Example sentences of "get [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shooed him , and the old man , laughing now , obeyed her , saying , ‘ You 're gettin' as bossy as your dad . ’ |
| 2 | As he got more excited as they got closer to Pollensa so Ruth sank into a deeper depression . |
| 3 | about it , but after a while ah , I you know , things got more difficult as she deteriorated , but th I did learn a lot . |
| 4 | A number of wooden ships continued to be built without adequate shear bracing , however , and such ships got more leaky as they got older , until , in an age when most of the pumping was done by hand , it became uneconomic to run them any longer . |
| 5 | In addition to becoming less class-distinct , homes generally got more comfortable as well , did n't they ? |
| 6 | I will , see he probably has n't got as good as discount as me , so |
| 7 | Surely it was enough to have got as much as she had . |
| 8 | In the four years 1522–5 the King may have got as much as £100,000 per annum from forced loans and subsidies , but his foreign adventures were brought to a sudden and ignominious halt by the refusal to pay the ‘ amicable grant ’ . |
| 9 | They will say are you are you sure you 've got as much as you possibly can |
| 10 | and expected she had n't got as much as she |
| 11 | Peter Naulls and he , searching for the hole into the mine , had got as suntanned as if they had been on the kind of holiday they never had , on the beaches of Spain or Italy . |
| 12 | I have been unable to book any more New , new mums groups as our group has recently got quite small as many of our members have returned to work . |
| 13 | But Moose have got steadily better as they 've gone along and arrived at a winsome pop style not a million miles from Lloyd Cole . |
| 14 | The walk-in had got steadily worse as the altitude began to tell , but all that now lay behind us . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'd got too many as usual . |
| 16 | ‘ It gets much worse as they get older , ’ they warn darkly . |
| 17 | The Kefauver report is mentioned in passing but neither the Hubert Humphrey follow-up , nor Morton Mintz 's massive By Prescription Only , nor Rick Carlson 's The End of Medicine get so much as a mention . |
| 18 | Pitch , of course , gets progressively softer as it is heated , and similarly , since the rocks of the mantle are also at high temperatures — the temperature in the earth increases downwards at a rate of about 30 degrees C per kilometre — they can also be thought of as being rather ‘ soft ’ . |
| 19 | The potential computing power gets ever bigger as the universe rushes towards the omega point . |
| 20 | Scattering gets more intense as wavelength diminishes , so blue light in the visible spectrum is scattered more than red light because the wavelength of blue light is less than that of red light . |
| 21 | " Has it ever struck you , Pinkie , what it would be like to belong to a class of objects which gets more valuable as it gets older ? |
| 22 | This description , of course , implies that the range for period 2 n gets rapidly narrower as n increases . |
| 23 | Hilda seemed to be getting more animated as her own bafflement and distress increased . |
| 24 | Whereas the satiric intentions of Divorce Italian Style were pointed and comic , Alfredo Alfredo gets unduly preachy as Dustin and his mistress join the four-year fight to change the Italian law on divorce . |
| 25 | What you want to make sure is that with finite resources , each public spending sector gets as much as possible . ’ |
| 26 | I mean he does n't want for nothing , he gets as much as I can give him . |
| 27 | This could mean Eleanor gets as much as a million pounds . |
| 28 | gets as dirty as the mattress in a brothel … |
| 29 | An important corollary of the present discussion is that circuit components of centimetre dimensions can properly be regarded as discrete until the frequency gets as high as about 300MHz ( recall discussion of this topic near the beginning of section 4.3 ) . |
| 30 | Actually , Voight is rather too old for the role , and overdoes the wide-eyed innocence , especially in the last twenty minutes when the movie gets as soft as an overripe Florida plum . |