Example sentences of "[prep] [be] get [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The only thing I 'm thinking of is to get that desire back into the side .
2 Predictably , you seem to be getting all the flak for the Bill Davis/Alan Coren years of stagnation and complacency that led to the Punch you inherited a while back .
3 Michael was livid that Hemmings , in the cloakrooms , seemed to be getting all the way with one of the girls while Crawford/Ingram was off in a corner with another girl — ‘ simply practising how long we could kiss ’ . ’
4 erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ?
5 ‘ I must say , ’ said Elinor , sipping a gin and tonic , ‘ you seem to be getting some good vibes .
6 Christian Hosoi , who was meant to be getting some sort of subsidiary company through Vision , is now working to get a sub-company set up through H Street : this will eventually be similar to Chris Miller 's Planet Earth .
7 ONCE UPON A TIME the Universities had representatives in parliament ; it is only now through the Conference of University Convocations and Graduate Associations ( CUCGA , a national body in which Salford has a high profile , that works to protect and enhance higher education ) that we seem to be getting some clout back .
8 Ah , but you 're going to be getting some extra police officers by taking them off er , paperwork , er you 're gon na get two thousand three hundred I see in the press , well that as shown , that of course will be twenty three , but if anybody here thinks the Chief Constable 's gon na produce twenty three new police officers through reductions in paperwork and through the other initiatives the Home Secretary has announced , well I do n't believe them , and we shall have to wait and see .
9 ‘ Does n't look right to me , and it does n't seem to be getting any nearer . ’
10 But erm , the position at the moment is that , I mean , the situation does n't seem to be getting any worse .
11 arrangements , she seems to be getting more and more
12 somebody 's got to be getting more money out of it basically
13 ‘ I feel very flattered to be getting this award because it is a recognition of the work done by the voluntary sector in Stockport . ’
14 Are n't we supposed to be getting this sort of thing from Carry On Columbus next month ?
15 ‘ His lapses appear to be getting fewer . ’
16 we 're gon na be getting all his marbles getting ready for going to the church .
17 Did n't even know you were gon na be getting another one .
18 And but , very shortly the branches are gon na be getting some more appropriate , and it 's gon na be a lot more that needs to be se sort of kept on overnight .
19 It 's it 's not about being able to get rid of them totally and we agree that we need some sort of level of arousal it 's being able to perform despite them to use that arousal to put into an effective presentation , and that 's what this two days is about is getting those butterflies for you to fly in formation .
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