Example sentences of "and getting [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | had several hours and getting bored with the same answer over and over again ! |
| 2 | Outside it was a soft day — and getting softer by the bucketful . |
| 3 | If he had allowed her to take him back to London , he might have been stuck for life with a woman in her thirties ( and getting older by the day ) . |
| 4 | Seventy-two , and getting filthier by the minute , Reg Butler had sex like other men of his age spent Sundays digging their vegetable patch down at the allotment . |
| 5 | He came briefly back from the dead a few minutes later , pulling into a Backdoor tube and getting fried on the reef . |
| 6 | While Robyn is getting up , and getting ready for the day , thinking mostly about the nineteenth-century industrial novels on which she has to lecture this morning , I will tell you about Charles , and other salient facts of her biography . |