Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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31 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
32 | We we 're keeping it under the first weight bracket er for for cost reasons . |
33 | No , oh , well no , we 're painting it as a female problem exclusively , but one that 's been |
34 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
35 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
36 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
37 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
38 | And the way the management work in here , I can say is they , aim they 're promoting anybody to a chargehand they usually promote somebody that 's actually no threat to themselves . |
39 | When they measure your speed , they 're measuring your velocity really , they 're measuring it in a particular direction , along that road . |
40 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
41 | Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X. |
42 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
43 | Normally you would n't be seen dead doing a knees bend keeping your back straight , but if you 're getting something off the bottom shelf you wo n't look ridiculous at all . |
44 | if we can resolve it with cos then you 're getting summat on a different style of thinking to that , you know , I know Fred does n't wan na be involved but then you 've always got somebody , well we 'll have to go and see Fred first . |
45 | An hour on the workbench could make them play quite reasonably , but do n't imagine you 're getting anything like a real Rickenbacker for a bargain price ; they 've got the looks , but that 's about all . |
46 | We 're moving you to a safe house in Wapping . |
47 | But that still does n't tell me why you 're wearing them in the first place , does it ? ’ she grinned . |
48 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
49 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
50 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
51 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
52 | And we 're doing it in a second time . |
53 | They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is . |
54 | They may need to go out in pairs which is why I think that we do need to put more money into the budget to provide this service and make sure that we 're doing it in the best possible way , erm so I mean I think that it 's very important that we 're consistent about this . |
55 | you , you 're doing it in the same room |
56 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |
57 | There 's just time for a quick flip through the Highway Code and then your , but the test is even more daunting when you 're taking it on a 15 ton steam roller . |
58 | So we 're showing it in a peaceful way because in the end of course we can destroy by the ballot and not the bullet . |
59 | He says : ‘ There are great forces at work , and they 've already embraced us in a world market , they 're sweeping us towards a European destiny . |
60 | ‘ Luce is fond of you and she does n't want to hurt you , but you 're putting her in an impossible situation by your pig-headedness . |