Example sentences of "they [be] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are getting very elaborate , and you 're seeing the stuff in the press for things like ten percent gross yields , has anybody seen those ? |
| 2 | ‘ We are amazed to be prosecuted when currently there are many brokers , other mortgage advertisers , and major building companies who are running ads contrary to the Act which do not mention APR at all , and they are getting away with it . |
| 3 | They are getting away with £4 million by breaking into call boxes . |
| 4 | There are many rumours that people in other countries are reproducing test-tube fusion , but in American government labs they are getting nowhere ; however , many people do not believe them and assert that the big laboratories are seeing the phenomenon and keeping quiet because the oil companies with so much to lose have bought their silence . |
| 5 | Just when the struggle is most important , my intervention may draw pupils back to earlier parts of their investigation , perhaps even exposing unsuspected or overlooked difficulties , and leave them feeling that they are getting nowhere . |
| 6 | Just as the disease process has moments when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse . |
| 7 | Just as the disease process has moments when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse . |
| 8 | Just as the disease process has moments when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse . |
| 9 | For most teachers I have worked with , their particular stress portfolio unfolds unconsciously up to a certain point , after which they become aware of the fact that they are getting seriously stressed and need to take care of themselves . |
| 10 | With the beach all but in reach they are getting heartily tired of this anchoring business . |
| 11 | Juniors must be paid appropriately for the hours that they work : if they are getting only three hours ' rest at night they are working the equivalent of a partial shift and should be paid accordingly . |
| 12 | ‘ They are getting as good prices as the fishermen in this country but our fishermen , although perhaps disappointed at price levels , know how to behave and it is about time the Frenchmen took a leaf out of their book . ’ |
| 13 | They did n't , they we , they have them more frequently now and they 're getting even more and more infrequent now for the rest of the year . |
| 14 | The type of person who goes on this holiday to destinations for example want somewhere unusual perhaps to India , is more likely to be an alocentric person cos they 're getting away from the crowds . |
| 15 | ‘ They 're getting away . |
| 16 | They might think they 're getting away with it , a lot of people who , who , I mean being unemployed is n't , you tend , people tend to feel devalued and so if they can think oh , they 've put one over on that , on the er , benefit office , then they 'll go and brag down the pub about it . |
| 17 | And they they would n't be getting the money they 're getting today . |
| 18 | Oh no I I , I find it highly amusing that they 're getting fucking flustered behind me . |
| 19 | And they 're getting very , very boring . |
| 20 | They 're getting very popular those square bags are n't they Joy ? |
| 21 | And I 'd rather they did something about the service instead of advertising that they 're getting there when they 're patently not . ’ |
| 22 | Because what they 're getting now is nothing . |
| 23 | But you know wh what they 're getting now . |
| 24 | If you 're politcally motivated only you 're not your own man , and I think that politics in local government as strong as they 're getting now is a bad thing . |
| 25 | earn something like two hundred quid a week to match what they 're getting now ! |
| 26 | I mean they 're getting now that , that , before they go any where now . |
| 27 | They 're getting more educated , they can come out and enjoy themselves without that . |
| 28 | They 're getting more popular . |
| 29 | See they 're getting so much you see . |
| 30 | But today , it 's one bu everything 's , everything works alright today cos they 're getting so much money you see . |