Example sentences of "been getting [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said well Karen had been getting moody . |
| 2 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 3 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 4 | Lately however , many of its opponents have been getting used to the idea . |
| 5 | The star has been getting used to the infatuations of Luke-crazed girls . |
| 6 | A great many people have been getting good local press publicity for Medau during the summer . |
| 7 | Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately . |
| 8 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |
| 9 | That 's probably why I 've been getting low but it 's something funny . . |
| 10 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 11 | We heard today they were supposed to have been getting engaged to er a seventy year old woman ! |
| 12 | Who 's , the one who 's supposed to have been getting engaged to son , and they call him David . |
| 13 | As she 'd said to Ben when they 'd been getting ready to go to bed last night , you could practically feel the highly charged sexy atmosphere between that pair of love-birds ! |
| 14 | The Jarvis ' from Frimley Stables at Aston Upthorpe have been getting ready for their big day . |
| 15 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 16 | Things have been getting chaotic . |
| 17 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
| 18 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 19 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 20 | If one partner has been getting statutory sick or maternity pay for a continuous period of 13 weeks or more , this is counted as income . |
| 21 | If one partner has been getting statutory sick or maternity pay for a continuous period of 13 weeks or more , this is counted as income . |
| 22 | If one partner has been getting statutory sick or maternity pay for a continuous period of 13 weeks or more , this is counted as income . |
| 23 | He 's been getting acting lessons and , on the phone from Tel Aviv , where he 's shooting a film called The Eleventh Station , he agrees that simple muscled heave is beginning to look a little dated . |
| 24 | ‘ Others have not been getting initial appointments and have not been put on waiting lists because they are so long . |
| 25 | Police have been getting tough with drivers over the new tyre safety legislation which came into force yesterday . |