Example sentences of "getting [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 2 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 3 | OK , by now you 've lost valuable time and probably irritated the entire panel by dithering instead of being sure of what you 're going to say , quite apart from getting on with the actual pieces you have learned . |
| 4 | How are you getting on with your new housemates ? ’ |
| 5 | However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead . |
| 6 | Some have swivel seats to make getting on and off easier . |
| 7 | By the end of the 1730s Truman 's Brewery had getting on for 300 publicans on the books , though less than a tenth were tied houses actually owned by the brewery . |
| 8 | Honours were n't even and though time was getting on , I needed to climb a route . |
| 9 | Even when their vet warned them that Lizzie was getting on , they did n't realise just how much she had aged . |
| 10 | ‘ We are better served as an independent company getting on with our own plans without the involvement of any Australian freebooters , ’ said Mr Holland . |
| 11 | From a family of fish merchants , he has served on Billingsgate committees and all but despairs of ‘ them ever getting on with the real business of selling fish ’ . |
| 12 | Of course there are allegations of favouritism , affecting both getting on to the list and then getting ‘ placed ’ afterwards . |
| 13 | I wondered how they were getting on . |
| 14 | I wonder how he is getting on ! |
| 15 | The manager has to be honest , competent and use common sense , while getting on with the artist . |
| 16 | I was never any good at getting on with people . |
| 17 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 18 | ‘ So I want to know how the investigation is getting on . |
| 19 | ‘ CONGRATULATIONS , ’ said one of my Welsh male colleagues ‘ on getting on to the assisted places scheme . ’ |
| 20 | I mooned about the house , not getting on well with writing , nor for that matter with reading . |
| 21 | He was a nice person and I think he was genuinely interested in how David was getting on , although he could n't get him any bookings . |
| 22 | ‘ How are you getting on over there ? ’ he asked , cautiously . |
| 23 | ‘ She is — was — extremely competent , as well as very good at getting on with people , which is of course critical to jobs like that . |
| 24 | There was just time for England and Australia to fit in the final Test before getting on with the serious business — serious to those for whom dollar signs are important — of dashing round the country playing game after game after game of the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup . |
| 25 | For the two women , Bumface 's dismissal merited no more than perfunctory laughter and a slight impatience with Charles for not getting on with the business of bottle opening . |
| 26 | How are you getting on with the plebs ? |
| 27 | Mrs Cartwright was getting on in years , shapeless as a stuffed pillow , hands and arms scarred with the shiny tissue of a myriad burns , and eyes seemingly closed against a lifetime of hissing steam . |
| 28 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 29 | ‘ It gives you the ‘ luxury ’ of getting on with what you 're really good at . |
| 30 | Creative planting Nigel Colborn tells us how he 's getting on with his TV Gardeners ' World plot at Barndale . |