Example sentences of "be get on for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He must be getting on for seventy , and we need a younger head groom . ’
2 Her dad must be getting on for seventy she looks as though
3 But he must n't forget that it was a great occasion for old Willis , who must be getting on for sixty-live , ready to take the knock any day now .
4 ‘ Ooh , well , let's see now , I s'pose it must be getting on for six weeks , now , ’ Cyril said .
5 Cos a boy in standard five could be getting on for thirteen .
6 By the time they had got the room cleared up and were ready to go out it would be getting on for twelve .
7 It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago .
8 It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’
9 And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi .
10 How , he wondered , did one set about finding a woman , last heard of in Cornwall , whose surname was Carrow — that is , if she had n't remarried — and a child who he supposed must be getting on for four .
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