Example sentences of "get big " in BNC.

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1 Baby Jesus was real poor , so he had to grow up on a farm and that , and when he got bigger he went round with some friends telling everyone about God , and then he died .
2 But all it did was to create a bigger gap that just got bigger and bigger .
3 Well , by the 9th we still held our two-stroke lead , and slowly but surely the galleries got bigger and bigger .
4 It did n't seem quite the same , anyway , as I got bigger .
5 At first this was a slow process but as the group got bigger the church planting gained in momentum .
6 Hank Garland came into the picture later on , and the band got bigger
7 ‘ Yes , the band got bigger .
8 It got bigger .
9 Well then as the unit got bigger , as I said , the room at the offices in the Lock was n't big enough so we moved from there to Alma Green Infant School , that 's the school now they used for all kinds of social activities during the day and th on that side by the car park .
10 They got bigger and bigger and they were there all the time .
11 Even as the company got bigger , the familial atmosphere on which Virgin had been built in the early Seventies stayed strong , a flame that was kept alight by those who had been with Virgin since the earliest days , until it became a myth , self-perpetuating and strong enough to touch any newcomer to the organisation , strong enough to have even Richard Branson in its grip .
12 The waves got bigger , and the people on the rock moved closer together .
13 The woman 's eyes got bigger and bigger with surprise as each thing was taken from the pram .
14 Did you find that through the years the classes got bigger ?
15 We found then that the bigger the objective lens was the more light could be got and the bigger you could make it , so as I got bigger and got er the chance of making my own lenses and building up lenses of various kinds , I found that I could get quite a good magnification .
16 We had reorganisations there , you know , every time they had a reorganisation a patch got bigger , and the workload got heavier , er , and in the last ten months of my period there , I did sort of thirty five thousand miles and a job as well , so I thought , blimey I 'm into mortality tables , if somebody else 's car had got my name written on it , so I decided to take a change .
17 John Hill says he started racing with a ski boat and then when the engines got bigger he had to have a go at powerboating which he really enjoys …
18 we had no idea how big the story was to become , it started off as just a robbery and just got bigger and bigger in the following weeks
19 Many stores were as small as 500 sq ft — about the size of the corner shops which they still resembled — but as the big boys got bigger the small shops went to the wall .
20 You know she just got bigger dog .
21 so they refused to do it up , well the result was over the years the pot holes down to the sites got bigger and they 're so far off the road from
22 The holes got bigger on top of the hill so I rang them again saying they 're dangerous for cyclist for a motorbike could have an accident .
23 As in the case of the sauropod dinosaurs they seem to have got bigger and bigger during the Cretaceous — some of these later pterosaurs are supposed to have had wing spans exceeding lo metres , which would make them almost comparable to a man-made glider .
24 The big man has got bigger , and the small man smaller .
25 ‘ And it 's got bigger . ’
26 Bougies were inserted into the urethra , and these got bigger and bigger , inflicting great pain and considerable nausea .
27 Erm unless it 's actually a meeting that you 're recording use the other things cos they 're just they 've got bigger spaces for writing down what people 's first words were and stuff like that ,
28 If you 've got bigger muscles and the will to use them , the others have to go along with you .
29 She 's got bigger .
30 However the males have got bigger canine teeth and certainly in most mammals er for instance horses , males have big bigger canine teeth most primates .
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