Example sentences of "were getting [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you were getting pissed down Hertford today . |
| 2 | Robinson said : ‘ I thought the fighters were getting close . |
| 3 | When I first started I were getting fourteen shilling a day . |
| 4 | This was our second day in Normandy and I believed we were getting used to it . |
| 5 | His eyes were getting used to the dim light and , as she emerged into a whole shape under the fanlight , he was more than ever conscious of how beautiful and how youthful she was . |
| 6 | Then that went when you 're fifteen , I was fifteen I were getting twelve and six . |
| 7 | Well at that particular time on the bureau , the means test was prevalent then and you were getting twelve shillings a week . |
| 8 | The measures were felt to be particularly harsh by those catholic parents who were getting involved with the All Children Together movement . |
| 9 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 10 | It was fun , and we were getting cocky by New Orleans . |
| 11 | If the family were getting better you would be able to see it . |
| 12 | I thought synthetic stones were getting better these days . ’ |
| 13 | The sparkling alternatives were getting better and better , thanks largely to the overseas investment of champagne houses , and the basic quality of champagne was decidedly dodgy . |
| 14 | While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up . |
| 15 | A recent independent poll on exactly that matter showed that already , within the first year , a significant number of patients of general practitioners recognised that they were getting better services than a year previously . |
| 16 | People were getting tired , and everyone was sitting about . |
| 17 | She held on and held on , but her arms were getting tired and she knew that she would fall in a minute . |
| 18 | 15 years ago Blackburn were getting similar gates to Watford and Oxford . |
| 19 | Given some of the appalling crud that gets sent to rss ( cf Denise ) , I could n't believe you were getting serious grief for it . |
| 20 | The delicious things in the foil-covered dishes had long gone , we were getting drunk nightly on sweet German wine and tins of creamed rice were starting to look attractive , when we finally awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine . |
| 21 | The crowds were getting worse every minute ! |
| 22 | Things were n't getting better in here , they were getting worse ; what had happened in the passage ; I dare n't even think about that . |
| 23 | It was just that things were getting worse , not better as time passed . |
| 24 | The girls were looking for their clothes while the flames were getting worse . |
| 25 | Dr Mowlam said Jeffrey 's asthma and eczema were getting worse as a result of the stress and worry about the money he has to pay for the medication . |
| 26 | ‘ We had to act because results were getting worse and worse . |
| 27 | We had stalked around the woods practising booby traps and trip devices , using thin wire and nails , and were getting good at setting nasty ambushes . |
| 28 | Lean times were getting leaner . |
| 29 | He 'd got thinner and the blue eyes were getting watery , but nothing would persuade him to rest . |
| 30 | By this time trains were getting rare , and two hours might elapse during which time any sign of movement in Duckmanton South box would be looked for . |