Example sentences of "[was/were] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 10.30pm the contractions were getting even stronger and I was beginning to feel like I 'd just finished running a marathon . |
| 2 | The , we did er our baths were dating from the nineteen fourteen period and they were getting rather old the , the , the boiler was n't too good and we were afraid that it might burst at some time . |
| 3 | Subsequently all four men were convicted of smuggling and their defence counsel stated in court in their defence that they were " the dupes and pawns in a high powered enterprise while the real criminals behind the racket were getting away scot free . " |
| 4 | They were getting away from the busyness and bright lights . |
| 5 | Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ? |
| 6 | Within a month or two we were getting pretty good at it . |
| 7 | By this time faces were getting pretty long . |
| 8 | Diane was just thinking that she 'd go around to the back and see how the Venetz sisters were getting along with the buffet , when somebody moved in and stood beside her ; Pete McCarthy , wearing a more-or-less new jacket and a pleasant smile , his tie already undone . |
| 9 | So he was making you feel as if you were getting somewhere |
| 10 | She waited a moment and , as she saw light dawn on the other woman 's face , she started to think that they were getting somewhere . |
| 11 | They were getting well clear now , even allowing for its unnatural speed . |
| 12 | Things were getting compellingly out of hand with Henna Mickiewicz . |
| 13 | The footsteps were getting nearer and from the sound of it there were at least a dozen men . |
| 14 | The Captain and the Brigadier were getting nowhere . |
| 15 | When she saw that her tense efforts to concentrate were getting nowhere she made a swift expedition back to the Hall . |
| 16 | The Corporal and I shouted at the Sergeant to step on it , as the explosions were getting closer . |
| 17 | Diana has been furious that some Palace aides tried to build up stories before the tour that the couple were getting closer together again . |
| 18 | Soon Paige could hear it too — there were people climbing up towards them and they were getting closer by the second . |
| 19 | As we were getting faster |
| 20 | The plebs were getting everywhere , and in a survey of ‘ Cheap Literature ’ Mrs Bosanquet even found reason to frown upon the working-class lads who were now sauntering into the public libraries : |
| 21 | Over the past 10 years we have already come from a situation where road runners were getting virtually nothing from the sport , to a far more respected and well-provided role . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The change was certainly marked and immediate in our office ; we were getting literally hundreds of phone calls a day . ’ |
| 23 | I was pleased to note that since they 'd acquired Posis they were getting almost quick about it . |
| 24 | We were getting interestingly close to setting a new record . |
| 25 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 26 | Another trip worth taking time for is to Berchtesgaden , Hitler 's Eagle 's Nest which was his ‘ country retreat ’ when the pressures of life were getting too much for him . |
| 27 | One day during rehearsal of Sea Change , she remembers , when things were getting too complicated , she simply told him to stop and leave it altogether until the next day . |
| 28 | After a while , David said we were getting too big for people not to turn up . |
| 29 | Patscentre made Yes-Man after it decided that robots were getting too complicated : manufacturers were trying to make them both cognitive and manipulative . |
| 30 | But we were getting too near the truth . |