Example sentences of "getting as " in BNC.
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| 1 | God Almighty , he was getting as bad as Maurice Cullam ! |
| 2 | It was sent after bondholders complained they were not getting as much financial information as other lenders . |
| 3 | The foreigners were preoccupied with profit and getting as much as they could as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | Do you also remember another New Testament scholar at Manchester who flipped and declared that the word ‘ Jesus ’ was really a code for a sacred mushroom and the Bible was a do-it-yourself manual for getting as high as the stars without leaving your body ? |
| 5 | E 's getting as bad as thee . ’ |
| 6 | But just when I was feeling at home in the loin-cloth and boot polish , and when I 'd learned my lines before anyone else and was getting as competent as a little orangutan on the scaffolding , I saw that our conflicts had n't ended . |
| 7 | Our own experience is that we have never yet planted a congregation without each person who is married getting as clear a call to the work as their partner . |
| 8 | Successful hedonists are , for short periods , very sensitive to the feelings of those with whom they talk , drink or make love , postpone the question ‘ Am I getting as much as I am giving ? ’ , and do not revert to egoism until the party is over . |
| 9 | So there are three factors which may stop women getting as good value from credit as men : less awareness of credit costs , and of their rights ; credit-worthiness indicators ( such as employment and housing status ) which tend to be associated with unreliable payers and to be more common with women than with men ; and perhaps occasional outright discrimination . |
| 10 | Woosnam added : ‘ I always seem to play well in this , I work hard at getting as many under par as possible to help my partner . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was n't getting as much attention as I wanted , so I kind of got into Dmitry 's music just to get his attention , and to be around him more ’ — Lady Miss Kier |
| 12 | She finally got involved for the oldest reason of all : ‘ I was n't getting as much attention as I wanted , so I kind of got into it just to get his attention , and to be around him more . ’ |
| 13 | Meanwhile , less than a mile away , Therapy ? are happily getting as drunk as newts in a British style pub bar celebrating yours truly 's latest bastard birthday . |
| 14 | You will not be driven like the commercial nursery into getting as many as you can per acre ( hectare ) , and can therefore afford to be a little more generous with spacing to give yourself room to move about more comfortably . |
| 15 | Is , you know , is actually erm getting as much information we can about the people who are using the service and erm and making sure it stays , making a case for it . |
| 16 | Then you can decide to live your life fully — getting as much out as you put in . |
| 17 | For me , the whole point of acting is using different aspects of yourself , and getting as far away from yourself as you can . |
| 18 | Several people mentioned that getting as far as the interview was the main problem . |
| 19 | what you see the idea is to get Kerry getting as much benefit from school as possible so you 're not having to pay me |
| 20 | Well at that time I was getting as much as ten bob a week . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're not getting as much milk from them as usual , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ If it was n't for that poor bugger , I would be getting as pissed as a bishop 's fart in the Crossed Keys and you would be back in your decrepit church feeding that bloody cat or watching your bloody stars ! |
| 23 | ‘ Now you know the truth , the Lady Prioress is no longer needed and Ranulf must be getting as cold as I am . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 25 | She 's already invested so much that , and the offspring has got a self interest for getting as much as it can , so their self interest coincides . |
| 26 | Nahdah candidates , standing as independents in the April elections , won an estimated 13 per cent of the national vote , getting as much as 30 per cent in Tunis and other cities . |
| 27 | Rubbish , said the voice , you 're getting as hysterical as Lou … |
| 28 | By this time I was getting as bad as Danny . |
| 29 | The TV high in the corner was tuned to KWEX and the Spanish commentator was getting as frantic as the fighters . |
| 30 | Usually , however , you will be concerned with getting as close as possible to what the author of the text ( not a later editor or printer ) wanted it to be . |