Example sentences of "get [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did that one day when things got hairier than usual , went down to where some bandit was trying to rip us off and practically rubbed beards with him and shouted into his face I Want To Work For Christ 's Sake Let Me Work , but Vic said that was n't being helpful . |
| 2 | We 'd have had one but they got dearer and dearer and dearer ! |
| 3 | As Rose got older , Wesley 's orders got stranger and stranger . |
| 4 | The taxi drove along the quiet country roads , and the sky turned pink and purple as the sun got lower and lower in the west . |
| 5 | As pumps improved , Crookes got lower pressures than Faraday had been able to do ; and eventually he discovered cathode rays , which he interpreted as this fourth state . |
| 6 | As he got nearer to No. 22 he decided that Mrs Brocklebank had been neglecting her duties here as well . |
| 7 | That 's what H M I P did they got further information from British Coal they met er on Friday er with their colleagues at the National Rivers Authority and it 's from that greater understanding of the application that H M I P have now said that they are prepared to withdraw their objection subject to the imposition of the conditions at the N R A request . |
| 8 | His breaths got steadier , quieter . |
| 9 | Lave and Omenn ( 1981 ) claim long-term trends conceal that during the 1970s ‘ dirty air got cleaner and the clean air got a little dirtier ’ , for it was not until the 1977 Amendments that the EPA had the authority to prevent the worsening of air quality in pristine areas . |
| 10 | Times have changed — and got greener — so that some typical decorations like coral are no longer acceptable , while style and fashion has made a good-looking living picture in your lounge far more important than the simple challenge of keeping pet fish alive . |
| 11 | He had been picked out at an identification parade only after his photograph had been shown to the prosecution witnesses — three criminals who got shorter sentences for helping the police . |
| 12 | Our death list got shorter . |
| 13 | The note got shorter and shorter the more he worked on it . |
| 14 | They introduced ad hoc postulates , such as proposing that objects got shorter when they moved at high speeds . |
| 15 | As the weeks passed , the column got shorter and shorter due , said the ever-so-diplomatic editors , to lack of space . |
| 16 | As the people came flocking to see him , it was as if Roberto 's back got broader and he held his head higher . |
| 17 | And then she got fatter and fatter . |
| 18 | On a diet for five years , he just got fatter . |
| 19 | As time went by , the laps got easier . |
| 20 | More aggressive marketing was carried out by door-to-door canvassers in some Boards , and promotional advertising also increased as the supply situation got easier . |
| 21 | Our training now got easier . |
| 22 | As the traffic thickened towards the rush hour it got easier , but more boring , to stay fairly close behind him . |
| 23 | Those disciples , they had the storm stilled for them and it got easier sailing . |
| 24 | I continued to give lessons all through the war , as food got scarcer and scarcer . |
| 25 | From there things got tougher . |
| 26 | But it was only 4c so he pressed on … and the going got tougher . |
| 27 | As you are all too well aware , last year continued in the same dire vein as 1991 and got tougher as the months went on . |
| 28 | As the afternoon wore on , the going got tougher . |
| 29 | ‘ Gettin' saucier all the time , you are , Nancy , ’ said Mrs Beavis . |
| 30 | Lovat , you 're gettin' fatter . " |