Example sentences of "[been] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God 's Gift Mine , it was recognised , lay conveniently near to the Brigham smelters enabling ore deliveries to be maintained throughout the winter months whereas the other ores " further distant , can not be brought to the said smelting house , but in the sumer only … you may therefore consider how farr forth those Mynes soe farr distant may bee sett upon with good strength in sumer and what number of kibbles will weekly be gotten and towards winter when that will faile , to drive those pickmen from there to work in Gods gift , if the winter shall not hinder untill we may be furnished either out of Germainie or our own Nation with a sufficient number of pickmen to man all the works thoroughly & withall to consider whether the Myne of Gods Gift be not so plentifull as some other new Stolnes ( G. Stollen — tunnel , adit etc. ) or head ( possibly a forerunner of our word " heading " ) may be driven thereby to gitt the like weekly pportion ( proportion ) as hath formerly been gotten there . " |
| 2 | ‘ It might have been got here , there 's lots of things in Miss Pine 's . ’ |
| 3 | One of the agreements which our government signed at Rio , was for the setting up of a sustainability plan for a British economy , yet ever since the end of that conference , these proposals have been getting successfully watered down and deleted . |
| 4 | The going been getting pretty tough , I bet . ’ |
| 5 | been getting pretty technical . |
| 6 | The change over the past 2,700 years means days have been getting longer at an average rate of 1.7 milliseconds per 100 years . |
| 7 | He had declined an invitation to dinner , as the stabbing pains in his head had been getting steadily worse throughout the day . |
| 8 | Things have been getting steadily worse — all our investments are down — and long before this last attack of Daddy 's , it was almost impossible to make both ends meet . |
| 9 | Rachel had that affair with her boss and Eddie 's drinking has been getting steadily worse these last couple of years — ’ |
| 10 | For the past week or so Dora has been getting steadily more frustrated at the way things are going between Rose and Dieter . |
| 11 | He 's been getting steadily worse for years . |
| 12 | Men have been getting away with murder for years . |
| 13 | For a long time local authorities have been getting away with murder — they 're not keeping maps up-to-date and have low maintenance budgets for rights of way . |
| 14 | The author , investigative journalist David Leigh , has had access to unpublished trial records and secret Whitehall files , and says that ‘ Ministers have been getting away with murder . |
| 15 | I 'd been getting away with it for ages . |
| 16 | Occasionally you stick to your guns which means that Andrew has been getting rather inconsistent messages : he ca n't anticipate the consequences of his undesirable actions since your reactions are not predictable . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , err … you know , I 've been getting rather anxious about my finals . ’ |
| 18 | HP has also been getting close to Novell , and has been working on a NetWare implementation for its PA-RISC chip a move ahead of other players . |
| 19 | Maryon was getting a bit worried about him after an evening out in a restaurant : he had been getting behind with his alcohol intake so he decided to catch up . |
| 20 | Bishop Konstant told the TV reporter : ‘ It is an area where there are great needs , as there are in many parts of Leeds , great social needs — but I think the publicity it has been getting recently is quite unbalanced and it is a good thing to see another side to it . |
| 21 | KITS needed much more of her attention than it had been getting recently , and was now in a disturbing financial position : it did n't look as if the company would make a profit in 1966 . |
| 22 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 23 | ’ At the weekends we 've been getting so busy that we hav n't been able to fly all the members . |
| 24 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |
| 25 | Giant London toy shop Hamleys has been getting more than 500 calls a day for the last two weeks from people asking about Thunderbird toys . |
| 26 | ‘ The Church of England has been getting more and more liberal on the matter . |
| 27 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 28 | Before the operation my speech had been getting more slurred , so that only people who knew me well could understand me . |
| 29 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 30 | All season she had been getting more and more angry with herself when she played badly and there were times , when she was at her most frustrated , that she would savagely scratch the skin from her forehead . |