Example sentences of "getting a little [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Simon Lee , of Stratford-upon-Avon , said that although the party machine was ‘ getting a little bit tired ’ , every member should accept their share of the blame for recent dents to the party image .
2 ‘ It is getting a little bit critical as far as actually knowing , ’ she added .
3 She need n't have worried ; from what I had seen , getting a little bit of cream on your nose was practically compulsory , like getting nicked on the cheek in a ritualised duel before being allowed to enter a Prussian drinking sodality .
4 I 'm getting a little bit disturbed .
5 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 .
6 We have made steady progress since the New Year — we have tightened up the defence and now we 're getting a little bit of luck . ’
7 We have made steady progress since the New Year — we have tightened up the defence and now we 're getting a little bit of luck . ’
8 I think this might help to defuse the whole situation which is getting a little bit hot , I 've been
9 I want a bit of face to face something more interesting this is er getting a little bit tedious .
10 So all , all the A class judges are getting a little bit long in the tooth now
11 It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this .
12 er the audience contact when you were actually stood up in the front and you 're there on your own just getting a little bit of feedback from the audience itself er does help and then the playback which erm I think it helped a lot to see how you faired particularly on that fir first attempt what areas you had to concentrate on to rectify your problems .
13 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 .
14 So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ?
15 Well I do n't know , just er , I do n't know really , I do n't want to mind cos he 's been there five years , so if he does get made redundant he 's got a chance of getting a little bit of money , not a lot , but it would help .
16 Yeah , well some of it you 're getting a little bit cheaper
17 That 's it , it 's getting a little bit annoying .
18 people getting a little bit confused about that .
19 It started getting a little bit stressful in fact , yes ?
20 Well , I 'm sure that 's the right answer , but we 're already getting a little bit complicated in our vision of what 's happening .
21 Ah , now we 're getting a little bit toward the meat here .
22 Oxford City Centre getting a little bit easier and Abingdon , Aylesbury ; no problems to report there .
23 Getting a little competition are n't I ?
24 You getting a little sister ?
25 You are not training for the next Olympics , just getting a little fitter and making your heart work more efficiently and become stronger .
26 He 's on yes , he 's only getting a little present cos I 'm still paying for his camcorder till next month .
27 Getting a little gratification often is infinitely better than trying to become Edward Van Halen in a year and failing … ! ’
28 At Club LaSanta , the sporting holiday resort where he trains in Lanzarote , the other guests are clearly getting a little fillip from the rangy , easy presence of their imagistic icon , but still he was cornered one night in the bar by a posse of English girls to be accused : ‘ Oh , we hear you 're really arrogant . ’
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