Example sentences of "getting [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The sun was getting low over the sea and in an hour or so it would dip below the horizon , where there were horizontal bars of dark colour .
2 Green 's playtime involved getting pissed with the locals during leisurely lock-ins in the village pub , and intentionally losing touch with the big bad world of the music business .
3 One focus to this resistance has been realistic plot-paradigms which Sukenick constantly subverts in the interest of getting nearer to the real .
4 I say once again because they are getting getting used to the sight of G939 BKV .
5 Another problem is that the tests show practice effects ; that is , for the first day or so of testing , subjects ' performances improve greatly ( and so mask any daily rhythms ) as they are getting used to the tests and are developing their personal ways of tackling them .
6 They were already getting used to the fact that they were very popular .
7 His eyes were getting used to the dim light and , as she emerged into a whole shape under the fanlight , he was more than ever conscious of how beautiful and how youthful she was .
8 In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) .
9 Lately however , many of its opponents have been getting used to the idea .
10 The neck is very good to play ; the balance is about right and I 'm slowly getting used to the weird control arrangement .
11 She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding .
12 Another way of getting used to the machine , ( without any outlay at all ) , is to work for someone else .
13 It took some getting used to the idea that Gentiles were fellow-heirs in God 's kingdom , brothers and sisters in the same family , for there was a great deal of prejudice against the Gentiles .
14 The star has been getting used to the infatuations of Luke-crazed girls .
15 Once your kit is sorted out the first hour is generally spent getting used to the skis , sidestepping up the slope and sliding straight down .
16 I 'd expected to last only a few minutes before my first ducking but the gentle wind was perfect for getting used to the moves .
17 He was getting used to the rooks and had more confidence in the air and in landing among the branches of a tree .
18 I was getting used to the odd feeling of distance , which made it seem as if it was all about someone else , but it was alarming to see how most of the articles highlighted the love-story angle , rather than the conditions in which John was held or the reasons I 'd given as to why the Government should be doing more .
19 But today was Monday , the first and the worst day , getting used to the maverick wind , going as slow as possible up to the corner where she had to say goodbye to Izzy and face it all alone .
20 But after 30 years we are getting used to the idea that we might finish our lives together . ’
21 Seeing that Owen was having difficulties in getting used to the idea , she took him by the hand and pulled him down beside her on the divan .
22 you know , getting used to the feel of it , it 's alright just talking about it or just doing some calculations and just thinking , oh yeah , I can do that now , but you ca n't beat really getting down and drawing the pictures , and
23 In the meantime she 's still getting used to the reality of life on her own .
24 Yes mind you people are getting used to the .
25 Are you getting used to the opposite side of the road now ?
26 Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway .
27 dropped us in the cart then by getting that with the chocolates in .
28 I do n't know which firm they were from , but as well as stopping people from hurting each other , they helped the more diminutive among the crowd on to the stage if they had problems getting free of the moshpit so that they could take a dive .
29 I do n't know which firm they were from , but as well as stopping people from hurting each other , they helped the more diminutive among the crowd on to the stage if they had problems getting free of the moshpit so that they could take a dive .
30 I was ruining his chances of getting free from the chains of misery attaching him to a rotten banlieue de Paris .
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