Example sentences of "was [adv] get the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is disappointing because he was just getting the hang of Wimbledon and he would have won if he had n't taken the knock at the first bend , ’ said Williams . |
| 2 | Mr Sandy recalls that the biggest challenge was just to get the name known in the major markets in Europe : ‘ Whether the message coming back was ‘ Unbekannt ’ or ‘ Pas Connu ’ the gist of it was that we were unknown and if you 're trying to sell whiskies people have n't heard of , then you have n't got much to go on . ’ |
| 3 | The professor 's wife said something about how difficult and expensive it was to get a good cleaning woman , and the professor responded uneasily , insensitively , aware that he was not getting the respect he was used to in his Senior Common Room . |
| 4 | Sunil was busily getting the machine to work . |
| 5 | As to the judiciary , the prevailing Home Office belief was that the need was simply to get the judges to grasp the facts , revealed by criminological research and the experience of the prison and probation services , about the suitability of various sorts of offenders for the different forms and lengths of sentence which were at their disposal . |
| 6 | He was n't getting the story right . |
| 7 | Mrs Newbery said : ‘ She was n't getting the stimulation she needed . |
| 8 | Mr Fearon was n't getting the better of Harriet , certainly . |
| 9 | A Micron spokesman said the company ceased investing and reassigned engineers to other projects last month because it was n't getting the ‘ best bang for the buck . ’ |
| 10 | Then on Monday I was told I was n't getting the vehicle . |
| 11 | You did go round the houses on that that was n't to get the point |
| 12 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 13 | The trick was then to get the newly-formed zygote back into the mother so it could attach to the inside of the womb and develop normally . ’ |