Example sentences of "[n mass] [be] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll probably notice your fish are getting tattered fins , a whitish furry coat over their bodies and the odd sore appearing . |
| 2 | People are getting fidgety people are leaving can I just . |
| 3 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 4 | Are you anybody Dor I 've got erm Doris here is is there anybody has n't asked I wan na sort of brig to some conclusion because people are getting restless Doris . |
| 5 | I would n't have cared to live under the rule of Fagg myself , but I ca n't say it worried me that these people were getting short rations . |
| 6 | THE Citizens ' Advice Bureaux today said that not enough people were getting social-security benefits they were entitled to , worsening poverty in the province . |
| 7 | For what finding out the truth means is getting true beliefs for ourselves ; and what telling it means is giving our own true beliefs to other people — often of course ( though as we shall see , by no means always ) by making true statements . |