Example sentences of "get [adv prt] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was really a good play , ha , and it was done so well , and you were so close to it as well , you got in for two pounds , best thing I 've ever seen . |
| 2 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 3 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 4 | It was well after midnight , getting on for one o'clock , when I went to open the bedroom window , and saw someone coming up through the garden from the bay . ’ |
| 5 | It was getting on for 5 o'clock and the village were batting . |
| 6 | It was getting on for two in the afternoon as she crossed the Rådhuspladsen on her way towards the old part of the town . |
| 7 | Well that is , that 's getting on for two hundred and fifty pages of document . |
| 8 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 9 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 10 | That 's like getting on for thirty P a yoghurt . |
| 11 | Making and editing getting on for fifty films would take time , but Karajan was well ahead of the game . |
| 12 | His patient was getting on for fifty , a handsome , tall woman , very well-dressed . |
| 13 | John Knollys himself was getting on for fifty : a wizened , weatherbeaten man , and a master craftsman and designer . |
| 14 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 15 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 16 | He must be getting on for seventy , and we need a younger head groom . ’ |
| 17 | He was getting on for seventy and had arthritis . |
| 18 | Her dad must be getting on for seventy she looks as though |
| 19 | Cos a boy in standard five could be getting on for thirteen . |
| 20 | It 's probably getting on for thirteen . |
| 21 | Now it was getting on for five o'clock . |
| 22 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 23 | ABBERLEY : Getting on for five in the morning . |
| 24 | Er somewhere about Aye getting on for five five foot long . |
| 25 | Did very well there , getting on for five hundred pounds . |
| 26 | I think it 's something is n't it getting on for five hundred for the whole year was n't it . |
| 27 | One late summer morning when Celia was getting on for four years old , Harriet drove back to Four Winds after one of her solo shopping-trips and was surprised to find Liza sitting outside with a young woman of about her own age . |
| 28 | How , he wondered , did one set about finding a woman , last heard of in Cornwall , whose surname was Carrow — that is , if she had n't remarried — and a child who he supposed must be getting on for four . |
| 29 | The , perhaps the the points to make there , is that the bigger the ninety-four , five is er , getting on for four million pounds below the ninety-three , four level , and that reflects , firstly , a reduction in students grants , with a a corresponding increase in the amount available from student loans , and secondly , a reduction in the tuition fees payable as part of the mandatory award , er , in the light of direct , higher direct funding of higher education establishments . |
| 30 | By the time they had got the room cleared up and were ready to go out it would be getting on for twelve . |