Example sentences of "have been getting [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
| 2 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 3 | The star has been getting used to the infatuations of Luke-crazed girls . |
| 4 | The result of all these changes is two-fold , that the UK has been getting richer , but not as fast as the rest of the industrialized world . |
| 5 | BUT THE ROYAL SCANDAL OF THE CENTURY HAS BEEN GETTING CLOSER … |
| 6 | The problem for researchers in this country has been getting enough Yew to carry out their work . |
| 7 | He says that the river has been getting cleaner over the years so this is a setback . |
| 8 | He says that the river has been getting cleaner over the years so this is a setback . |
| 9 | If one partner has been getting statutory sick or maternity pay for a continuous period of 13 weeks or more , this is counted as income . |
| 10 | If one partner has been getting statutory sick or maternity pay for a continuous period of 13 weeks or more , this is counted as income . |
| 11 | If one partner has been getting statutory sick or maternity pay for a continuous period of 13 weeks or more , this is counted as income . |
| 12 | And he 'd been getting worse , no doubt about that . |
| 13 | As she 'd said to Ben when they 'd been getting ready to go to bed last night , you could practically feel the highly charged sexy atmosphere between that pair of love-birds ! |
| 14 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 15 | The problem for the students to some extent , is being compounded by the withdrawal of housing benefit , which means that they 're paying the full cost of rents in the private sector , whereas before they might have been getting ten , twelve even , more pounds a week refunded to them through the housing benefit scheme . |
| 16 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 17 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 18 | We heard today they were supposed to have been getting engaged to er a seventy year old woman ! |
| 19 | Who 's , the one who 's supposed to have been getting engaged to son , and they call him David . |
| 20 | It was then getting on for three in the morning , but in the last quarter of an hour things had been getting better . |
| 21 | He said well Karen had been getting moody . |
| 22 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 23 | Over the past few years , that phobia had been getting worse . |
| 24 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 25 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |
| 26 | That 's probably why I 've been getting low but it 's something funny . . |
| 27 | And I 've been getting all the |
| 28 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 29 | But I 've been getting faster as the years go by . |
| 30 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |