Example sentences of "[that] he [be] getting " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 2 | Let him think that he 's getting away with it . |
| 3 | His big thing at the moment does n't seem to be women but some ruined castle down in Berkshire that he 's getting restored . ’ |
| 4 | Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty . |
| 5 | If the client is confident that he 's getting the best deal from us , he will say , alright Birmingham ar are cheaper than York on a route improvement say , but I 've had one of their cheap jobs before . |
| 6 | There are two girl keepers who spend as much time as they can with him and are giving him so many titbits that he 's getting thoroughly spoiled . |
| 7 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 8 | I would imagine that he 's getting help off his parents , to be honest . |
| 9 | So that he 's getting |
| 10 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 11 | He revealed to ACCOUNTANCY that he is getting extra discounts of around 10% from the six major publishers that are now involved . |
| 12 | I am afraid that he is getting very near to the Nuremburg defence of saying that he was only obeying orders . |
| 13 | Will they think that he is getting a massive discount , as he will have to pay only a small amount ? |
| 14 | ‘ so the customer knows that he is getting an excellent product proven to our own satisfaction . ’ |
| 15 | But they made him realize that he was getting across what he wanted to get across , and not a holy-sounding fog of words . |
| 16 | He realized that he was getting cold , clad as he was exclusively in a rather small towel , but decided to stick it out and pick up all of Davidson 's message . |
| 17 | Though he sensed that he was getting close — his goal , the gringo brain behind the coup , of whom Miguelito had boasted . |
| 18 | Although I knew that he was getting the care that he needed it was so hard not to be able to hold and feed him , but only to sit and look at him lying in this bright , plastic container . |
| 19 | He was real glad that he was getting some acceptance . |
| 20 | Indeed , it did n't seem quite impossible even to me , as he seemed to have reached a kind of plateau — no better but certainly no worse , free of pain and very happy — often informing me that he was getting stronger every day . |
| 21 | When Michael called and proposed dinner that night with Brandon Tartikoff , the new boss at Paramount Pictures , Lowe explained that he was getting married . |
| 22 | I noticed , on my daily visits to him , that he was getting much worse . |
| 23 | Now that he was getting on in years he wanted to take things just that little bit easy , not see patient after patient , cramming in as many as possible , but space them out — eight , ten a day was enough — for with his practice so long established and his clientele so solid he could n't imagine any reason to fear blanks in his appointments book . |
| 24 | It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy , Syl , now that he was getting older and had less energy , should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me . |
| 25 | And Dyson knew from the depth of humility and reverence in his inflection that he was getting a larger fee than even Lord Boddy . |
| 26 | He found that he was getting angry . |
| 27 | He would tell himself that he was getting nowhere and become anxious and depressed . |
| 28 | Convinced that he was getting somewhere at last in his search for admissible evidence , Shaughnessy now turned to several other lines of inquiry . |
| 29 | He could see his father lifting the lid and taking out the wedding-dress , not knowing what to do with it now that he was getting married again . |
| 30 | The thought of the twenty-five thousand pounds he had pledged in the belief that he was getting a skilled crew left her too daunted to frame a suitably crushing reply . |