Example sentences of "was getting [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By day 22 he was getting up at the ‘ correct ’ time ( that is , his morning and real morning coincided ) , but had lost a whole day . |
| 2 | The wind was getting up , rattling against the wooden shutters , and forcing twigs to scratch against the window panes . |
| 3 | The wind was getting up and Yanto realised he had a problem . |
| 4 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 5 | McCarthy 's bid to become the Democratic nominee for president was getting up steam , and his following included the liberal Hollywood establishment , among them Paul Newman , Joanne Woodward , Robert Redford and Warren Beatty . |
| 6 | And while all this brouhaha was going on Richard Harris was getting up Heston 's famously broken nose . |
| 7 | About 11 p. m. he was aware that the wind was getting up and was buffeting the wooden signalbox . |
| 8 | The next thing I remember was getting up and falling down again because my feet were numb , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ He tackled a player who was getting up after a challenge from someone else — on the touchline . |
| 10 | She timed this operation very carefully , applying the glue just as her father was getting up from the breakfast table . |
| 11 | A wind was getting up , and even as I stood there , the lower stars were obscured by drifting darkness . |
| 12 | The heavy thudding steps that meant her mother was getting up . |
| 13 | A wind was getting up . |
| 14 | But Pat was getting up . |
| 15 | The wind was getting up , too — they heard it bluster round the house , flinging rain on the windows . |
| 16 | And then suddenly it was midnight , a clock delicately chiming outside in the hall , and she was getting up , with him protesting — really quite fervently protesting . |
| 17 | But Lugh would rise above it all , and would not bother to listen to complaints about who was getting larger helpings of stew , or who was having the most comfortable sleeping quarters , or even who was getting up a bit later than everyone else . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll be down soon , ’ I said , and rocked to and fro in the bed to make noises which might make it sound as though I was getting up . |
| 19 | Now he was getting up and coming round the table towards her . |
| 20 | At last it was over and Lori was getting up . |
| 21 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 22 | Well I was getting up early . |
| 23 | Yes after Lucy about , er yes that was what I was getting around to , by that time of course I should be erm |
| 24 | Honours were n't even and though time was getting on , I needed to climb a route . |
| 25 | Even when their vet warned them that Lizzie was getting on , they did n't realise just how much she had aged . |
| 26 | He was a nice person and I think he was genuinely interested in how David was getting on , although he could n't get him any bookings . |
| 27 | Mrs Cartwright was getting on in years , shapeless as a stuffed pillow , hands and arms scarred with the shiny tissue of a myriad burns , and eyes seemingly closed against a lifetime of hissing steam . |
| 28 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 29 | It was getting on for ‘ good night ’ time when I fell in with an old lady who complained that the naughty children of Sligo pulled her ivy down and swore at her . |
| 30 | She had been the toast of Berlin but she was getting on by now when one evening she gave a Lieder recital in the Berlin Philharmonie . |