Example sentences of "be get [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | Lovat , you 're gettin' fatter . " |
2 | You look like you 're getting taller ! |
3 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
4 | you know they 're getting worse and worse and worse . |
5 | Her kidneys are working at only 9% efficiency and they 're getting worse . |
6 | Now they 're around levels found in a noisy office and they 're getting worse . |
7 | You 're getting worse than a woman you , now you 're at home ! |
8 | You 're getting worse . |
9 | At last we 're getting nearer to solving one of life 's great mysteries — why cats purr . |
10 | But really I do n't think so , although I did speak to the Reading manager Ian Porterfield a few minutes ago and he does seem relaxed and so do his players , so you know I am a little worried now , now we 're getting nearer kick-off I 'm beginning to get a little more worried . |
11 | The does need some for their young when they 're getting bigger ; and it 's particularly convenient for all of us in bad weather . |
12 | There are big holes in the AOL and they 're getting bigger . ’ |
13 | So as you get older , your potential to earn increases Now in this case , because age is increasing and income is increasing , I E they 're getting bigger together , it 's said that there 's a positive correlation In the case of reaction time and intelligence quotient , as reaction time gets bigger I E gets worse I Q increases , so in fact many people would say that their in I Q and R T are negatively correlated in the sense of as your I Q gets better , your reaction time gets worse . |
14 | They 're getting bigger |
15 | ‘ You 're getting thinner . |
16 | We 're getting better at using this third person factor in political campaigning , but it 's still not used fully . |
17 | It had not been an easy concept to grasp at first , but ‘ we 're getting better at being businessmen , ’ Mr. Lockley said . |
18 | ‘ It shows that ye 're getting better . ’ |
19 | Actually you 've got McDonalds so you 're getting better . ’ |
20 | ‘ They 're good , and you 're getting better all the time . |
21 | And if you really think you 're getting better , you can get better . |
22 | then I think , we have n't , I think we 're getting better at attracting women into services and and providing what they 're looking for but we need to hear from them what they 're looking for , erm er with , from those services . |
23 | Now the purpose of therefore of this training course and any any training course is to do this is to be able to handle the arousal and increase your level of performance and even get the peak to move that way so for any level of arousal you 're getting better performance but you 're also able to handle a bit more butterflies a bit more of the nerves in order to perform effectively , and apart from a training course like this how do you achieve that ? |
24 | Yeah we 're getting better . |
25 | You 're getting better . |
26 | Eight threes are twenty four , you 're getting better are n't you ? |
27 | Oh you 're getting better |
28 | Well the interesting thing which is happening is that we 're getting better at preventing these things happening . |
29 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |
30 | Well they 're getting stricter all the time and the big danger is , of course , that the restrictions are too strict . |