Example sentences of "getting [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting on in the art world has a lot to do with having the right contacts . ’ |
| 2 | It is time to go downstairs , to see how Deirdre is getting on in the kitchen , to make sure the butlers are not drinking too much . |
| 3 | Many teachers and heads felt that getting on in the primary sector required verbal and practical allegiance to certain quite specific canons of ‘ good primary practice ’ , and that anything less , let alone any open challenging of the orthodoxies in question , could damage their professional prospects . |
| 4 | Owen asked how John Postlethwaite was getting on in the ministry . |
| 5 | And she was saying how well my granddaughter was getting along in the University . |
| 6 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 7 | We are just under one inch taller on getting up in the morning than we are on going to bed at night . |
| 8 | ‘ The only thing I 'm worried about is getting up in the morning , ’ said yesterday 's driver , who asked not to be named . |
| 9 | He even put the woman 's view to a certain extent : ‘ Miriam knew that their marriage was dead , but took comfort in the old rituals of going to bed together and getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 10 | Shape of gentleman getting up in the afternoon |
| 11 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 12 | It means getting up in the early hours to be ready to board a coach at around 6.30am that will transport them to the South Coast , then bring them back again , arriving home at around midnight . |
| 13 | ‘ It would make it worth getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 14 | Exercise consisted of getting up in the morning , reaching for a cigarette and climbing into the car . |
| 15 | Cissie hated going to bed , and she hated getting up in the morning , but she thoroughly enjoyed lazing in the bath , and finding every excuse not to say goodnight . |
| 16 | A job gives structure and a reason for getting up in the morning : it gives human contact with colleagues , it gives ‘ busyness ’ . |
| 17 | Even getting up in the morning is difficult for some . |
| 18 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 19 | Masklin supposed it was the machine 's equivalent of a nome getting up in the morning . |
| 20 | ‘ Poor Laura — you never were any good at getting up in the morning , were you ? ’ he mocked softly , taking the clattering cup and saucer from her shaking hands , before leaning forward to brush a stray tendril of hair from her brow . |
| 21 | I have to use sleeping tablets to help me sleep at night because I 'm dreading getting up in the morning in case anything 's happened further . |
| 22 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 23 | but he , he 's at that age now where I could have another kid and look after it quite easily if I had one , but I do n't wan na go through , not the pregnancy , but I do n't want to go through all the babies and getting up in the night and , one that 'll come out six months old |
| 24 | Aha that 's what I do , it 's like getting up in the morning Mark . |
| 25 | No I count up to ten , I keep getting up in the middle of the night to weigh myself |
| 26 | So you 'll getting up in the morning ? |
| 27 | But psychologically what happens is , eventually they say well , what 's the point of getting up in the morning , so they lie in till ten o'clock . |
| 28 | Getting out in the open air on a bike can be an exhilarating experience . |
| 29 | Of course now it 's warm enough to start getting out in the garden , what could be better than to take a selection of water toys to play with in the paddling pool outside ? |
| 30 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |