Example sentences of "[pers pn] be getting to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I now feel that I 'm getting to be somebody in my own right , and not someone my mother wanted me to be . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm getting to be able to read you better and better . |
| 3 | I have a close friend who 's pregnant , and I 'm getting to the stage where I ca n't bear to see her because I just feel so jealous . |
| 4 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 5 | Okay , I 'm getting to September . |
| 6 | ‘ I was getting to the end of the three years when I was approached by Amalgamated Metal . |
| 7 | ‘ I was getting to the point of putting it behind me , but when I conceived everything changed . |
| 8 | ‘ I was getting to that ! ’ |
| 9 | I was getting to him . |
| 10 | I thought I was getting to him . |
| 11 | I 'm gon na be ashamed of driving it again now , I was getting to a point where I was thinking oh my god , Christine came out in black all along here she said , er what 's that ? |
| 12 | You know how it is on ferries — you get a bit disoriented , you never know if you 're on A deck or B deck , or which bit of the outside you 're getting to when you go through a door — the front , the stern , or the sides . |
| 13 | I think beyond that you 're getting to very detailed analysis which will take a lot of time , either yours or ours . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh yeah , ’ retorts Mike , ‘ at last you 're getting to the core of the issue . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Oh yeah , ’ retorts Mike , ‘ at last you 're getting to the core of the issue . ’ |
| 16 | Erm well when you 're getting to glasses , erm there is a way . |
| 17 | You can pack it up , but you can still see the front so you know how near you 're getting to the end of your job . |
| 18 | I think for a very small company this perhaps might be more complicated in computing terms than would be worthwhile , but as soon as you 're getting to the point of many orders in a week , then it can be exceedingly useful to be able to ask the computer to tell you for example what are all the outstanding orders , what are all the overdue orders , what is the stock position bearing in mind that some stock is committed for certain orders , what orders have we got with suppliers to us which are still outstanding , and questions of this sort , can make your business much more efficient . |
| 19 | Speechlessly Fabia stared at him , and he went on to explain , ‘ Then last night , after a sublime day , we went out to dine and I began to admit to myself that you were getting to me in a big way . ’ |
| 20 | Ah right yes so let me see , you were the one who said that you were getting to the S P S S stage or something were you ? |
| 21 | She was getting to be very wary of those dark eyes and their constant probing . |
| 22 | She was getting to him , wriggling past his defences and beginning to matter , and that was bad news . |
| 23 | She was getting to him , getting too close . |
| 24 | No we 're not actually losing money but I mean with Traidcraft we are getting to the low point where we put borrowed stock |
| 25 | I do n't mind dropping in and saying , hello , we we are getting to a size where , er I think it 's speci slightly impractical , I mean er I can see there was so might be useful to know there 's a new member of staff here , it 's either then say there was somebody wandering around , who are you and what are you doing here . |
| 26 | This yields 5.15 per cent , at the moment , but we are getting to a situation in the market which will probably be good news for the fund manager 's philosophy . |
| 27 | ‘ We are getting to the stage where the club v country conflict will explode . |
| 28 | Now we 're getting to it ! |
| 29 | We 're getting to the point . |
| 30 | We 're getting to the stage where we are older than our readers . ’ |