get frantic
become frantic

"Take a deep breath and get frantic so I can hear it."

She was helpless, and getting frantic would not do a bit of good.

When everybody started getting frantic about jobs, I already had something lined up.

The other passengers seem to take the situation calmly, but I'm getting frantic.

She feels people should age gracefully and not get frantic.

I was getting frantic, thought something had gone wrong.

I knew he was getting frantic, too, because conversations like this one should not be conducted over a car phone.

The boy's mother or father must be getting frantic.

It's a lovely area, but best avoided in the summer when things get frantic.

"When the market gets frantic, the value of time is presumed to be a lot more valuable."

I was just getting frantic about the wallet when she came up and handed it to me.

She saw what I was leading up to, and she started getting frantic all over again.

Getting frantic, he put his body in her path.

A weird panic was setting in, and the people were getting frantic.

Better get him into his suit before he got frantic, I thought, and looked up into the face of the girl.

Back I go to Dennis and he gets frantic in the bed.

He was getting frantic, conscious of a new threat.

With everybody trying to land a distribution deal, it gets frantic in Park City.

"I saw how you were getting frantic," she said.

The man did not want to rip the flesh away and yet the girl was getting frantic, shaking from the pain.

Sid, now, doesn't get frantic if I'm late and we can talk to each other about our days without being shocked.

He gets frantic at times because he can't see it clearly enough.

Just to reassure you, we have given up on it after getting frantic E-mail from a number of electrical engineers.

The womenfolk, who paid much more attention to such things than menfolk did, were getting frantic.

Trying to reconcile the different clocks is like this new burden, something else to get frantic about."

So then the hunt for land, with or without a house, had become frantic.

Life didn't become frantic until just the past month or so, though.

The old woman became frantic when her little dog disappeared after getting off its lead.

And Lloyd, when he heard of the incident, had become frantic.

When Janet opened the door for him, he could tell she was becoming frantic.

"The poor fellow was becoming frantic when I talked to him again, earlier today."

The young girl became frantic when she was separated from her friends in the huge crowd.

Construction became frantic and many corners were cut to save time.

This causes the office to become frantic with what the list attributes to.

Their mothers are usually on the verge of becoming frantic.

Later, when the market took a dive, he said yesterday, the trading became frantic.

By squeezing her hand in time with his quick strokes he became frantic.

Her search became frantic as she sorted through the presents.

The scrabbling sounds inside became frantic as he set it down on the floor.

He cursed furiously, trying to keep himself from becoming frantic.

Mia becomes frantic and forces the elevator man to take her back to six years ago.

Suddenly the fish became frantic, zigzagging and turning on itself.

They may stop eating, have trouble sleeping and become frantic or paranoid.

By the end of the year, he said, he "became frantic to draw the figure."

He starts hallucinating and is eventually killed after becoming frantic.

When they talked they suddenly became frantic and almost silly.

Finding himself framed for murder, worried about money matters, he had become frantic.

She didn't say anything as her movements became frantic.

Justin, looking on, becomes frantic, but Emma warns him not to tell anyone what she's doing.

The horse saw it too and, becoming frantic, turned upstream in an effort to escape.