across the group get familiar with the same range of products . |
| 20 | Well , Women 's Group get special |
| 21 | However , while it is possible to discount the efficiency consequences at low rates of tax , it becomes less and less easy to do so as the rates of tax get higher . |
| 22 | I said if the transport get that load of L T M thrown back Robin is gon na get it right in the neck ! |
| 23 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 24 | The brown rice vinegar and red wine get more work-outs than any of the others , although a dash of sherry or balsamic will help take the edge of sharper dressings . |
| 25 | For God 's sake get that scowl off your face . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Now for heaven 's sake get some sleep — and let me do the same ! ’ |
| 27 | Soviet strikes point to crisis of morale that threatens future of perestroika Broadcasts of parliament get more viewers than Agatha Christie films It is the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike . |
| 28 | And this is confusing , I mean I must admit it is confusing and even , even s writers in the psychoanalytic literature get confused by this , because sometimes they , they er do n't see that to some extent the two systems are overlapping and to some extent they 're about di slightly different things . |
| 29 | Gaybours everybody needs a gaybour get some money for petrol I 'll be round the town later on |
| 30 | Of course , satellite dish homes get more than four channels , and those with cable get dozens . |