Example sentences of "be get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It need only be a few seconds of me singin' or something but you 'd be gettin' straight to a certain type of literate , intelligent audience . |
| 2 | Remembering a scratch match played in 1879 , which had provided plenty of fun for both players and spectators , Bill Lister had an idea : ‘ Thinks I ta meself , if nobbut t' tradesmen cud be gotten together to play a match once a year , ah 'm sewer it wod goa , an' 'specially if it war ta tak' place at t' feast . ’ |
| 3 | Gareth broke his leg while he was clearing snow in 1982 and the milk from the herd of Guernseys could not be got away , so Rachel got out the separator and sold cream locally . |
| 4 | Suits '68/'69 — mohair or as near as could be got away with . |
| 5 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 6 | ‘ The case on its arrival was too large to be got upstairs . |
| 7 | But he must be got somewhere . |
| 8 | Besides , she is to be got downstairs , and how is that to be managed ? |
| 9 | Locke does not mean , though , that ideas are necessarily received in their simplicity : complexes can be got directly from experience , and do not always actually have to be built up from experienced simples . |
| 10 | Thus , for example , if one wanted to study the reactions of women readers of romantic novels to a change in the cover design of a series of books , a group of , say , eight women of varying ages and social classes could be got together either in a house or in a discussion room at a research agency and a trained discussion leader would ask questions of them about their reading interests and , generally speaking , what they expect romantic novels to look like . |
| 11 | Even after his death Roeder recorded that his Exhibitions were continued by his wife and daughter for some years , when , as Wilson remarks , his etching could be got almost paper-cheap . |
| 12 | That message needs to be got home , I 'm pleased to note this evening that after three years of making these suggestions you have at last started to accept some of them . |
| 13 | The structure of ideology , that which has to be got behind , is created by blocks in communication that limit the options between ‘ verbal and nonverbal forms of expression ’ , and between ‘ communication and discourse ’ ( Habermas 1974 : 12 ) . |
| 14 | I am afraid it is written in enviro-jargon , which will need translating into ordinary English or Welsh , but I hope it helps you think about the kind of issues that need to be got across in a popular television programme . |
| 15 | In the meantime , a tourism study should be got underway as quickly as possible to ensure we maximise our influence over the WTB 's thinking . |
| 16 | That 's my work permit , but I 've got a letter which I 'll be getting tonight |
| 17 | ‘ She must be getting past it , ’ I panted . |
| 18 | This becomes increasingly valuable during the final 16 weeks of the course , when our trainees will be getting closer and closer to the point where they become capable of managing the section , initially for the odd late shift , but very definitely with a view to being able to run the department outright by their final two weeks . |
| 19 | Whatever it was , it was very tinkly and repetitive , and often , just as he seemed to be getting somewhere , Meredith broke off and started all over again . |
| 20 | Just at the moment I seem to be getting somewhere , I 'm dragged off the case . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll soon be getting somewhere . ’ |
| 22 | you may be getting somewhere near . |
| 23 | If only , all our churches could do that we would really be getting somewhere ! |
| 24 | Here are four to be getting along with : Melvyn Bragg 's Lake District , John Mortimer 's Tuscany , Jilly Cooper 's Somerset , Kingsley Amis 's Stomach . |
| 25 | 5 Which batsman seems to be getting steadily better ? |
| 26 | If he had been simply playing the girl game , she reasoned , he would be getting steadily more intimate , and here he is reverting to deference . |
| 27 | It seemed to be getting nearer and nearer but we were still pretty cheerful . |
| 28 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 29 | The ever loyal Daily Telegraph would come closest to paralleling the Conservative Party though even here its organizational links with the party are weak and may be getting even weaker as a result of its new Canadian ownership . |
| 30 | It 'll be getting even more competitive . |