Example sentences of "started getting [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when her relationship with SHE 's sex columnist Doctor David Delvin started getting serious , Christine became a veritable bag of nerves . |
| 2 | ‘ I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said . |
| 3 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 4 | Well yes yes and Sarah will nip down as well and then Sarah was then getting used to doing , she started getting used to doing it and that was it I used to come out and say well no I 'll look after the bar from now on and that 's it , and er |
| 5 | Bush had been inaugurated while I was in Australia , and when I came home , I started getting all the bizarre ideas that maybe I 'd had enough of tennis . |
| 6 | So wha who and he started getting all those carry on like that all one at a time they walk out . |
| 7 | So I think when they started getting all this |
| 8 | Then I started getting involved with the women and that took another three or four weeks because that was a different world with another set of rules . |
| 9 | Monday , Tuesday , he started getting better and , and he 's steadily got better and better and better , he 's very , very tired , he 's not well he 's very tired but er it 's oh yes , yeah ! |
| 10 | Harvard 's dealing director started getting desperate . |
| 11 | After that came my Marx and Schweitzer phase but I started getting greedy and wanting them all rolled into one and then somebody told me that we 've got to learn to love ourselves , so I tried that but it seemed a bit selfish . |
| 12 | Wilko sidelined Cantona like a shot when he started getting uppity . |
| 13 | When he started getting drunk , he could become very unpleasant ’ ) . |
| 14 | So they started getting drunk together , and writing songs together . |
| 15 | And so he 's the one who started doing this — I do n't know if you remember Rolling Stone during that period he started getting slight , not really new wave , but we used some of the constructivist thing of breaking pages somewhat and pushing things on angles or erm My favourite was his Bob Dylan spread which actually I did , but it was based on what he was trying to get me to do , where everything read left to right and everything was , you know , point sizes lined up and everything was on a column grid , but it was , when you looked at it you had to , you know , like focus on it . |
| 16 | ‘ The director told us to keep cool , ’ recalled Quinn , ‘ but then they really started getting heavy with Lloyd Nolan . |
| 17 | Then the guy round the corner , y'know , the one who 'd laid the gear on me , came round last month and started getting heavy about the money I owed him . |
| 18 | But then he started getting angry , with the world , with me . |
| 19 | And that we 've had no rain since Tuesday , and it started getting hotter yesterday ? ’ |
| 20 | Sumitomo , which quietly started getting JLE-compatible Opus products four or five months ago to seed its large accounts , will be handling both the Opus Sparc workstations and add-in Sparc cards . |
| 21 | When I awoke and started getting ready for my classes , which now passed mechanically , as if in a vacuum , the students suspended in time and space , and my own voice seeming to come from somewhere a long , long way away , I would write a poem for you as a kind of incantation to bring you back that day : |
| 22 | She 's had a lot of ups and downs , Christmas , New Year 's Eve night Rudy and I went to a party , Pam 's daughter 's party , it 's her eighteenth and at quarter to twelve when they started getting ready to ring the chimes in , at midnight Wendy said I ca n't stay Joy I 'm gon na have to go I said oh alright then , I said I see you alright , are you alright ? |
| 23 | I started getting confused halfway through , but I was determined not to ask anyone else I did n't want another negative response to spoil the childlike happiness that the policeman 's courtesy had brought to my otherwise unrewarding day . |
| 24 | It was very uncomfortable until firstly I started getting some of the programmes I had commissioned back , and secondly I saw on screen that some of them were going to be among the first successes of the Channel . |
| 25 | They had n't come in yet so I started getting some food ready and tried to make up my mind what to tell Rick . |
| 26 | They just started getting mad with her and chucking wooden dice that size at her , trying to hit her , and blackboard rubbers , smashing up the lightbulbs and everything , and in the end she just went in the store-cupboard , crying , so we locked her in . ’ |
| 27 | It was time he started getting mad with the freakster and the clever boy . |
| 28 | Then , he started getting interested in banger-racing and got a steady girlfriend . |
| 29 | After the ‘ Talk to Your Daughter ’ album came out , people started getting interested and so they started making the guitar again and people started buying it ! ’ |
| 30 | I told Rob and Fred afterwards and they looked at me in horror , and that 's when I started getting panic-stricken . |