Example sentences of "[be] get a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not necessarily Brussels but Belgium we 're got a joint venture company and we are sending our expertise to help them sort out the I think it 's the erm the Flanders region anyway Brussels . |
| 2 | Now we 've got the technology from the violin string department to wind the string and polish it all in one operation and we 're getting a brighter-sounding string than before , so we 've started marketing them again . |
| 3 | I think they 're getting a second-rate education . |
| 4 | Because of the kind of job they 're doing or the fact that they 're getting a wee bit more pay ? |
| 5 | Well that 's not so bad if you 're getting a wee bit of help with her but er she 's a |
| 6 | You 're getting a new |
| 7 | Now what I 'm going to hand out to you in various packages er , on the diary , is you 're getting a two page per day diary , erm , and I will go through all of these things in detail , it just helps if I can give you an overview . |
| 8 | How do you know you 're getting a good workout ? |
| 9 | In twenty years time maybe they wo n't feel so self-conscious , but I do n't think we should lost sight of the point that what they 're getting a tiny , tiny sense of is what women , a large number of women , feel all the time . |
| 10 | No wonder you 're getting a buzzing in your ears there 's a big lump of concrete in there . |
| 11 | It was always the intention that there would be a gradual move from that distribution to one based entirely on S S A , but that 's the current year position , where you 're getting a specific grant , and it is distributed on those , broadly those two factors . |
| 12 | Just to go back a stage , to a comment you made there , you you did say that the inner relief road on one of the routes , on one of those routes , would in fact enable environmental benefits to be felt elsewhere in the town , simply because you 're getting a better distribution of the traffic . |
| 13 | No , what I 'm saying is , I do n't think from the accident book you 're getting a true picture because people do n't always report it , they 'll be off several days afterwards . |
| 14 | This is both central management costs and those direct support costs within the divisions , and within the services , that is recharged over provisions of service , so that you 're getting a true cost , in terms of your costs of running the elderly services , the children and family services , so they include both directly man management costs . |
| 15 | Well they 're getting a true language on this , I tell you ! |
| 16 | Yes , it might , it might , but , but , but now you 're getting a little bit , you 're getting a bit too , too sophisticated now , we 're going to come on to that later . |
| 17 | We have made steady progress since the New Year — we have tightened up the defence and now we 're getting a little bit of luck . ’ |
| 18 | We have made steady progress since the New Year — we have tightened up the defence and now we 're getting a little bit of luck . ’ |
| 19 | Yeah , well some of it you 're getting a little bit cheaper |
| 20 | Ah , now we 're getting a little bit toward the meat here . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're getting a proper old woman , John , seeing danger where there is none . |
| 22 | Er we 're getting a few bodies back into the team emptying the treatment room and and things are looking a lot better . |
| 23 | I do n't think I 've heard him speak before , he s got a great Yorkshire accent for a Welsh lad . |
| 24 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
| 25 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 26 | then they stop her this tax what she owes them all , well she 's been getting a hundred and forty seven |
| 27 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
| 28 | So , Mavis at least had been getting a good earful . |
| 29 | yes , yes , she 'll just have an or orange when I came out , she 's been , I 've been getting a few of those , it seems to help a bit |
| 30 | Schoolchildren have been getting a helping hand with their nature studies — from a world famous expert . |