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Example sentences of "[v-ing] get [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Although many tasks need a degree of precision rather than one of brawn , there are also many ( such as undoing reluctant nuts , making large holes in walls , removing old plumbing fittings , lifting floorboards and so on ) where strength and not minding getting dirty are important .
2	‘ Sometimes they 've managed to find one that is n't even scheduled but I 'm dreading getting stuck they 'll have to send me home in a taxi . ’
3	‘ It seems to put girls off wanting to get involved with me — which I can understand . ’
4	I was not alone in wanting to get private investment into public-sector industries .
5	Oh she 's a lot thinner but She 's smoking to get thin .
6	He looked unlucky when a close third to Going Gets Tough at Newbury on his chasing debut and has less to do here .
7	Billy Ocean 's When The Going Gets Tough .
8	It becomes so expensive erm and if we are going to get new facilities erm we ca n't just keep upgrading what we 've got now , we have to build new .
9	‘ I thought for a moment there I was going to get hysterical and start yelling knickers .
10	Cos the answers , when they come back , are going to be , things like , depends on what you get in your exams and it 's very , it 's very bad stage in your life , it 's er going to affect , but I mean the weather 's going to get nice , and it you know , it 's going to be great .
11	Well in effect it says that how that it 's now the Party is sanctionalizing absolute egalitarianism , the aim that landlords , K M T officers , everyone 's going to get equal distribution of land .
12	And I think what we should get as a Parish Council , is an assurance from Biffa , that they , or from the District Council , from Severn Trent , really , if they are the people that contracted out the work , that a re any resident in Southwell who , who is afflicted by sewerage problems is going to get immediate and urgent attention .
13	I suppose now you 're going to get timid , and tell me not to rock the boat . ’
14	He told us what he was going to do and we knew some people were going to get killed , but that 's just life .
15	We really thought someone was going to get killed . ’
16	Because before long someone is going to get killed or hurt .
17	It was going to get dark and I 'm so filthy and cold and — ’
18	‘ Obviously they have very long memories but I am not going to get involved in any more comments , ’ added the former Gloucester , Worcester and England batsman and BBC commentator .
19	And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by .
20	‘ I 'm not going to get involved in any cover-up . ’
21	I 'm not going to get involved in any covering up .
22	Mr Major was clearly not going to get involved in that argument , and Mrs Thatcher 's made it clear she 's not going to get involved in debating the matter either .
23	Mr Major was clearly not going to get involved in that argument , and Mrs Thatcher 's made it clear she 's not going to get involved in debating the matter either .
24	If she kept on walking , then she was simply going to get lost .
25	‘ But I used to wonder whether she was ever going to get married .
26	He told ‘ er that , when he came home on his next leave , they were going to get married .
27	‘ Do n't tell me that you are going to get married !
28	At 29 I realise that I 'm never going to get married , for the simple reason that no man has ever looked at me twice .
29	‘ Is he going to get married ? ’
30	On the contrary , the differences between us seemed to strengthen the bond I had with the boy : when we grew up , we were going to get married and have babies .