Example sentences of "but [conj] it get " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once it gets wet the weight of the water may well kill it . |
| 2 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 3 | At the moment this innovatory scheme was still at the planning stage , but once it got off the ground I could n't fail to gross a minimum of fifty thou in the first year of operation , after which the sky was the limit . |
| 4 | Coaxing is another and sycophancy is another — you put your own interpretation on it but if it gets a good show , then it 's all a matter of semantics . |
| 5 | Oh , it 'll burn your horn buds off , all right , but if it gets in among the food , that 's it . " |
| 6 | It 's ready to put a match into but if it gets a bit colder now today night I 'll put a match in there see . |
| 7 | But when it got to my last week I just thought stuff it , I 'm going to give it my best shot . |
| 8 | A bit slow to start but when it got going it was outstanding . ’ |
| 9 | Her explanation : ‘ He was going to tour but when it got closer he realised he did n't want to . |
| 10 | But when it got dark , I had to go to bed because I had no light . |
| 11 | But when it got seriously worrying I went to my doctor . |
| 12 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 13 | But when it got to lunchtime today it 's been quite . |
| 14 | In early winter , when the first snows come , he wears socks in the boots , but when it gets cold he takes them off and replaces them with grass . |
| 15 | These are interesting if you 're building bridges , but when it gets really interesting is when things start moving . |
| 16 | . And look at that , interpret it , think oh well , the distance is increasing only fairly gradually as time goes on , but when it gets to there , the distance is increasing at a constant rate , as time goes on , so we 've got a constant speed . |
| 17 | Yes , yeah but when it gets burnt down you , I mean they ca n't |
| 18 | Lately none of these groups have been present in the park , but as it gets warmer they will return . |
| 19 | Well in really warm weather a T-shirt and shorts may be enough but as it gets colder so you need to add layers of sweaters , trousers and top the whole thing up with a wind and waterproof spray suit but all that can make you a little clumsy , so the answer for most British sailors is a wetsuit like the ones that you and Suzanne are wearing . |