Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I am leaving out the personality element . |
| 2 | I 'm breaking up the spaghetti cos I hate it in long lengths ! |
| 3 | I 'm breaking up the band anyway . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know my lines and I 'm dragging down the rest of the cast . ’ |
| 5 | You know , I 'm bringing up the child the best I can , she has plenty of love I love her very much ! |
| 6 | I 'm picking up the PR material in a couple of weeks . |
| 7 | I 'm looking down the garden that 's lovely ! |
| 8 | I 'm taking on the question of violence , this most difficult question . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm soaking up the wisdom , ’ Oscar replied . |
| 10 | ‘ Lee , I 'm dishing out the borscht . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm goin' up the market , I 'll walk along wiv yer , ’ Florrie said , straightening the wide lapel of her shabby coat . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm goin' down the Town ‘ All an' 'ave a word wiv that medical bloke . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm nipping down the market , ’ he informed wife number eight |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | I 'm going up the garage anyway , alright ? |
| 17 | Oh cos I 'm going down the shop |
| 18 | Right I 'm going down the chippie |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Er no we had some larger other income erm I 'm turning up the detail as we speak . |
| 22 | As a matter of interest , I 'm totting up the sum of his holdings as I go along . |
| 23 | no , I 'm finishing off the bits that are left |
| 24 | If you are not putting the proper bodywork on the ball which is coming towards you and which you are taking on the rise , then you wo n't have the control . |
| 25 | While this survey is an invaluable tool when you are weighing up the pros and cons of each lender , it provides no guarantee that the lenders who have performed well will continue to do so . |
| 26 | If you are carrying out the move yourself , with the help of some friends , then do not use tea-chests , they are too heavy , start scouring your local supermarkets and off-licences for as many cardboard boxes as you can lay your hands on . |
| 27 | LIE BACK AND THINK OF … well , certainly not England when you 're soaking up the sun in St Tropez . |
| 28 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 29 | Thus , when you 're setting up the mouse , for instance , if you 've got MOUSE.COM loaded , Presentations senses it and uses its MOUSE.COM interface . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're bringing out the mule in me , Victor . |