Sentence examples for getting the measure of from inspiring English sources

I'm getting the measure of it now.

But after getting the measure of the diminutive Belgian, Venus began to apply the pressure with one round-house shot after another.

Bill, perhaps having had a glass or two, and getting the measure of his audience, started shouting for an imaginary stick-in the-mud, calling "Where's Colonel Basher?

You feel you are meeting him on the streets of Den Bosch – or 's-Hertogenbosch as he knew it – and getting the measure of the man.

That's a skill that she learnt on the shop floor: getting the measure of someone physically, but also reading their personality to decipher what it is they're really asking her for.

Ask UBS and Credit Suisse, two banks that had to make big changes after he took an interest.But while Switzerland's business establishment knows Mr Ebner well, Sweden's is only just getting the measure of him.

"He needs to have face time with voters and a more intimate setting so people can get the measure of the man," said Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia, who will campaign on Saturday with Mr. Romney.

Trying to get the measure of London is futile.

Nor evidence he has yet got the measure of government.

We've got the measure of each other now".

People will have seen a lot of those to get the measure of us".