Example sentences of "getting [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they went down the road the air was getting pleasant . |
| 2 | I keep getting awful pains in my side and it makes me go all hot . |
| 3 | ‘ You must be getting awful cabin-fever stuck in all day , ’ said Emma , as they pushed through the lancing wind . |
| 4 | Lean times were getting leaner . |
| 5 | ‘ If companies are getting leaner , absenteeism becomes a big problem and cracks soon begin to appear , ’ says Tarquin Desoutter of Arthur Andersen . |
| 6 | Are you getting apprehensive about riding as the years tick by ? |
| 7 | Charlie sat sheepishly opposite me and God was getting cranky next to him . |
| 8 | If you are getting low , you should forget all your other problems and concentrate on selecting a good field first . |
| 9 | But in the 1980s we are in a new recession ; morale is getting low , and soon the government will seriously turn to the arts as a ‘ booster ’ . |
| 10 | The small retailer , such as the ‘ corner shop ’ , tends to rely on doing a regular stock-check : this means looking at what goods are on the shelves in the shop and the stockroom , and making a note of any items that are ‘ getting low ’ . |
| 11 | This may be renewed at regular intervals , or when the person responsible points out that it is getting low . |
| 12 | The sun was getting low over the sea and in an hour or so it would dip below the horizon , where there were horizontal bars of dark colour . |
| 13 | Yes , so when you 're getting low on memory the bottom of the screen the little red M E M appears , telling you you 're very low , about to run out , er , so how can you check how much memory you have got when you 're in One Two Three ? |
| 14 | I 'm getting low on a few colours . |
| 15 | If you think we 're getting low on anything , I want to know , please . |
| 16 | You 'll just have to tell me when you 're getting low |
| 17 | Because we 've got to get out one day next week , I 'm getting low on things . |
| 18 | That 's probably why I 've been getting low but it 's something funny . . |
| 19 | She 's getting low is n't she ? |
| 20 | Getting low |
| 21 | That 's why I think people got in debt because they 'd been having things that they could n't afford , I mean er , at one time you was never encouraged to ha er have things , now I mean the minute they see you 're getting low on your , oh have something else , have something else |
| 22 | How do you know when you 're getting low on batteries ? |
| 23 | Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately . |
| 24 | I wound up getting raped and burned with cigarettes . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been using a Les Paul Gold Top for a long time — a ‘ 59 reissue with P-90s — but I 've got this unfortunate habit of getting pissed off onstage and tossing the odd guitar , so rather than risk the Gold Top any more I 've bought one of these new Hamers , which is styled after a '50s Les Paul Special . |
| 26 | Green 's playtime involved getting pissed with the locals during leisurely lock-ins in the village pub , and intentionally losing touch with the big bad world of the music business . |
| 27 | ‘ I would imagine Bob may need help with his album , but I 'm having far too much fun in the playground and getting pissed . |
| 28 | Then in the evening he sat in the ballroom of the hotel where the cast where staying , getting pissed on shorts . |
| 29 | In my studio getting pissed . |
| 30 | ‘ Nervous as fuck — I was certain I would n't be able to get it up , I mean just certain , especially as I 'm still feeling the effects from getting pissed yesterday — and then , well … aroused , I suppose , when … when I realised you were . ’ |