Example sentences of "[conj] you get a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In other words , if you do not receive a first grading , that is as far as you go although you get a written critique , so that you at least know why you did n't make the placings .
2 And it 's very rare that you get a brilliant quote out of them including this one
3 Jeffrey : For many people involvement in campaigns around AIDS is having a similar effect to involvement in gay liberation campaigns , in that you get a tremendous sense of common feeling , almost a sort of euphoric sense of working together .
4 All you 've got ta do is hope now that you get a decent picture .
5 ‘ Yeah , there are times , because certain guitars do n't have a wangy bar , that you get a great solo for most of the song and right at the end you want to maybe slide down and you ca n't do it , so you 'd have to find a guitar that would do that , and then blend it in . ’
6 So I mean y'know j it may help you get a first class mark if you 're a good candidate by writing lots , but generally writing lots does n't ensure that you get a good mark .
7 To make sure that you get a shorter sleeve without a narrower top you simply need to reduce the number of rows worked .
8 Of course there are other ways of filtering your pond , but the great advantage of a ‘ black box ’ type filter is that you get a ready-made unit with all the design and construction taken care of for you .
9 It 's very useful if you have detailed questions on this particular report that you do let myself and the chief know well in advance , so that you get a detailed answer , quite frankly .
10 ‘ It is only if you pretend and try to sweep it under the carpet that you get a bigoted response , ’ Mr Purton added after the vote .
11 The best and easiest way to ensure that you get a large range of bricks and enough of each kind of brick that you need to build and repair your body cells , is to mix the protein foods you take in at each meal .
12 If you have tried sprinkling it on breakfast cereal and weighed the quantity , you will have discovered that you get a large volume for a quarter of an ounce — just about as much as you can palatably add to a single portion of breakfast cereal , without beginning to think that you are eating a bowl of sawdust !
13 Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium .
14 I suppose yeah but you , you , sometimes you get the hole wears does n't it were the er blade is and all this business so you get a great wadge of wood jamming in there but er , I could do spending a few hundred quid on tools , but what can you do ?
15 So you get a better chance to aim . ’
16 Bulbs are already in the shops , and although there is no hurry to plant the spring-flowering types in the garden , it 's a good idea to purchase early so you get a wide choice of good quality bulbs .
17 Always use a line as a guide when you cut straight lines so you get a professional finish .
18 Erm although we can , if you look closely you can see that this chap has got a shrimp net in his hand , er so you get a fair idea of what 's going on .
19 Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending .
20 Once you get a fertile soil , the bully boys tend to take over and only about half a dozen plants flourish .
21 once you get a bad habit and it slows your writing down as well
22 And you get a new set of rights — rights which can be enforced in the Chancellor 's Court side by side with the Common Law rights , which alone can be enforced in the Common Law Courts , the former in effect , though not in theory , overriding the latter .
23 ‘ The mucosa becomes slightly softer and you get a furry tongue , ’ he says .
24 … very much and you get a fabulous Radio Subasio T-shirt so keep those calls coming out there this one is for Adriana in Gubbio it 's Celentano 's latest coming to you at fifteen before four this Thursday morning courtesy of your friend Tullio who says …
25 Eventually the glass will explode from internal pressure , it will leave a burning ragged hole and you get a nice fire ball .
26 Too much pressure , and you get a rough edge .
27 It is curious how he manages to make John Major sound about as animated and self-willed as a sack of potatoes.Ask him whether the PM takes his advice , and you get a similar impression .
28 And you get a similar view of that very often by senior officers in authorities .
29 All you do is , you get a mop and you just swish it over and you get a dry mop and just polish it up .
30 You , you borrow ten grand or twenty grand whatever you like to , and you get a certain amount put on that , and that 's it , it 's fixed .
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