Example sentences of "getting a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A R. So getting a good part in the end of term productions was much more competitive for you , Dulcie ? |
| 2 | It is quite clear that in securing contracts with the private sector , and getting a good price , some authorities have been quicker off the mark than others , leaving the remainder at the mercy of spot prices and the sort of fee-hiking that can result . |
| 3 | ‘ Van Tromp going about to please his masters , ships at sea , getting a good wetting ’ , painted in 1844 , belongs to Royal Holloway college , situated on the edge of Windsor Great Park . |
| 4 | Van Tromp going about to please his masters , ships at sea , getting a good wetting , was painted in 1844 and belongs to the university 's Royal Holloway College . |
| 5 | So , Mavis at least had been getting a good earful . |
| 6 | Armed with your bridging loan , you are effectively a cash buyer , not caught up in a chain , and you can use this position to your advantage , demanding and getting a good discount . |
| 7 | Thus in our ‘ suicide ’ drama the adolescents , instead of being in role as members of the family concerned , could have been neighbours or reporters getting a good story . |
| 8 | Is it realistic to expect junior house officers to admit to their consultants that they are overburdened when their career progression depends on getting a good reference ? |
| 9 | She was getting a good response from her students . |
| 10 | and I know it 's too close but I 'm still getting a good wash . |
| 11 | It is difficult to characterize such relations as ‘ capitalist ’ , or to regard them as oppressive : most of the rich men of the Zuwaya managed their businesses in this way , getting a good return on money laid out , but creating wealth for poorer fellow tribesmen and a few others in the process . |
| 12 | ‘ We have to get back to a position where investors want to invest in unquoted companies and believe they 're still getting a good return , but I do n't think that will be the 30% they might have been promised . ’ |
| 13 | I had set my sights on getting a good position in training so that I would be sent to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes . |
| 14 | Aggie had mice , Nellie recalled , but the woman could not bear the thought of getting a good mouser . |
| 15 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |
| 16 | Clearly the mines were once again working , and a year later , Gibson wrote again to Sir Michael in London , advising that there were 17 or 18 men constantly at work and that they were getting a good quantity of ore … about 15 tons were then ready for weighing . |
| 17 | Someone said I ought to think about getting a good night 's sleep . |
| 18 | There was to be a very full programme of lectures on the Saturday , and a formal dinner , so no doubt people were getting a good night 's sleep in readiness . |
| 19 | For all of us getting a good night 's deep sleep is important . |
| 20 | ‘ To be honest , I 'm more concerned about getting a good night 's sleep , ’ says a pregnant woman , who 's working full-time at a demanding job . |
| 21 | How do you know you 're getting a good workout ? |
| 22 | . But still it was er one way of getting a good meal , everyday . |
| 23 | The importance of getting a good start now becomes obvious , since if you fall only a few metres behind in the first minute after the start you fall into everyone else 's dirty wind and drop even further back . |
| 24 | And a production should not just be a matter of getting a good notice and leaving it to go to seed slowly . |
| 25 | ‘ Ross Perot is getting a good deal more attention than he deserves because there 's a perceived vacuum , ’ says Tsongas . |
| 26 | Bargain-hunters flocked to the stores , believing they were getting a good deal only to find they had paid the normal price or , in some cases , more . |
| 27 | For the advertiser who is concerned as to whether he or she is getting a good deal from an agency or media specialist , companies such as Media Audits provide a service that compares the buying performance of different advertisers and their agencies in similar markets and media . |
| 28 | Er it did seem , it did seem , it would seem to a quite a lot of people that they were getting a good deal and they would accept that , and they would , relatively speaking , they were getting a good deal . |
| 29 | Er it did seem , it did seem , it would seem to a quite a lot of people that they were getting a good deal and they would accept that , and they would , relatively speaking , they were getting a good deal . |
| 30 | 4.3 We would therefore submit that if anyone is getting a good deal it is most certainly not our members . |