Example sentences of "[noun pl] get [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually the meetings got longer and longer until eventually they began , not in the evening , but they began in the morning and they lasted from perhaps ten in the morning until the early hours of the next day . |
| 2 | His breaths got steadier , quieter . |
| 3 | But he was that stiff-necked the old Baron , and Mr Louis , the present Baron , he 's the same , they could n't make it pay even when times got better . |
| 4 | I wish the London Times got better . |
| 5 | They introduced ad hoc postulates , such as proposing that objects got shorter when they moved at high speeds . |
| 6 | Well , by the 9th we still held our two-stroke lead , and slowly but surely the galleries got bigger and bigger . |
| 7 | The waves got bigger , and the people on the rock moved closer together . |
| 8 | Where we lived was n't much of a place — there were fourteen families in the one house and as mother 's eyes got worse , less work came in and we had to move into smaller and smaller rooms . |
| 9 | The woman 's eyes got bigger and bigger with surprise as each thing was taken from the pram . |
| 10 | However , labour started on its own and as the contractions got worse they put a monitor on me . |
| 11 | The sounds built , the creaks got louder , her mind was absorbed with the two of them together . |
| 12 | To say that a dog eats because it wants to is as uninformative as to say that dinosaurs got larger because they had an inner drive to do so . |
| 13 | I 'll tell you there 's no way when my kids get older , I do n't care how boring my life is , I will never ever go round their house every week . |
| 14 | Drink was flowing and voices getting louder . |
| 15 | Lynn Stewart , the teacher and software ‘ expert ’ , and Toni Michael , the computer writer , have got their heads and talents together to write this small ( yes are n't computer books getting bigger and bigger these days ) booklet for parents . |
| 16 | Alas , it is not given to most of us to be sort of genius Edgar Allan Poe was ( most of the time ) , or even to be able to walk in his footsteps like Conan Doyle , G.K. Chesterton , Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie , with those steps getting fainter and fainter along the way . |
| 17 | ‘ Foreigners get poorer and poorer , those that are left — and there are hardly any left ’ , she wrote in the first month of the war . |
| 18 | Sad-Core may have reduced our status to the sick man of Europe amidst the flourishing electronic dance scenes in Germany , Belgium and Holland , but some excavation reveals an underground whose shockwaves get bigger every day . |
| 19 | The waves get higher and higher and the water washes over and almost sinks Kevin . |
| 20 | However , these salts tend to become darker in colour as the anions get softer . |
| 21 | A headline , asked , ‘ Are animals getting better at avoiding extinction ? ’ |
| 22 | The welts , the abrasions and the black eyes get starker , more livid , until it is time for the women to return , in an ecstasy of distress , to the men who will suddenly heal them . |
| 23 | The curved branches get bigger , and each acquires a couple of small appendages in generation 8 . |
| 24 | In Chile , they provide a source of protest against the military government ; in Bolivia , the miners , wives fought alongside their husbands to get better working conditions and pay ; Nicaraguan women have formed a distinct group within the Sandinista revolutionary movement ; and in Brazil , women 's groups have formed to protest at price rises in food and other essentials . |
| 25 | ‘ I do not like … ’ she whispered in a voice so quiet that it brought both of them lower in their cages to get nearer to her , the argument between them forgotten , ‘ … |
| 26 | If a commitment to good schools and parental choice means anything it must mean encouraging good schools to get better and making it possible for parents to send their children there . |
| 27 | See the branches get smaller and smaller and smaller . |
| 28 | Of the 12 games that went to the 18th hole during the course of the match overall , only one was won by an American and , as matters got tighter and tighter , the home team got worse and worse . |
| 29 | so they refused to do it up , well the result was over the years the pot holes down to the sites got bigger and they 're so far off the road from |
| 30 | The face becomes pale and hands and feet get colder . |