Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe that 's what he should be getting now at Everton . |
| 2 | ‘ But they think you should be getting far better . ’ |
| 3 | I agree Gazza 's a brilliant player , who would be an asset for any club , but I really do n't think we should be getting too excited about this — how could we possibly afford him ? |
| 4 | In the meantime , a tourism study should be got underway as quickly as possible to ensure we maximise our influence over the WTB 's thinking . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , we must be getting downstairs or those poor men will think they 're never going to get that glass of sherry , ’ said Ianthe more lightly . |
| 6 | " I 'd guess we must be getting pretty close , Chuck . |
| 7 | ‘ She must be getting past it , ’ I panted . |
| 8 | And I 'm telling Jackie about this , I says , d' ya know , I says , I must be getting bloody worse ! |
| 9 | People must be getting home . |
| 10 | People must be getting home . |
| 11 | It seems the boys from Sun Microsystems Inc , Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc have had their heads together with Intel Corp for some months and must be getting close to agreeing an Application Binary Interface for Unix with the semiconductor house . |
| 12 | Maxim woke with a slightly tender head — those blasted lieutenants and their silly jokes — and the sombre feeling that he must be getting truly old if he could no longer sleep through a normal wakey-wakey in barracks . |
| 13 | It must be getting very obvious , Gina thought , frightened by his frankness and aware that she could n't easily have told someone that . |
| 14 | ‘ Must be getting too old for this globe-trotting lark , or else my mis-spent youth is catching up on me . |
| 15 | I must be getting too old . |
| 16 | ‘ Now you know the truth , the Lady Prioress is no longer needed and Ranulf must be getting as cold as I am . ’ |
| 17 | But he must be got somewhere . |
| 18 | You could n't maybe do the ploughing and that but if you were out spreading dung you or neeps you 'd to just the same as the men and the the man may man might be getting maybe about twenty pound in the half a year and the boys maybe only getting twelve or something like that . |
| 19 | That 's my work permit , but I 've got a letter which I 'll be getting tonight |
| 20 | ‘ And if he 's thinking he 'll be getting away with it he can think again ! |
| 21 | It 'll be getting even more competitive . |
| 22 | I think I 'll be getting home for my dinner Are we straight now then ? |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I 'll be getting home . |
| 24 | I think I 'll be getting home if you do n't mind . |
| 25 | Well the one we 've got above our in fact , there 's one next door to us going for sale at the moment and they 're asking advertised prices else you 'll be getting about fifty thousand on top that 's ours . |
| 26 | Well it 's it 's like you trying to say you 're gon na boil a pan of potatoes and you 've got ta keep turning it off every two minutes , cos it 'll be getting too hot ! |
| 27 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 28 | Capture the winner and you and a companion could be getting away from it all in style . |
| 29 | ‘ I could be getting very fed up with him and his little ways . |
| 30 | The one hundred and fifty-foot Grand Fir was operated on by tree surgeons who were worried it could be getting too big for its roots . |