Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] not getting " in BNC.

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1 She 's not getting paid one cent as far as we know .
2 She 's not getting a penny from me , I can promise you . ’
3 Ah she 's not getting out of bed at all .
4 If you give her anything else , she can do that as well , she tries not to get involved , but I try to keep giving her more , so she 's not getting bored with the job .
5 but er , she 's not getting
6 Er Carole Vorderman , she 's not getting a chance to do the figures .
7 any more any more trouble even though she 's not getting into bad trouble as such it 's going off and coming home
8 She 's not getting a look in ?
9 She 's not getting a look in ?
10 She 's not getting up !
11 A roof rack , he wants to borrow one for Sunday , cos Susan 's coming back look , anyway she asked me and I said no we 've never had one , I do n't think we ever had , I said I 'll ask Doreen , so I asked Doreen and she said yes we have , but I 'd have to ask Leslie first , so when Dee come back I said yes she has , but do n't say anything to her cos you might not get it , but she 's not getting that .
12 One is always warned about the perils of wishing — perhaps Constanza wo n't be in trouble because she is not getting her wish literally .
13 And with the theatre running into difficulties about subsidy it 's not getting any more hopeful .
14 Sometimes I will have abandoned a painting , got really tired of it and feel it 's not getting anywhere , and you will come and make some remark that makes me look at it again and think : oh yes , I could just pull that one together .
15 Since it 's not getting past the ROM stage when I boot up , is this a fault in the ROM , or could I have contracted a virus ?
16 she 'll not have much of an appetite , because that bit 's not working properly , and it 's not getting a chance to go through her
17 It 's not getting brittle ?
18 Oh it 's just it 's not getting any better .
19 ‘ At 35 it 's not getting any easier , but I did n't play much last year and that might help me .
20 Yeah just something about it , it 's not getting done
21 Okay , it 's zero acceleration , it 's not getting any faster .
22 necessarily calling for radicalization cos it was forced erm I , I , it appeared to me that how that the Communist Party would have continued a moderate policy had the peasants not erm been demanding further radical change and in actual fact the tone of the document 's quite moderate and it 's protecting middle peasants , rich peasants , even some landlords who had remained loyal to the Party so it 's not at all radical but erm it 's just it 's radical in the sense that how that it wants to get rid of feudalism , but it 's not getting rid of landlords per se as a class .
23 Therefore if you issue a licence like this the local authorities can check up , market people can god own and make sure it 's not getting out of hand and the local police know the sort of traffic to expect and therefore can control .
24 It 's just recently I read about this it 's not getting air into it or something is the reason it ex it can suddenly shoot up all over you .
25 so , so it 's not gon na be there , and unfortunately it 's going to take a while , because we 're in such a deep recession and recession is bad , and it 's not getting any better
26 By this time next month we 're just about at the solstice we 're find that it 's not getting light until about seven o'clock in the morning and it 's getting dark again by about half past three .
27 Pear Tree , well , serious congestion there as well , it 's not getting away with it this evening .
28 I know that the message is getting through to gay men , but I 'm not surprised to hear that it 's not getting through to heterosexuals .
29 It is not getting better : a recent study of 60 cities showed that black and white speech patterns are drifting further apart .
30 ‘ Aid to these countries is of a high humanitarian priority at the moment , ’ he said , ‘ and it is not getting the desired coverage because of problems in neighbouring states . ’
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