Example sentences of "[noun sg] gets [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its own momentum keeps it going until one side gets completely flattened . |
| 2 | Actually , Voight is rather too old for the role , and overdoes the wide-eyed innocence , especially in the last twenty minutes when the movie gets as soft as an overripe Florida plum . |
| 3 | People move jobs , departments move offices , companies move headquarters — and each time the Globe circulation gets slightly out of date . |
| 4 | I welcome the fact that the industry gets together with the Minister 's representative and with representatives of other Departments , and I welcome the agreement to cease advertising in cinemas and to support an advertising campaign about illegal sales to children under 16 . |
| 5 | Alarm messages appear on the screen if the chase car gets too close to , or too far from , the lead car . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to be sure that everything runs smoothly when this blasted delegation gets here tomorrow . |
| 7 | they 're racing against the clock at Prescott Hill climb in Gloucestershire this weekend … as the Midland Championship reaches the half way stage … practice gets underway in the morning … the green light for the competition runs will go on at 10 on Sunday … |
| 8 | It grows from strength to strength each year and the quality of the programme gets even better . |
| 9 | Logistical experts will be meeting shortly to ensure that that aid gets swiftly to those in need . |
| 10 | A new club is opening with a gymnastics display at Rayburns Close … the action gets underway on Wednesday at seven thirty . |
| 11 | A new club is opening with a gymnastics display at Rayburns Close … the action gets underway on Wednesday at seven thirty . |
| 12 | Light and dark imagery represent the opposites life and death as the imagery gets darker while the poet gets closer to death both in himself and in the poem . |
| 13 | The two meet at the Showgrounds this Saturday to play for pride — and players for places — in the final game before the Irish League campaign gets underway . |
| 14 | And as another campaign gets underway next Saturday , McGaughey lists his top four finishers as Portadown , Linfield , Bangor and Crusaders — in that order . |
| 15 | They 're not terribly interested in the depressed South so the depressed South gets more depressed . |
| 16 | In the dark old days rugby tours never went further than the west country or Wales … but times are changing fast as the sport gets more professional … you have to think big time now to win matches and survive in the first division … that 's why Gloucester 's new full-time director Barrie Corless and coach Keith Richardson took the players off to Italy for a two match tour |
| 17 | They will begin to understand only when the boy gets here . |
| 18 | Er they say that 's where most of it went on er they would go into the pub and the riveter would tally up the the sheet for the week and say well okay , that 's , you know , the holder-on gets so much and the rivet boy gets so much , and the riveter got so much , and what have you . |
| 19 | ‘ We better leave it how it is till the law gets here . ’ |
| 20 | Aussie ace revives painful memories as Ashes battle gets underway |
| 21 | If the cat gets too close , ducks may peek anything up to 35 times per minute . |
| 22 | To take an example , suppose two mothers regularly go for coffee in each other 's homes and take along their respective toddlers , and that one parent gets quite distressed at the children running riot around the house whilst the other is seemingly oblivious . |
| 23 | But in the ensuing duet for Balstrode and Grimes , this motif gets so entangled with Grimes 's personal strife and obstinate nature that by the time the " Storm " interlude itself begins ( with a variant of the fugue subject ) we may genuinely wonder whether the hurricane is not as much an inward as an outward affair . |
| 24 | If the backpack gets too heavy , of course , you could always canoe back down the river to Chepstow ! |
| 25 | Women hit the bottle as pressure of work gets too much |
| 26 | The partying gets underway |
| 27 | What you want to make sure is that with finite resources , each public spending sector gets as much as possible . ’ |
| 28 | The issue gets even more complicated when I 'm asked to define multiple orgasm . |
| 29 | In short , not only does the user have a better time , the support desk gets far fewer calls to come and deal with apparent equipment failures . |
| 30 | As the fatal accident inquiry gets underway , a leading academic has called for a dramatic change in the attitude of the government and courts towards Scotland 's drug users . |