Example sentences of "[prep] getting [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawford 's character , Harry England , had to be seen driving a forty-year-old Rolls-Royce convertible into the ten-feet-deep swimming pool of a château above Cannes after getting drunk . |
| 2 | A PENSIONER caused havoc after getting lost and driving the wrong way up a motorway . |
| 3 | AMERICAN vice president-elect Al Gore and wife Tipper had to be rescued by secret service agents after getting lost on a weekend hike . |
| 4 | Some had nowhere to live apart from crowded dormitory rooms , even after getting married . |
| 5 | In a fine example of the above , Bellamy recalls an incident at Queens Club in 1972 when Gonzalez , then 42 , was disqualified after getting upset with a linesman . |
| 6 | MCI Communications Corp is now shipping the GEC-Marconi Ltd VideoPhone for $1,500 the pair after getting Federal Communications Commission approval for the device , which is being sold here in the UK , in Japan , Singapore and Germany . |
| 7 | At 16 , after getting several O-levels , Lesley got a job as secretary in a Manchester city-centre office . |
| 8 | A MOTHER fell to her death in front of her three children after getting locked out of their flat , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 9 | After getting some oxygen , he then went back in for a third time . |
| 10 | ‘ I — I suppose Claudine was disappointed after getting ready to go , ’ Jenna stammered . |
| 11 | ( They all arrived together at Fontanellato the following week , after getting stuck in some military censor 's office . ) |
| 12 | TWO anglers were winched to safety by RAF helicopter yesterday after getting cut off by the tide at Severn Beach , Avon . |
| 13 | Since last Christmas I have been struggling towards getting better . |
| 14 | All our efforts and prayers should be directed towards getting both partners to co-operate in finding help . |
| 15 | If you do n't make a will , you lose the chance of getting unbiased independent advice on your general financial position from your solicitor . |
| 16 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself … |
| 17 | The state-funded National Consumer Council said : ‘ If these legal reforms go through , ordinary people in England and Wales will stand a much better chance of getting real justice . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I think there is a real prospect of getting major changes to this bill , ’ he added . |
| 19 | At this stage , Browns Lane has not given up hope of getting rear seats into the convertible , but it is proving a hard task , and it is probably that only the coupe will be a two-plus-two . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been using a Les Paul Gold Top for a long time — a ‘ 59 reissue with P-90s — but I 've got this unfortunate habit of getting pissed off onstage and tossing the odd guitar , so rather than risk the Gold Top any more I 've bought one of these new Hamers , which is styled after a '50s Les Paul Special . |
| 21 | I have played a full set of District Championship games and now it 's a question of getting sharper . ’ |
| 22 | I was out with erm an nephew la last night and I mean it was n't icy but it was sort of getting late and it was cold . |
| 23 | First we can try to dismantle the secondary problem of getting anxious about anxiety , or worrying about symptoms . |
| 24 | The first intimation of its scope came when the producer of Yorkshire Television 's daily regional current affairs programme , Calendar , came to complain bitterly that the task of getting that evening 's show on the air had been seriously handicapped . |
| 25 | He had loaned five thousand pounds to Phillip Wreck , one of the most notorious villains in Paddington , and in Joe 's mind Michael had more chance of getting the Pope 's inside leg measurement than he had of getting that money back . |
| 26 | Because we add up the probabilities , to find out the chances of getting that or that . |
| 27 | you know , that could be a sort of central way of getting that back could n't it if if it can be that sort of you know comments about being more confident , being able to get on with it . |
| 28 | With the current state of the UK economy and the level of unemployment any tool which can increase your chances of getting that perfect job must be well worth the money . |
| 29 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 30 | Now one of the problems is in the Army , that if you do need support , it 's a sign of weakness , it 's a sign of failure , it 's almost impossible for you to get the kind of counselling and help that a lot of young lads need , and I think that a lot of young people in the Army today who maybe have got a lot of worries in their soul , and they do n't have the courage at the moment or the possibility of getting that help because of the Army culture . |