Example sentences of "getting more " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were getting more mileage out of an asset we already owned and it gave the business a wider base to cope with fluctuations in any part of it . |
| 2 | I was getting more fish than him but could n't get the quality despite trying every bait in the book . |
| 3 | It may be of vital importance to the seller to get the money instead of the land ; but he will rarely succeed in getting more than his out-of-pocket expenses . |
| 4 | This determination has added a new dimension to the play of a man who says he is ‘ getting more pleasure out of humiliating a guy ’ and likes to ‘ crush his ego ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ You could help the kids be more effective in getting more pleasure and more value from their friendships . |
| 6 | They baked cakes and meat pies and wholemeal loaves and they ordered flowers and hoovered the carpets and stairs ; in fact , thought Henry , Donald was getting more ( and higher quality ) attention dead than he ever had alive . |
| 7 | I do not know how this can be avoided except perhaps by getting more things settled at the official level , and when they can not be settled there having the issues presented plainly to ministers . |
| 8 | But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum . |
| 9 | It is one of the ‘ ifs ’ of history to speculate what would have happened if Khrushchev had succeeded in getting more of his way — shoe bashing or no shoe bashing at the UN General Assembly . |
| 10 | In effect , we are doing some of the work unpaid , with a view to getting more of the benefits when the product sells . ’ |
| 11 | Since I made an arrangement with the man in your office I am having a baby and my doctor says I should be getting more of it . |
| 12 | But the arrangements are becoming a little more fulsome , drum machines ( the innovation of bass players Family Man Barrett ) appear on two tracks , and the band are getting more writing credits . |
| 13 | We 're getting more enquiries following all the recent cuts . ’ |
| 14 | He was doing well , anyway , getting more patients each month , would soon have more than he could comfortably cope with . |
| 15 | ‘ With actresses you 're getting more than a face — a character and a personality as well . ’ |
| 16 | At best it was a good way of getting more work as an extra . |
| 17 | But quiz shows have been getting more viewers than Eldorado . |
| 18 | I joined the scheme because I wanted to extend the criminal scope of my practice and this was one way of getting more contact with the courts and with prospective clients . |
| 19 | Although the opposition boycotted the subsequent legislative election , in protest at alleged irregularities during the presidential election , Ghana remains the darling of British aid overseers , getting more aid than any other African country except Zimbabwe . |
| 20 | The significance of the anonymity issue for many of the legal experts lies more with their own concern with getting more women to report rape , than with raped women 's own priorities for legal change . |
| 21 | Q Firstly , can I thank you for always answering my computing problems and secondly , is there any chance of getting more coverage of networks ? |
| 22 | Daily activities come to revolve around getting more drugs for the next dose . |
| 23 | For the future for erm , for record , we 've not been able in the past to know how people spoke only from books , dictionaries and try to describe how people said things , erm , but this is a living record and I 'm getting more and more embarrassed as the minutes go by and those of you who are doing drama this afternoon , anybody doing drama ? |
| 24 | Mind you I mean even four months , cos you 'd be getting more money . |
| 25 | In monetary terms it made a lot more sense to extend episode numbers within a serial , thereby getting more television hours with fewer changes in location . |
| 26 | but you 're using so many different chemicals that it 's getting more and more confusing |
| 27 | Cos you 've probably found that already with maths have n't you that once there 's a little bit you do n't understand they start putting more and more on that you need to know that little bit for and you you do n't know it and you 're getting more and more lost and then it gets a bit late then . |
| 28 | arrangements , she seems to be getting more and more |
| 29 | ‘ We have good discussions , ’ he wrote , ‘ but there are none of the snide comments about ‘ my Russian mates carving up Poland ’ or ‘ my Commie friends getting more than they bargained for ’ when Russia invaded Finland , that I had on the building job . ’ |
| 30 | If you 're not happy with what you see in the mirror , maybe you could do with changing your eating habits or getting more exercise . |