Example sentences of "must [be] [verb] on for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he must n't forget that it was a great occasion for old Willis , who must be getting on for sixty-live , ready to take the knock any day now . |
| 2 | ‘ Ooh , well , let's see now , I s'pose it must be getting on for six weeks , now , ’ Cyril said . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 5 | He must be getting on for seventy , and we need a younger head groom . ’ |
| 6 | Her dad must be getting on for seventy she looks as though |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | How , he wondered , did one set about finding a woman , last heard of in Cornwall , whose surname was Carrow — that is , if she had n't remarried — and a child who he supposed must be getting on for four . |