Example sentences of "getting all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Commission is having a hard enough job getting all its members to clear out the same few channels so that Europe can have a paging system which could be used in any of its countries . |
| 2 | I du n no what I 'm doing lying on the floor , getting all dirty . |
| 3 | My sisters and friends loved me ; they were getting all these barely-worn cast-offs . |
| 4 | It 's a seaside town on the west coast of Scotland and it 's getting all these American stars down there all the time . ’ |
| 5 | Getting all this into the tank in the 20 minutes it takes a 50mm ( 2in ) diameter pipe to fill the tank can be physically arduous . |
| 6 | Instead of getting all hot and bothered and self-righteous , how about calling your legal weasels off this morning and coming over later for a meeting . |
| 7 | Dave Peacock of Rondar Boats reckons that £250,000 was spent getting all the boats to Dover . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're getting all this free publicity every year without even holding it . ’ |
| 9 | It is n't easy for any of us today to be sure that we are getting all the vitamins that we need . |
| 10 | My first feeling was one of excitement : I was getting all the pleasure of being in a conspiracy without having to take any of the responsibility for it . |
| 11 | There was also an emphasis on getting all urban and 75 per cent of rural children through seven grades of primary school . |
| 12 | To maximise your income — which may mean , for example , exploring the possibility of a part time job , or checking you are getting all the state benefits to which you are entitled . |
| 13 | A Mathematics class working through sums with half the children in a state of total incomprehension and getting all the examples wrong , while others spend fruitless time doing sum after sum on a process which they had mastered weeks previously ; |
| 14 | I was up afford dawn getting all ready , setting the china , both ours and what we 'd borrowed on the trestles in the orchard , helping Gideon to put the casks of beer in the yard , ready for the men to fill their harvest bottles , and fetching water from the well for the tea . |
| 15 | I would also suggest that one multivitamin tablet be taken daily to make doubly sure that you are getting all the vitamins you need . |
| 16 | A major difficulty is getting all the appropriate people to be available at the required time , which may well run to several days if there are a lot of candidates . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | More surprising , to me , about the present sorry situation , is how the old regimes managed to get away for so long with presiding over such a ragbag and still getting all that advertising ! |
| 19 | Successful netting is about getting all the details right . |
| 20 | When you drink orange juice you are getting all the calories which are present in the orange in the form of sugar , but with none of the fibre filling power . |
| 21 | If you feed your Koi good , proprietary-branded food you can effectively stop worrying — they will be getting all they need . |
| 22 | And when you consider that you 're getting all this for only £450 the competition has got to be sweating . |
| 23 | ‘ I started off by getting all the rock chops together . |
| 24 | A musician can fool himself and say , ‘ Yeah , I 'm doing great because I 'm getting all these write-ups and my career seems to be looking good , ’ but what it boils down to is what you 're actually doing — whether or not you 're breaking any new ground in music . |
| 25 | And yet the fascination among ( overwhelmingly white ) rock music critics with the big , scary black man ( talk about perpetrating stereotypes ! ) survives , to the point where NME is getting all teary-eyed about Brave Little Time-Warner , heroically standing up to the Huns of censorship . |
| 26 | In the end there were certain logistical difficulties in getting all the petition forms back from the outlying islands in time for Helen Martini 's departure for London on Thursday 14 March . |
| 27 | While royal pundits agreed that she appeared to have emerged victorious , getting all she wanted from this month 's separation from Prince Charles , there was one bleak scenario that darkened her horizon . |
| 28 | A child of that age is n't used to getting all that much at once . |
| 29 | I had always hoped that the Buddhist Sangha , meaning the Community of Buddhist monks , might take a hand in the raising of morale , the deepening of the Buddhist emphasis on the Noble Eightfold Path , and in getting all sections of the nation to work together for peace and reconstruction . |
| 30 | They are getting all the profits from us keeping them entertained . ’ |