Example sentences of "[was/were] getting [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you were getting pissed down Hertford today . |
| 2 | Robinson said : ‘ I thought the fighters were getting close . |
| 3 | This was our second day in Normandy and I believed we were getting used to it . |
| 4 | His eyes were getting used to the dim light and , as she emerged into a whole shape under the fanlight , he was more than ever conscious of how beautiful and how youthful she was . |
| 5 | The measures were felt to be particularly harsh by those catholic parents who were getting involved with the All Children Together movement . |
| 6 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 7 | It was fun , and we were getting cocky by New Orleans . |
| 8 | People were getting tired , and everyone was sitting about . |
| 9 | She held on and held on , but her arms were getting tired and she knew that she would fall in a minute . |
| 10 | 15 years ago Blackburn were getting similar gates to Watford and Oxford . |
| 11 | Given some of the appalling crud that gets sent to rss ( cf Denise ) , I could n't believe you were getting serious grief for it . |
| 12 | The delicious things in the foil-covered dishes had long gone , we were getting drunk nightly on sweet German wine and tins of creamed rice were starting to look attractive , when we finally awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine . |
| 13 | We had stalked around the woods practising booby traps and trip devices , using thin wire and nails , and were getting good at setting nasty ambushes . |
| 14 | He 'd got thinner and the blue eyes were getting watery , but nothing would persuade him to rest . |
| 15 | By this time trains were getting rare , and two hours might elapse during which time any sign of movement in Duckmanton South box would be looked for . |
| 16 | But a law review committee later said rape defendants were getting preferential treatment . |
| 17 | The hawks , hooded and boxed up , brooding , sensing where they were being taken and why , were getting agitated , clicking their tongues and fidgeting . |
| 18 | At first it were good because it were incentive for her to keep going because she 'd , you know , paid so much but toward the end , she said , it were getting ridiculous . |
| 19 | The public were getting obsessed with it , euphoric , and something had to be done . ’ |
| 20 | I heard they were getting great preview reaction . ’ |
| 21 | Things were getting spooky for Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 22 | By that time I was very hungry , my arms were getting sore and my hands were red with gripping the spade and digging into the sand by themselves . |
| 23 | Things were getting desperate . |
| 24 | We 'd had a couple just stay on the lip and we were getting desperate . |
| 25 | They had found it difficult to part but , as things were getting desperate , they turned to magic and said ‘ Abracadabra , one , two , three , say the magic words and now we 're free ’ . |
| 26 | which is where you were getting lost between your four hundred thousand and your three hundred thousand . |
| 27 | We left there , we left about half five , six in the morning did n't we and we were getting lost in and we knew it was in the village in that town but we could n't find it and we kept getting lost so we all pulled her up and he went back and he said to this man can you tell me where the |
| 28 | ‘ I was kissing her and things were getting hot and heavy , ’ Darryl said last night . |
| 29 | ‘ No , ’ Reynolds said , and he shifted his grip on the brown paper as if it were getting hot in his hands . |
| 30 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |