Example sentences of "getting [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
| 2 | John Taub and others at the University of California School of Medicine required subjects to sleep an hour or more longer than usual , by putting them to bed at either II p.m. or I a.m. , but getting them up at the same time — 9 a.m . |
| 3 | and getting them up from the cellars . |
| 4 | Getting them round here is good . |
| 5 | I mean if you go down Cornmarket in a normal summer , you can hardly hear anything but erm American voices , so it just shows that there is a vast potential there , but it 's getting them here . |
| 6 | The idea that John was trying out his ideas in private first , getting them carefully developed before he actually faced his cast , is confirmed by another letter to Hanns in which he wrote , ‘ I have written the first record , and am starting rehearsals for S. T . |
| 7 | It 's time we were getting them on again . |
| 8 | Ooh you 're getting them on . |
| 9 | You , erm , I use buses and cars and I use a bike as well , er , er I think that , we used to have a car and I stopped using it , I used it , we had it when the kids were small and I found it really good for getting them around and it really was necessary to young mothers but their big now and I do n't have to chauffeur . |
| 10 | It was also close to the end of the shift and this legal reduction prevented them having to ‘ go over ’ , as well as getting them out of considerable paperwork later , and road traffic accidents are particularly disliked because of the amount of paperwork they involve . |
| 11 | And how very understated and very British , with every man of its crew trying not to show how pleased he was or how embarrassed , and quietly thanking the good Lord for getting them out of the mess in the Bay , and if He would n't mind , could some other perishing submarine have the next thirty-eight ? |
| 12 | The car allowance , a key item in reporters ' lives and in getting them out of the office — was fixed at Option B — 15p a mile . |
| 13 | With such an effective way of victualling her young , the mother is able to retain them within her until they are so big that their sheer size makes them a burden and the mechanics of getting them out of her body becomes a real problem . |
| 14 | She had only three members of her immediate family left in Bosnia but did not hold out much hope of getting them out . |
| 15 | Getting them out into the open means that they can be robbed of their numbing effect , and turned instead into potent sources of energy . |
| 16 | Getting them out of bed must have been a miracle . |
| 17 | I also pay tribute to the professionalism of the emergency services , who naturally faced difficulties in getting to the injured and in getting them out of the tunnel for treatment . |
| 18 | Let's say first of all that Ted has done jolly well in getting them out , and everyone deserves er , er you know , he deserves a tremendous vote of thanks from everyone . |
| 19 | ‘ This is ludicrous because we are responsible for getting them out of any real trouble , should it arise . |
| 20 | Kelburne , winners of the title for the past three years are always at their best when forced into a tight corner and so on this occasion Magee was the man responsible for getting them out of jail . |
| 21 | Is it hard getting them out ? |
| 22 | And it can be done on the morning after the end of the previous month , whereas manually our gentleman on the tall stool might have spent at least a week preparing it , and getting them out , and that 's a week that you have n't got your money in . |
| 23 | Erm now you 're getting them much more er s ooh sophisticated you know ? |
| 24 | the only thing again that I 'm thinking of what if we gets them out of the caravan and we gets them into the car and we 're getting them in and out here and then we gets them back into the car to take them back over and in to the caravan , what if we rip the bloody things ? |
| 25 | David 's getting them in . |
| 26 | And he 's just getting them in . |
| 27 | Mothers no doubt think they are doing the very best for their children , getting them off to a good night 's sleep . |
| 28 | But there 's two ways of getting them off if they do latch on to you , one is to burn them off with a cigarette or a match and the other way is to use rock salt , and if you put rock salt on them they then just come off so that 's a little bit erm more humane for the leeches but it depends what you feel about them really as to whether you want to give them another chance . |
| 29 | What chance have they got of getting them all right when they can only inspect houses from the road outside ? ’ |
| 30 | No not now , we 'll do it later , right number sixteen , succeed , succeed , I hope you will in succeed in getting them all right , succeed |