Example sentences of "[noun] getting [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And you get rid of the idea of the force getting stronger the closer you get to the ball by saying the curvature gets greater . ’ |
2 | Yes , when they see all the white kids getting nicked , all the parents was going mad about it . |
3 | Kids getting restless . |
4 | Doris and somebody were n't one of her lads getting engaged , I du n no if it was |
5 | With nickel-plated handlebars , new pedals , a new saddle , a basket to carry things in and a brightly coloured net over the rear wheel to stop my skirt getting tangled in the chain , the finished bicycle would look brand new . |
6 | ’ Killer Bombs ’ The sirns waled , The sirne ecoed through the streets as the planes ( zoomed ) across the sky Droaned there was a quick burst of ack Ack fire Then a whistling of Bombs all around Suddenly here was silence Then a rumble , Then a boom getting louder like a volcano The sky filled smoke and flames Black Bright orange leeping through the air across the sky in the middle of the noise a child 's crying Then the shouting of people trapped in the rubble House in flames all around The loud ringing of fire engines rushing to the fire More and more voices ( shouting ) for help screaming Body lieing all around . |
7 | The results thus apparently conformed to the pattern of alternation between Awlad Amira and Mannaia , those groups in the vanguard of internecine struggle and ethnic oppression getting disproportionate office . |
8 | Drink was flowing and voices getting louder . |
9 | A gravel substrate will also help , using a fine grade to avoid the fry getting stuck . |
10 | ‘ They did n't mind a stranger getting involved in your family concerns ? ’ |
11 | TENNIS WORLD is Britain 's best-selling tennis publication on newsstands throughout Britain — almost 50% higher than the L.T.A. 's own publication , with the gap getting wider and wider . |
12 | I can imagine Cuntona getting all indignant during a training session when Wilko was trying to tell him what to do and thinking ‘ I am meure cleveurr than heeem ’ . |
13 | can feel me eyes getting sore . |
14 | Lynn Stewart , the teacher and software ‘ expert ’ , and Toni Michael , the computer writer , have got their heads and talents together to write this small ( yes are n't computer books getting bigger and bigger these days ) booklet for parents . |
15 | One of their sections had gone hog barmy and set up an operation that turned into a shoot-out in a friendly country with an apparently innocent citizen getting killed . |
16 | Alas , it is not given to most of us to be sort of genius Edgar Allan Poe was ( most of the time ) , or even to be able to walk in his footsteps like Conan Doyle , G.K. Chesterton , Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie , with those steps getting fainter and fainter along the way . |
17 | I 've seen enough middle-aged English husbands getting pink and sweaty over Scandinavian au pairs to know that lust can be an occupational hazard . |
18 | Rig the rules to prevent minority candidates getting nominated , because there 's no room for the Campaign Group left even to be heavily defeated in what passes for a free election in the new model Labour Party . |
19 | It really was a very good plan , because it would save her the potential embarrassment of André getting amorous over the starters . |
20 | According to its critics , it could result in walkers getting lost , trespassing , squabbling with farmers and even being injured . |
21 | Their plea follows reports of walkers getting lost while clutching an old copy of Wainwright ; or insisting on crossing private land ‘ because the book says so … ’ |
22 | A headline , asked , ‘ Are animals getting better at avoiding extinction ? ’ |
23 | And then he 'd be grumbling , Why is the the horseman getting all the best stuff . |
24 | At this time there seems little chance of Nickie getting rehoused into her own flat , which is her main dream in life . |
25 | With such a small amount of cash recovered the chances of any of his former clients getting much of their money back is slim . |
26 | Fuzzy Logic has 125 owners … all regulars at Prestbury Park and nearly all of them were in the paddock to see their very own horse getting ready for its first run … its trained by Nigel twiston Davies and his assitant Peter Scudamore |
27 | ‘ It was better for me 'ealth down 'ere , ’ said Dolly , the bedroom getting smaller as more of the family spilled in . |
28 | Then I realized that I could hear an engine getting louder and the Shogun was bouncing across the Paddock straight towards me . |
29 | I 've got stories : equipment getting trashed , feet through speakers , Ginger would throw lighted cigarettes in my hair ! |
30 | One way of increasing the number of observations in the examples mentioned would be to repeatedly heat a single bar of metal , or to continually observe a particular Australian getting drunk night after night , and perhaps morning after morning . |