Example sentences of "get to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ True , ’ said Phoebe , ‘ but I 'd probably get to be a Union Official immediately , owing to the lack of competition in the Bayswater Chapel , and then Graham would have to give me endless paid hours off to attend to Union Business . ’ |
| 2 | You ca n't get to be nearly two thousand years old and not have few cobwebs on you . |
| 3 | ‘ And how does it get to be so smooth and shiny ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ How did you get to be a driver , Jed ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ How did you get to be a driver ? ’ |
| 6 | It 'll get to be second nature , do n't worry . |
| 7 | ‘ You could get to be very popular back in the city-states , Doc . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll never get to be a good cook . |
| 9 | It might get to be a bit of a bastard , the next few days , and then it might just get to be amusing . |
| 10 | It might get to be a bit of a bastard , the next few days , and then it might just get to be amusing . |
| 11 | There are considerable difficulties for them , like promotion — ‘ We 'd never get to be archdeacons , because we are n't priests ’ — but there are also pastoral roles they can fill that a man ca n't . |
| 12 | While the causal theory suggests that there is only one way in which justified true beliefs can get to be knowledge ( by being caused by the facts ) , the conditional theory is willing to countenance any way , causal or not , which preserves the truth of the two subjunctive conditionals . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , how did it get to be on Earth ? |
| 14 | Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one . |
| 15 | In his line of business you do n't get to be forty unless you have something on the ball . |
| 16 | How come , how did you get to be involved in the union after the War ? |
| 17 | ‘ How do you get to be a day person ? ’ |
| 18 | Hence Sharon and partner Martin can only get to be with their pedigree chum for a few precious hours on Sunday mornings at kennels in Wickford . |
| 19 | ‘ How did she get to be like that ? ’ he asked irritably . |
| 20 | You you more or less guessed I suppose it would somehow get get to be known by somebody you know . |
| 21 | ‘ But how did you get to be chairman ? |
| 22 | It 's different but erm if you really get an Orkney talker just talking to one another and er drawing out the words sometimes and so on it can get to be the same lilt as Welsh . |
| 23 | How did things get to be the way they are today ? |
| 24 | How did things get to be like this ? |
| 25 | ‘ How the hell did she get to be emotionally involved ? |
| 26 | How the hell did she get to be involved anyway ? |
| 27 | Now how did you get to be like it ? |
| 28 | ‘ How did he get to be a patient at Yonder ? ’ |
| 29 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 30 | With sudden house comings or something you can really get to be very sober and you would love to explode huh ? |