Example sentences of "was getting [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 2 | I think I was getting nearly five pound a week by then . |
| 3 | He was getting nearer and nearer and was almost upon them . |
| 4 | The Young King 's opportunity was getting nearer , but if he were to show his hand at last , he needed an excuse , a justification for the war which would make sense in his father 's eyes and just might lead him to condone the attack on Richard . |
| 5 | Mr Pattison said : ‘ They started to push her from behind and she could hear that she was getting nearer and nearer the River Skerne . |
| 6 | The miners ' strike failed to evolve into a veritable civil war ( although , beneath the veneer of the tabloid media , it was getting pretty close ) and a wave of pessimism was matched only by the resolve of the hardline few . |
| 7 | I was getting pretty furious about it . |
| 8 | She was getting pretty good at inventing details for him to note down . |
| 9 | That 's why I stuck all the posters here think the back issues loosening up a bit it was getting pretty tight . |
| 10 | Ben Johnson was getting closer to the man who would be his great rival , winning the bronze behind Sam Graddy but ahead of two British sprinters , Mike McFarlane and Donovan Reid . |
| 11 | The barking was getting closer by the second and we could hear the hunters whistling and shouting orders to the dogs , and the sound of the boar scrunching dried leaves and snapping dead branches as it hurtled down through the trees . |
| 12 | This meant that the thing , the maker of the noise , the galloping creature , was getting closer . |
| 13 | The siren was getting closer . |
| 14 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 15 | He was getting closer and I was thinking , Christ does he know about me and Yvonne ? |
| 16 | He was getting closer and still shouting : ‘ No jumped-up photographer comes to this set and uses my image without my saying so , you hearing me , you hearing me right ? |
| 17 | Whenever she looked round the tall , robed figure was getting closer . |
| 18 | But the dogs were very fast and I was getting closer and closer to him . |
| 19 | Their wedding was getting closer all the time . |
| 20 | I was getting closer and closer to my goal of 8 ½ st . |
| 21 | The steady clatter of the man 's heavy shoes was getting closer . |
| 22 | He was getting closer . |
| 23 | ‘ The shelling was getting closer , so a decision was made that to protect the civilians and to protect the soldiers ’ own lives , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Also this young police constable was getting closer . |
| 25 | The implication was that with a bit more happening in the sack , hubby would n't have felt he was getting past it and tried to prove his virility by punting up the north face of the Thames . |
| 26 | The scene was getting distinctly sultry . |
| 27 | Then a few moments later he bemoaned — at great length — how London was getting increasingly ‘ homogenized and pasteurized ’ , milking the issue for all it was worth . |
| 28 | The campaign was snowballing and life was getting increasingly hectic . |
| 29 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 30 | I 've suddenly remembered that the programme that really infuriated me , when I was tired and wet and Paddy Ashdown was getting away with sheer murder before my eyes , and the polls looked terminal for the Tories , and I was beginning to think that the whole thing was rigged against us , was not the BBC at all . |