Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siban commands , and I am to carry out the reconnaissance . ’ |
| 2 | Of course , I am leaving out the personality element . |
| 3 | Yea , though I run down the valleys , I am Towed up the hills . |
| 4 | I 'm breaking up the spaghetti cos I hate it in long lengths ! |
| 5 | I 'm breaking up the band anyway . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know my lines and I 'm dragging down the rest of the cast . ’ |
| 7 | You know , I 'm bringing up the child the best I can , she has plenty of love I love her very much ! |
| 8 | I 'm picking up the PR material in a couple of weeks . |
| 9 | I 'm looking down the garden that 's lovely ! |
| 10 | I 'm taking on the question of violence , this most difficult question . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm soaking up the wisdom , ’ Oscar replied . |
| 12 | ‘ Lee , I 'm dishing out the borscht . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm goin' up the market , I 'll walk along wiv yer , ’ Florrie said , straightening the wide lapel of her shabby coat . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm goin' down the Town ‘ All an' 'ave a word wiv that medical bloke . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm nipping down the market , ’ he informed wife number eight |
| 16 | I mean , he 's all , I mean he walked in the door , he was , I 'm coming down the garden , and erm , he walked down the garden and he 'd seen me , and he started really smiling . |
| 17 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |
| 18 | And I 'm carried on the tide |
| 19 | I 'm going up the garage anyway , alright ? |
| 20 | Oh cos I 'm going down the shop |
| 21 | Right I 'm going down the chippie |
| 22 | I 've planned me route , I 'm going down the M six , I need to come off at the spaghetti junction whatever it is , and I 'm going to check me clock and I 'm going allow plenty of time to get there . |
| 23 | According to Alan , they would always say ‘ I 'm going down the Quimbourne tonight ’ ( the name of the community centre ) , as if visiting a pub or club , and not ‘ I 'm going to the Young Conservatives . ’ |
| 24 | Er no we had some larger other income erm I 'm turning up the detail as we speak . |
| 25 | As a matter of interest , I 'm totting up the sum of his holdings as I go along . |
| 26 | no , I 'm finishing off the bits that are left |
| 27 | I were weighing up the value of the frame |
| 28 | One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse . |
| 29 | And if someone 's going down the shop |
| 30 | So long as you know how far it is to the line , and so long as someone is calling out the time to the start , you just need to judge your speed correctly . |