Example sentences of "it [is] [verb] [adj -er] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , th they must feel that erm you know , it 's getting dearer and dearer and is it , is it all worth it ? |
| 2 | It 's getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 3 | As with the rest of Corfu it 's getting better and better each year , but that does n't mean you should wait to come ! |
| 4 | The er not a sore throat th you know , it 's there for a couple of days and then it kind of eases off , I think it 's getting better and then |
| 5 | But surely it it 's happened that it 's getting er and and I touch wood I do n't know how superstitious you are but it 's getting better and better and better for you each time because when you came here ooh some years ago since you first came into this studio er you were pretty popular then but it seems to increase all the time does n't it ? |
| 6 | And you 'll say , well it 's getting closer , as it gets closer and closer to zero it 's getting bigger and bigger and bigger , so when it gets to zero , it 'll be infinite . |
| 7 | Look , it 's getting bigger and bigger . |
| 8 | Miss Ellie Lane , the Essex ‘ funny girl ’ , says ‘ it 's getting harder and harder to make people laugh ’ ; |
| 9 | It 's getting harder and harder , though . |
| 10 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |
| 11 | But it 's , it 's like trying to climb a mountain , is n't it , in a sense , you , it 's getting steeper and steeper as you get to the peak , so it gets harder and harder to get that last little bit . |
| 12 | She says it 's geting worse and worse . |
| 13 | She says it 's geting worse and worse . |
| 14 | I have bought Today 's Horse since the beginning and I am happy to say that it is getting better and better — something which can not always be said for the other horsy magazines , which are often repetitive and patronising . |
| 15 | The weight of the evidence is that it is growing stronger and more united and , as I shall go on to argue , this can be best explained within the context of the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 16 | It is becoming busier and faster , with more and more travel , more and more people , and more and more wealth . |