Example sentences of "and getting [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everything feels fine — nice and hard and getting bigger every day . |
| 2 | A Mathematics class working through sums with half the children in a state of total incomprehension and getting all the examples wrong , while others spend fruitless time doing sum after sum on a process which they had mastered weeks previously ; |
| 3 | The British Invasion was underway , but the women were still good girls looking for great guys — Cilla , Sandie , Dusty , Lulu — while the blues boom lads were getting laid and getting all the plaudits . |
| 4 | Erm but yes , lots of people from the flats , either taking part in terms of sitting on the committee and doing all the planning and getting all the various permissions that you needed to do all sorts of things . |
| 5 | And getting all the rhymes correct , |
| 6 | And getting all the Bird 's Eye . |
| 7 | " We 're waiting for you , and getting wetter every moment . " |
| 8 | You know he 's going into the country so I 'm to go too and I 'll live nearby in a little room or a shed , for I 'm going to put my life in order , I 'm crazed with living in London and in the pubs and getting drunk every day , no wonder I could n't write poetry , for I could n't think . |
| 9 | Now , major sewage interceptor schemes have been completed and the Tyne is undoubtedly the finest salmon stream in England ; and getting better every year . |
| 10 | I 'm maturing , feeling good and getting better every day . ’ |
| 11 | And getting smaller every second ! |
| 12 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 13 | has got nothing to do with it but she 's working an extra two and a half hours a week and getting half an hour off , you know I mean you , in all |