Example sentences of "it right " in BNC.

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1 If you get it right , the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds , and all you 've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout , and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly …
2 The teachers ' union even submitted the draft constitution to the bishops so as to get it right .
3 Of the sense that perhaps everything needs rethinking , that perhaps next time I might get it right .
4 ‘ Make sure he gets it right . ’
5 However , the critical few moments at the start of the launch are not always fully understood , and often there is an element of luck in getting it right .
6 J. Smart of Powys lived up to his name , and was the only entrant to get it right .
7 In return they will give £30 , and a range of OBO fixings worth another £20 , to the most amusing letter each month — to make sure you get it right next time !
8 Tikhon and Stavrogin have both got it right .
9 ‘ We do n't think the product is right yet , ’ he said , ‘ so there is no use marketing it until we have got it right .
10 ‘ I do n't think there 's anyone now who thinks we 've got it right , but we are all struggling to do that . ’
11 Inevitably they do not always get it right .
12 The Government wanted to get it right and ensure genuine competition .
13 Either he gets it right or we all go up the Swanee . ’
14 Likening Tony Benn to the Erich Honeker of the Labour Party , he said the left-wing MP got it right when , after the multilateralist vote , he commented : ‘ Who will believe us on this ?
15 One never , as a result , can get it right .
16 No , no , no , no , no , he said , it 's got to be the real thing , you 've got to start out as you mean to go on Get it right from the beginning .
17 Follow it — it is an Orange Brick Road , which proves how close you can come to a real advertising coup without quite getting it right : I wonder if the café serves 6-Up — and it will lead you to the Great Geysir .
18 Following the first crude attempts by Giotto , Lorenzetti and others , Brunelleschi got it right .
19 Is it right ?
20 I nearly get it right , but I end up hopping again .
21 But he 's determined to get it right .
22 Effectively the sequence is that the person in default is told what is wrong and is required to put it right .
23 THIS year 's flu forecasters got it right .
24 If Mr McCrickard gets it right , the benefits of cost savings will begin to come through in 1991 .
25 These groups have made strenuous efforts to get it right — to get the sound they always wanted , with none of the cheapskate shoddiness that British soul/jazz groups often settle for : to counterbalance that lush , affluent sound with concerned lyrics , nods to their roots and tons of soul-blaring compassion .
26 That way you know you 've got it right . ’
27 But is it right to aggregate sectoral views to produce an overall national ranking ?
28 Could he be the only one who had got it right ?
29 let me try again to get it right .
30 Is it right that liability for the second most heinous crime in English law , which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment , should be satisfied by this relatively low grade of fault ?
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