Example sentences of "was get [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bubbles , 63 , wife of newspaper owner Lord Rothermere , was getting tablets for a variety of ailments from at least four doctors in London alone , the inquest was told . |
| 2 | ‘ By the hour I was getting reports coming through to me that the princess wanted to leave the Royal Family . |
| 3 | A 10th Anniversary article in the Observer referred to it as ‘ a small back-room in an alley off London 's Fleet Street , ’ and within days the office was getting letters addressed to ‘ Amnesty , Alley Off Fleet Street ’ . |
| 4 | As there were a number of Wall 's stickers on the van , I thought I was getting ices of their make . |
| 5 | Again it was word of mouth : teachers told other teachers about us and I was getting offers to give talks left , right and centre . |
| 6 | Ten minutes after we put the ‘ phone down , I was getting calls from carrier company executives from their car ‘ phones . |
| 7 | Well , very briefly , the ideas was Freud in his early practice was getting stories from his patients that they had somehow been sexually interfered with or abused or something of the kind when they were very young , often by an older male friend of the family , a relative , or even their father and initially Freud thought these reminiscences were literally true . |
| 8 | Last season he was getting loads of stick and his contract came up for renewal — when we were in a potential relegation situation . |
| 9 | If the Council was getting loads of growth in its budget it might not need to increase its charges . |
| 10 | ‘ The princess really laughed when I told her she was getting kippers . |
| 11 | Milkman Phil Bridges could not understand why he was getting complaints from customers on his round in Ackworth , West Yorkshire , saying that their milk had been stolen . |
| 12 | Firstly I had a phone call from a very new knitter who complained she was getting loops at the end of her knitting and dropped stitches along the row all the time . |
| 13 | I did n't realize at the time when I was getting headaches , migraines . |
| 14 | He was getting tickets . |
| 15 | There was a whole lot of paper getting there , getting papers and someone else but the lady in red actually was getting groceries as well so of course that takes time . |
| 16 | but I was getting bacteria and germ , you know , |
| 17 | Now as she was getting inquiries for further ahead , it was possible to plan doing this . |
| 18 | On the morning of the visit , her final hope , a woman whose baby was due the following day , rang Vivienne to say she was getting pains . |
| 19 | It was my first night back and I was getting pains and everything . |
| 20 | I was getting megawatts of sexual response from you , but nothing emotional , nothing — Radcliffe got it all . |
| 21 | There was get wells and driving test , oh have a look because I mean |
| 22 | All I did was get things started . |
| 23 | By 1900 ‘ Doncaster had a racecourse , Wolverhampton a cold store , Glasgow and Tunbridge Wells had telephone services ; a few years later , Birmingham was to get powers to establish its ‘ penny bank ’ ’ ( Keith-Lucas and Richards 1978:36 ) . |
| 24 | His task now was to get things into the hands of the professionals before he asked anyone to take his blood pressure for him . |
| 25 | The point was to get slaveholders to recognise that they would have to adopt ‘ the most economical mode of cultivation ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ The idea of the letter was to get patients to protest at the lack of central funding and to explain to health board general managers that these are services patients think should be provided , ’ Dr James said . |
| 27 | As one teacher put it : Oh , the aim of the Project initially from my point of view was to get pupils from the beginning of the first year to have the ability to actually look up information for themselves … |
| 28 | My first objective was to get pupils to spot how the sequence was built up . |
| 29 | The cure was to get workers and peasants into the apparatus and into supervisory positions . |