Example sentences of "get [adj -er] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , we carried on , er , it got better as it went on . |
| 2 | The salt made the ice melt , so the ice took the heat it needed to melt from the cream mixture which got colder until it froze and became ice cream . |
| 3 | The mountain rescue organisation is getting bigger and it needs to be sustained — there has been a very dramatic escalation in the number of incidents on the hill in the last ten years . |
| 4 | If rail travel gets worse before it gets better , voters may dump them at the next general election . |
| 5 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 6 | In polar regions , as the heat is lost to the atmosphere the surface water naturally gets denser and it sinks and it spreads at some level in the ocean into the rest of the world ocean . |
| 7 | It 's getting steeper , and then , speed gets slower until it stops again . |
| 8 | It gets stronger when it includes ‘ to be addicted to ’ . |
| 9 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 10 | Individual fibres change their thickness but not their length with moisture changes , and it is the helical geometry of ropes and textile yarns which causes rope and cloth to get shorter when it gets wet . |
| 11 | I mean , it 's bound to get easier when it 's all been fully computerised . |
| 12 | Well it must get hotter than it does in this house for a start ! |
| 13 | Bearing in mind that canoeing is gaining in popularity , along with the leisure industry , the situation will get worse before it gets better . |
| 14 | The National Rivers Authority says the situation will get worse before it gets better . |
| 15 | But the warning tonight is that , with more severe weather forecast , it 'll get worse before it gets better . |
| 16 | The wise men from Harvard fly in and tell you : ‘ It will have to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
| 17 | THERE are some Conservative voters who , believe it or not , are hoping for a Labour victory , on the simple logic that ‘ it has to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's going to get worse before it gets better . |
| 19 | Hyperactive children may ‘ grow out of it ’ in time , but this takes a long time and their behaviour tends to get worse before it gets better . |
| 20 | For the next three nights they 'll have to keep their heads under pillow because it 's likely to get noisier before it eases off . |