Example sentences of "is get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er you 've got a lot of work to do if this is got here tonight , er just s spread the word , tell them it 's not as bad as they probably think it is , there 's no patrols needed or anything like that . |
| 2 | Here perhaps we would like to reply : The description of what is got immediately , i.e. of the visual experience , by means of an interpretation — in an indirect description , ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means : I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . |
| 3 | At any rate , he is got very big ears , and I 'll tell you why . |
| 4 | Pope also confirmed that Miller was widely read in high circles because when staying in Bath in 1743 , he wrote to the Earl of Marchmont about a meeting there with Lord Chesterfield who had told him that ‘ your Lordship is got a-head of all the Gardening Lords and that you have distanc 'd Lord Burlington and Lord Cobham in the true scientific parts , but he is studying before you and has here lying before him those Thesarurus 's from which he affirms you draw all knowledge , Miller 's Dictionaries . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What I must do next season is get really , really fit and prove everybody wrong , which I have done about a thousand times . ’ |
| 6 | And I think what we 're doing here , is is getting ahead of that , and trying to look to the future of the consortium . |
| 7 | This is not unreasonable as CTS is usually used as a signal from a printer to indicate that the input buffer of the printer is getting nearly full . |
| 8 | I forgot the departmental meeting and I bawled out the wrong kid yesterday , there 's a stack of mail that I have n't even opened in my pigeon-hole , my marking is getting pretty cursory , and I have decided regretfully that I do n't have the energy to organize the third-year science field trip this year , nor the time to prepare properly for my A-level group . |
| 9 | Which is getting pretty close to near as dammit now . |
| 10 | Well it 's usually because the heart itself is getting either old or tired or it 's damaged in one way . |
| 11 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and yesterday the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 12 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and last week the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the opinion poll improvement in the past few weeks reflects not only our excellent policy range but the fact that the election is getting closer and the best is yet to come ? |
| 14 | ‘ The world title has been the dream from day one ; the dream is getting closer . |
| 15 | ‘ The world title has been the dream from day one ; the dream is getting closer . |
| 16 | During the course of their conversation , to which Julia listened with only half her attention as she sipped her brandy , she learned that Jackson French was likely to be posted to London to play a part in the winding up of UNRRA later in the year and that Comfort herself was due to leave Venice in two days ' time ‘ now that Julia is getting well again' . |
| 17 | That she is more liable to leave work just when she is getting most useful [ in other words ] there are more changes in a crowd of women workers than in a crowd of men workers.32 |
| 18 | This is getting fucking regular this is . |
| 19 | This is getting positively incestuous . |
| 20 | Maddock reports that most firms are hostile to the idea of moving people between civil and military sectors : ‘ There already exists a large culture gap and it is getting even wider . ’ |
| 21 | The school-girl complexion is getting even duller ! |
| 22 | It is getting steadily worse and is moving westward with the stream of refugees , who , having eaten their last stores and sold everything that would buy a morsel of bread , are wandering they know not whither . |
| 23 | And the train is getting nearer |
| 24 | Finally the M forty is getting nearer . |
| 25 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 26 | Can I just confirm with you Mr , that what I 've described in terms of geographical location , is getting somewhere near to meeting his objective . |
| 27 | At least one cave should be provided for the female to retire to if the male is getting overly aggressive in the courtship . |
| 28 | It is getting increasingly difficult to get into further education ’ . |
| 29 | Round-the-clock nursing , such as Elinor is getting here , would mean overseeing four nurses , organizing their schedules , plus providing meals , transport and the rest of it . ’ |
| 30 | My boyfriend is getting rather jealous . |