Example sentences of "[prep] getting [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STOP PRESS : Due to genuine public demand , we are currently in the process of getting together a bunch of our classic compilations for reissue on CD ( NME leaps into the 20th Century ! ) in the near future . |
| 2 | So next time a lazy Sunday rolls around and you ca n't face the performance of getting together a roast , try a vegetable alternative you may even convert grandma ! |
| 3 | erm , for getting up a lot |
| 4 | There is an urgent need for getting out a newsletter — and finding ways of financing it — so that we have an organ of communication with each other . |
| 5 | It reawakened his curiosity , the fact that Blackbeard had been willing to hand them all over for getting back a wallet that otherwise contained only a letter . |
| 6 | But the soldiers thought it was great altogether to be near to Tara , and began to talk about getting up a party to go along and take a look , because would n't it be the finest old inspiration a man could have to see the Bright Palace again . |
| 7 | She was far too quick-witted to complain and endured silently , but she managed to extract a promise of a new hat and a new dress from him , before getting up an hour later to tidy herself and prepare supper . |
| 8 | The mortar men were not trained as Heavy Weapons Troops would be later in the war , but this did not prevent Sergeant Ramsey from getting off a bomb that appeared to go down the hotel chimney , reportedly causing a dozen or more casualties . |
| 9 | If they had been chatting , no matter how lightly , she would have been so absorbed in carefully listening and in getting out a reply through a nervously constricted throat that she would n't have been able to enjoy this wonderful drive . |
| 10 | So how we , so there was no obvious leader and how are we gon na pull ourselves ah ahead , well we have to improve our media coverage and we 've done quite a lot on that , John 's been very successful in getting quite a lot of media coverage both for individuals within the firm and for the the firm as a whole . |