Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [adv prt] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am setting out to save the economy and the British people from the jaws of debt . |
| 2 | ‘ I am going back to fetch the boat . |
| 3 | That 's why I 'm fiddling around doing the odd window here and there because that 's all that we 've got for . |
| 4 | Next year , I 'm coming back to finish the general SVQ , and I want to do Highers too . ’ |
| 5 | Now , I 'm going in to watch the film . |
| 6 | ‘ When the company reached the point where it could n't meet its liabilities I was called in to wind the business up . ’ |
| 7 | I was bound over to keep the peace . |
| 8 | ‘ I was brought up to respect the police but there does not seem to be the respect any more . |
| 9 | I was going out to tell the world and I must have walked from his room pumping pure adrenalin through every vein . |
| 10 | ‘ I know someone has to do it , love , ’ he stated sensitively , ‘ but I 'm not sure that you 're cut out to handle the sad side of a vet 's business . ’ |
| 11 | He was right up to it so I said well I do n't know whether you 're going round to view the house cos that 's on the market are n't they ? |
| 12 | So you 're going out to feed the rabbit ? |
| 13 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 14 | ‘ But why , Karim , especially as you pretended to me you were going off to take the damn exams . |
| 15 | Lily did n't answer ; she was bent down getting the casserole from the oven . |
| 16 | Then Aunt Bessie had a stroke , more than one in fact , and burned herself rather badly , because she apparently suffered one when she was bending down to tend the fire . |
| 17 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |
| 18 | I remember two lady missionaries , who were also returning to Burma , saying , ‘ Well , of course we shall arrive safely because we are going out to do the Lord 's work . ’ |
| 19 | If we are brought up to accept the doctrine of looking after number one , it is not surprising to find the result of that upbringing reflected in society . |
| 20 | Now we 're going around to see the boy 's we 've got the love of my life . |
| 21 | Well , it was just into lunchtime and word came to stop — but almost immediately that was changed , and we were working through to get the ship finished . |
| 22 | The police , of course , can never really be geared easily to incorporate structural challenge to their existing concepts of order and control , for they are set up to maintain the symbols and practice which has sustained the status quo . |
| 23 | authorities in Moscow plan a showpiece funeral for the family — and even a ‘ theme park ’ on the site where they were dug up to commemorate the atrocity . |
| 24 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |
| 25 | One night they were all sitting round the same as usual , in the kitchen this time , Pete and Tommy and a friend of Tommy 's , they were sitting round drinking the whisky Tommy 's friend had brought over when they heard footsteps in the yard . |
| 26 | At least we were earning some money , and they were ending up owing the company money I think . |
| 27 | Now , through Liquorsave , he is setting out to conquer the UK market . |
| 28 | We have two children , aged eight and six , and I know my husband thinks the world of them , but he is carrying on living the life of a single man , with no thought for me . |
| 29 | We have two children , aged eight and six , and I know my husband thinks the world of them , but he is carrying on living the life of a single man , with no thought for me . |
| 30 | His solicitor Ben Pearson said last night : ‘ He is coming back to face the music . ’ |