Example sentences of "getting a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 2 | Getting a good set of prints is not cheap , although there are less expensive rates for students and most actors have a stock of postcard size prints that they can send off at the merest rumour of work . |
| 3 | And a production should not just be a matter of getting a good notice and leaving it to go to seed slowly . |
| 4 | A R. So getting a good part in the end of term productions was much more competitive for you , Dulcie ? |
| 5 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |
| 6 | I had two additional problems : my age and getting a reference from someone . |
| 7 | You 're getting a paunch , did you know that ? ’ |
| 8 | Sheila 's havin' a good time and she 's getting a bit of money too . |
| 9 | They are paid vast amounts of cash , to wear a little sticky label on their shirts ; even getting a hair cut is big money . |
| 10 | I must admit I was getting a trifle worried but then I met them . |
| 11 | He has arrived from abroad , yet another bird of passage , ‘ in the hope of getting a job building our railway bridge ’ . |
| 12 | THE SHARE price of Lincat Group , maker of commercial catering equipment , is getting a boost after being toppled from its perch of 175p this summer when news of continuing problems at three subsidiaries filtered through to the City . |
| 13 | But Mr Parkinson was more concerned with getting a cheer at a party conference than with implementing the policies the country needed , he said .. |
| 14 | One is that Mr Lawson has not yet succeeded in getting a handle on domestic demand , and the signs of success this summer were misleading . |
| 15 | Getting a Tory to say what he believes — and , to make it worse , what he knows you know he believes — is about as daunting as drawing teeth . |
| 16 | He wrote Paddy , published in Cyril Connelly 's Horizon about 1946 , and let them all have it , which meant he 'd even less chance of getting a job after that . |
| 17 | One admits to getting a little fed up with Mr Morton 's tendency to gloss over Eurotunnel 's problems , insisting that almost whatever happens it will all come right in the end . |
| 18 | ‘ We are more than capable of getting a draw . |
| 19 | Small wonder , therefore , that egg producers feel they are not getting a fair deal . |
| 20 | Simon Lee , of Stratford-upon-Avon , said that although the party machine was ‘ getting a little bit tired ’ , every member should accept their share of the blame for recent dents to the party image . |
| 21 | However , car buyers should be aware that all kinds of discounts are available on new cars and that an interest-free loan for 75 per cent for two years might still work out more expensive than borrowing elsewhere and getting a large cash discount on the purchase price . |
| 22 | Investors are getting a real return of 4.5 per cent on their cash . |
| 23 | You 're here to see us acting naturally and I do n't see why we should change , because then you 're not getting a true picture , are you ? |
| 24 | And when experience teaches that the chances of getting a ‘ biggy ’ are faint , this expectation can be offset by the telling of these sorts of stories . |
| 25 | The Germans were certainly getting a pasting . |
| 26 | The other , whom I recognised at once from the camp at Southampton and from the training centre at Achnacarry was sitting u– on the stretcher cursing his bad luck in getting a piece of shrapnel in his leg . |
| 27 | The bastards are getting a taste of their own medicine . ’ |
| 28 | As I close the diary I notice that it 's getting a bit grubby . |
| 29 | I was always involved in tree planting and general countryside employment before getting a job as Field Officer when Scottish Conservation Projects came into existence in 1984 . |
| 30 | Jones had then worked closely with the docks employer , Lord Aldington , in getting a new wages agreement for the docks including a settlement for the problem of casual labour which drew on him the fire of many militant shop stewards amongst the stevedores . |