Example sentences of "[noun sg] gets so " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is unfortunate that when a problem of this sort gets so much publicity it can become the bandwagon on which those who desperately want attention jump . |
| 4 | Rainbow gets so excited , she almost forgets to collect the fare . |
| 5 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |
| 6 | when the music gets so loud here that you ca n't stand |
| 7 | I mean , can you think of any other situation , Pop , when a man gets so close to a woman except when he 's actually making love to her ? ’ |
| 8 | Actually , I always wanted to write a play about how life gets so tedious that we start reminiscing about what happened two minutes ago . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | SOMETIMES THIS sort of thing gets so embarrassing that you feel ashamed to be associated with metal in any way , shape or form . |
| 11 | SOMETIMES THIS sort of thing gets so embarrassing that you feel ashamed to be associated with metal in any way , shape or form . |
| 12 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 13 | It seems that every now and again the memory gets so disorganised that Windows goes off to do something about it and hence the frightening silence . |
| 14 | Most crucial of all , the royal couple themselves , with their thin permeable skins , will die if the atmosphere gets so hot and dry that they lose their body fluids or if they are badly chilled , and this may mean the end of the whole colony . |