Example sentences of "be getting [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's my work permit , but I 've got a letter which I 'll be getting tonight |
| 2 | ‘ She must be getting past it , ’ I panted . |
| 3 | This becomes increasingly valuable during the final 16 weeks of the course , when our trainees will be getting closer and closer to the point where they become capable of managing the section , initially for the odd late shift , but very definitely with a view to being able to run the department outright by their final two weeks . |
| 4 | Whatever it was , it was very tinkly and repetitive , and often , just as he seemed to be getting somewhere , Meredith broke off and started all over again . |
| 5 | Just at the moment I seem to be getting somewhere , I 'm dragged off the case . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 'll soon be getting somewhere . ’ |
| 7 | you may be getting somewhere near . |
| 8 | If only , all our churches could do that we would really be getting somewhere ! |
| 9 | Here are four to be getting along with : Melvyn Bragg 's Lake District , John Mortimer 's Tuscany , Jilly Cooper 's Somerset , Kingsley Amis 's Stomach . |
| 10 | 5 Which batsman seems to be getting steadily better ? |
| 11 | If he had been simply playing the girl game , she reasoned , he would be getting steadily more intimate , and here he is reverting to deference . |
| 12 | So we must be getting round to Sue 's question . |
| 13 | we only now seem to be getting round to recognising it . |
| 14 | ‘ Should n't Sandra and Gary be getting up ? |
| 15 | Well he 'd be getting up about oh shortly after five in the morning , to er feed his horses , muck out the stable , and groom them . |
| 16 | I 'll be getting up early anyway . |
| 17 | Erm certainly I think all of our quarry , the quarry , I think we were overwhelmed with the support because it was really in our place that the dispute started and a lot of other people who I 'd spoken to you know they they were amazed at the support we received and , seemed to be the shyer the people you know the , some of the lads they never spoke much at lodge meetings , but after a while they 'd be getting up and saying their pieces and , you know I think it 's just because you knew you had backing , and people helping and urging you on , advising you , and the union helping and you know they leant over backwards in various fields to help us . |
| 18 | him but er he might not be up in time anyway , cos he 's got a lot of work to do and he thinks he might be up all night tonight , in which case , he wo n't be getting up very early in the morning . |
| 19 | It seemed to be getting nearer and nearer but we were still pretty cheerful . |
| 20 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 21 | ‘ The message might be getting through . |
| 22 | The NRA argues that women are the first victims of the collapse of the criminal-justice system , and the message seems to be getting through : gun-dealers say that their fastest-growing market is among women . |
| 23 | At last she seemed to be getting through to him . |
| 24 | After years of increasingly dramatic campaigns the message does appear to be getting through … |
| 25 | But back at the police lecture room , the message seemed to be getting through . |
| 26 | The ever loyal Daily Telegraph would come closest to paralleling the Conservative Party though even here its organizational links with the party are weak and may be getting even weaker as a result of its new Canadian ownership . |
| 27 | It 'll be getting even more competitive . |
| 28 | We ought to be seeking to build on the quite hopeful developments , in the greater Beirut area anyway , over the last few days , but instead we appear to be getting even more dog in the manger in our attitude towards Syria . |
| 29 | NOW THAT Lord Cholmondeley has sold the Holbein to the National Gallery , he will be getting on with his film career , I am told . |
| 30 | This time we have by no means exhausted the resources of invention , but these possibilities contain perhaps enough plausibility to be getting on with . |