Example sentences of "getting [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — ( in answer to How are you getting on with those jobs I asked you to do ? ) |
| 2 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 3 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 4 | Making and editing getting on for fifty films would take time , but Karajan was well ahead of the game . |
| 5 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 6 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 7 | One late summer morning when Celia was getting on for four years old , Harriet drove back to Four Winds after one of her solo shopping-trips and was surprised to find Liza sitting outside with a young woman of about her own age . |
| 8 | Yeah the other the other factor is now that that data is getting on for twelve months old |
| 9 | ‘ Ooh , well , let's see now , I s'pose it must be getting on for six weeks , now , ’ Cyril said . |
| 10 | I 've done it since I was , well it 's getting on for fifteen years now . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 12 | ‘ She 's getting on for twenty-one years old , and perfectly capable of looking after herself . ’ |
| 13 | Twice as large as the Atlantic and getting on for three times the size of the Indian Ocean , it is bigger than all the land surface of the earth , including Antarctica , and with Africa counted twice . |
| 14 | I am less sure about the Andantino grazioso , which could be more relaxed than here ; it 's as if the performers are anxious that this longish ( and to be honest , maybe too long ) movement should not outstay its welcome , and even here it lasts getting on for three minutes longer than either of the others . |
| 15 | They had to walk , and a real hike it was — getting on for three miles I think . |
| 16 | By the end of the 1730s Truman 's Brewery had getting on for 300 publicans on the books , though less than a tenth were tied houses actually owned by the brewery . |
| 17 | I still , getting on for 40 years later , revisit some of those breathtaking old haunts but nowadays , I fear , by more sedentary means . |
| 18 | Good , you 're getting on to good ideas now . |
| 19 | But I will be getting on to these regulations now . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm getting on to Social Services . |
| 21 | ‘ The powers conferred by section 268 are powers directed to enabling the court to help a liquidator to discover the truth of the circumstances in connection with the affairs of the company , information of trading , dealings , and so forth , in order that the liquidator may be able , as effectively as possible , and , I think , with as little expense as possible … to complete his function as liquidator , to put the affairs of the company in order and to carry out the liquidation in all its various aspects , including , of course , the getting in of any assets of the company available in the liquidation . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd best be getting down to those hens of the old lady 's , ’ he said to Philip . |
| 23 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 24 | In Sarajevo , UN planes had already started landing at the airport before the formal announcement by the Bosnian capital that it would accept the aid , ending a protest mounted because UN relief was not getting through to 100,000 Muslims cut off by Serbs in eastern Bosnia . |
| 25 | The Tamils called on Premadasa to ensure that food and medical supplies were getting through to Tamil citizens in the North-East Province . |
| 26 | I know that the message is getting through to gay men , but I 'm not surprised to hear that it 's not getting through to heterosexuals . |
| 27 | The books feature various babies getting up to all sorts of tricks in different situations . |
| 28 | Continuing to shed businesses that it no longer regards as core , British Telecommunications Plc is getting out of optoelectronic components . |
| 29 | He pulled her against him , heedless of the interested glances from people getting out of other cars . |
| 30 | As well as growing overall , we are also changing the balance of our activities , getting out of certain businesses and into others . |