Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the extracts from cases and other materials which follow , where the term ‘ sovereignty ’ is used , the judges or writers are using it in the sense of supremacy . |
| 2 | However , I am doing as the Daily Mirror suggested , and am contacting you in the hope that you can give me the answer . |
| 3 | I thought he would , he deserves it and suddenly the semi-circle is clapping and looking at me : ‘ She 's won , she 's a-a-a won , ’ I hear John shout from half-way up the stalls , and my fellow contestants are slapping me on the back and pushing me to the front of the stage , |
| 4 | ‘ But I suppose that you are consoling yourself after the fashion of a fool who lives in the slums . |
| 5 | Oh , I 've no doubt that somewhere down the line these things are are built it , but what I 'm saying is that the majority of dealers these days are including it within the package and saying look this vehicle comes with it completely because there is such erm a demand for this erm type of insurance . |
| 6 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 7 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 8 | We are bracing ourselves in the Administration Centre for what promises to be an even better year two targetting very substantial growth over year one . |
| 9 | The Chancellor and the Prime Minister are patting themselves on the back for the fact that they have managed to reduce British inflation rates to something like the German levels , but there is a difference between the two . |
| 10 | He said When they are stabbing you in the back and behaving totally idiotically . |
| 11 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 12 | Property speculators in particular are addressing themselves to the question of what is to be done with the vast stretches of land once occupied by watch towers , border guards , dogs and rabbits . |
| 13 | Why is it that some general secretaries of certain unions are pushing us down the path of severing our links ? |
| 14 | But I think we 're seeing something in the Forest side we have n't see for what twelve fourteen years are we . |
| 15 | Every other day we 're using it at the moment . |
| 16 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 17 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 18 | And I think that is the message which I want to get over to you , because if you can find that way to tread that difficult line which is there in our society which is over-protective , over-secretive , which is concerned about not not letting people unless they 're of a certain rank , level or certain job , speak out publicly unless you can break through it I think you 're actually , first of all , denying something for yourselves , and that you 're denying something for the public at large . |
| 19 | You 're pushing me to the limit , ’ she whispered , cringing into the brocade settle and holding her drink in front of her defensively . |
| 20 | Oh you want to walk on that , oh Charlotte come on then , you 're pushing me into the road . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're pushing me in the direction of flattery again , ’ he said softly . |
| 22 | We 're ignoring them for the moment . ’ |
| 23 | the earths it comes out of so they 're selling it by the bottle in Germany . |
| 24 | like for a kick off , he went down to the skip last Saturday , the tip , we had , er he was clearing out the back yard , he took some rubble and boxes and things down there , and he was talking to the fellow there they said oh , he said er they were shutting this skip , er they 're moving it down the road and you 'll have to pay , you 'll have to pay to tip your rubbish |
| 25 | It 's a couple of hours ’ drive from Berlin , and they 're expecting us in the morning . |
| 26 | You 're breaking me on the rack of your virtue . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We 're having it at the end of January … ’ |
| 28 | I think there 's still too much ‘ You do that , you do this ’ in the big record companies , but that 's bollocks too , because without the artists knowing what they 're doing nobody in the record company would have a job . ’ |
| 29 | They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally . |
| 30 | And we 're doing something on the character of the Christian , er I ca n't , obedience , , righteousness is one and I ca n't remember what the other is . |