Example sentences of "can get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cognac costs the same , vodka half that — although if one can get drunk on either , given the proportion of water to alcohol , I have yet to prove it . |
| 2 | You can get drunk and dance to them or you can listen intently to the lyrics . |
| 3 | ‘ If I can get drunk enough on this stuff I might be able to get away with it at the next repatriation board . ’ |
| 4 | We can get drunk , we can excite ourselves sexually until we achieve an orgasm . |
| 5 | ‘ I take it I can get drunk as a lord should on such an occasion ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You can get drunk and sing with the rest , and yet you like to be on your own . |
| 7 | You can get drunk tonight . |
| 8 | Alison said oh great you can get drunk . |
| 9 | The only trouble is I did have quite , well it 's easy though that 's the thing it 's just like a , it 's just a multi storey car park , so it 's quite easy , and you , you know you can get strong when you 're pissed do n't you , like |
| 10 | You can get hallucinogenic everything in the jungle . |
| 11 | So people oh I can get six windows for two hundred pound . |
| 12 | She got invitation and everything , there 's no way on God 's earth she can get six hundred pound . |
| 13 | You can get wetter than if you had been in a winter shower . |
| 14 | You have more of the ‘ good times ’ and less of the routine day to day jobs when your child can get bored and irritable — I think it does a child good to get to know and trust somebody different , such as a childminder or a nanny , rather than depending on his or her mother entirely for everything . |
| 15 | Things can get worse and that 's what 's happening now . ’ |
| 16 | You know you get these little red veins on the su , on the cheek area if you do n't wear a moisturizer those little red veins can get worse , so we use a moisturizer to try and protect the skin . |
| 17 | They will be conscious of the camera but if this is something they normally do , and if you handle the occasion unobtrusively , allowing some run-in time for everyone to settle down , you can get useable examples of language in action . |
| 18 | So I mean if she can get set nights , she wo n't get in this term anyway I presume all the places will have gone . |
| 19 | This means you can get professional help any time of the day or night , and at weekends . |
| 20 | Unless we can get professional managers who are as good entrepreneurially as those who set up for themselves we shall have major problems ahead . |
| 21 | GREEN FINGERED enthusiasts can get professional advice on how their gardens grow this Sunday at a special open day in Castlereagh . |
| 22 | And she had one or two hires including higher art and then somebody said oh that would be good for the P R department is looking for staff so she now is doing a superb job running a marketing operation , editing an internal newspaper it all herself and erm all of that I taught her , now I want to move her on to the stage where she can get professional recognition for this , now that is what I call an absolute beginner |
| 23 | Often I can get sidetracked and spend too long on the wards and before I know it , it 's late afternoon . |
| 24 | Because we 're right we 're we , we 're , we 're better people as a result , so th th there 's a tendency just as in individuals can get proud and even arrogant and self-satisfied , so does the tendency for groups to get proud , arrogant and self-satisfied because and what fuels this group erm feeling is narcissism . |
| 25 | At this stage , we make consecutive accurate calculations , to see if we can get consistent values for |
| 26 | ( You can get pregnant sniffing his armpits ! ) |
| 27 | I can get pregnant . |
| 28 | You can get , you can get well before you letters out |
| 29 | ‘ I had a lot of fun making the programme but it can get boring after a while . |
| 30 | Yeah well something like , that can get boring ! |