Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 2 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 3 | A SHOP 'S vintage hangover cure is proving so popular that regular users are walking in off the streets to take it at £1 a shot . |
| 4 | TEENAGE girls are ending up with the bones of old women because of eating disorders which are producing ‘ horrifying results ’ , a doctor said yesterday . |
| 5 | Can any of you who are meeting up for the spurs game do me a favour , please ? |
| 6 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 7 | They 're sticking out like the prongs of a garden fork . |
| 8 | So that you 're keeping up with the fractions . |
| 9 | They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets . |
| 10 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 11 | Its stopped snowing here but the temperature is still minus three and we 're going out on the slopes now to join the Gloucester slalom ski-racing team |
| 12 | ‘ I see you 're getting on with the boots for Edward Morris 's nephew , doing a good job too by the look of it . ’ |
| 13 | This was a digitally-recorded album , so you 're just playing into a microphone and what you 're getting back through the headphones tends to be a little dry and sad . |
| 14 | and they 're coming in with the colds and the shivers and not feeling very well . |
| 15 | you 're coming along to the doctors . |
| 16 | They 're cashing in , but at least they 're cashing in on the locals and not just on the Leeds . |
| 17 | The reason why people are willing to spend money and time looking at the geology of Lake Tocarno of course is that some of our ancestors are lying around in the rocks and people are therefore very keen on getting accurate dating of the fossils and one way of doing that is to get erm accurate datings of changes in other fossils that you can co-ordinate with them . |
| 18 | Now that interest rates are at historically low levels , considerable sums of money are moving out of the banks and building societies into equity based investments , the equity message seems to be getting home . |
| 19 | They are tunnelling down into the sewers and up into the cavity walls and suspended ceilings . |
| 20 | Now the crack Flexible Anti-Smuggling Teams are closing in on the dealers ' ’ rat-runs ’ . |
| 21 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 22 | I think we are coming up to the peaks now . ’ |
| 23 | The response certainly illustrates the transition to a less " intransitive " pedagogy and more " interpersonal style " : Questions are coming up from the students . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm going up to the attics . ’ |
| 25 | Oh cos I 'm going up to the doctors as you know . |
| 26 | Des transmits that he found me , and I say that I 'm going over to the flats to see what 's happening , but both Des and the radio warn me off . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going down to the Customs House . ’ |
| 28 | Now look here , if you honestly think that I 'm going down to the police station and verifying a story like that then you can think again ! |
| 29 | I 'm going back to the opticians with the , the new glasses I got are still flipping worse than these ! |
| 30 | fears I er I 'm coming back from the forces I went into the main job , taking over from the previous scheduled clerk by breaking the schedules and the duties . |