Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] getting a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Tommy , I 'm getting a six , I 'm getting a six weeks on a B reg
2 now how did I do it ? not like that obviously oh that 's it , I 'm getting a fifty percent success rate of whole ones to small ones here
3 I 'm getting a first-hand lesson !
4 I 'm getting a little bit disturbed .
5 ‘ Obviously I 'm pleased that I 'm getting a few winners , ’ he told me , ‘ but I would still like to have more mounts .
6 I was getting a new typewriter .
7 I was getting a dropped stitch in same place , every time I used it .
8 I was getting a bad feeling deep down about what I was saying .
9 Then a reaction set in , I thought I was getting a silly schoolgirl hero-pash on him , and the other thing began to happen .
10 Well I 'm sorry like but I was getting a few interruptions on the landing
11 I was told I was getting a direct order , but I refused to pack and asked to see the governor .
12 Up you get , ooh you 're a big lump now , you are getting a big girl .
13 How do you know you 're getting a good workout ?
14 Now what I 'm going to hand out to you in various packages er , on the diary , is you 're getting a two page per day diary , erm , and I will go through all of these things in detail , it just helps if I can give you an overview .
15 Just to go back a stage , to a comment you made there , you you did say that the inner relief road on one of the routes , on one of those routes , would in fact enable environmental benefits to be felt elsewhere in the town , simply because you 're getting a better distribution of the traffic .
16 It was always the intention that there would be a gradual move from that distribution to one based entirely on S S A , but that 's the current year position , where you 're getting a specific grant , and it is distributed on those , broadly those two factors .
17 Well that 's not so bad if you 're getting a wee bit of help with her but er she 's a
18 This is both central management costs and those direct support costs within the divisions , and within the services , that is recharged over provisions of service , so that you 're getting a true cost , in terms of your costs of running the elderly services , the children and family services , so they include both directly man management costs .
19 No , what I 'm saying is , I do n't think from the accident book you 're getting a true picture because people do n't always report it , they 'll be off several days afterwards .
20 Yes , it might , it might , but , but , but now you 're getting a little bit , you 're getting a bit too , too sophisticated now , we 're going to come on to that later .
21 Yeah , well some of it you 're getting a little bit cheaper
22 So it 's I mean , let's see , you were getting a thousand pound a month , you 're now gon na get eleven hundred pounds a month ,
23 Now let's say we 've done that we thought there were three people here so you though you were getting a third right .
24 You 've got , I think you got lost and the reason why you , you were getting yourself erm tied up in the figures and why there was less eye contact was because you were getting a little bit lost with those figures at the top of the page .
25 Cor she 's getting a fluffy coat is n't she , now ?
26 For the advertiser who is concerned as to whether he or she is getting a good deal from an agency or media specialist , companies such as Media Audits provide a service that compares the buying performance of different advertisers and their agencies in similar markets and media .
27 But she may be liable for some tax , if , in addition to the basic retirement pension , she is getting a graduated pension , or an additional pension for working past retirement age .
28 She was getting a good response from her students .
29 My wife 'd be a lot better off if she was getting a proper wage for her housework , then she 'd have to bloody well do it properly . ’
30 ‘ I think that we are getting a long way from the subject , ’ he said .
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