Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it 's like Jane I mean I was thinking the other day . |
| 2 | Well as I say they 're reviewing the whole lot again . |
| 3 | Raytheon say they are reviewing the entire operation . |
| 4 | Councillors say they are doing the best they can but Bill Dixon , chairman of the authority 's housing committee , admitted : ‘ We are operating on a knife edge . ’ |
| 5 | At home in Belgrade , the Serb capital , Mr Milosevic is promoting the Vance-Owen plan in the face of opposition from extreme nationalists , who say he is betraying the Bosnian Serbs , and democrats , who say his nationalism has landed the country in a disastrous mess . |
| 6 | Keepers say he is making the right moves with five females at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park near Chard , Somerset . |
| 7 | She said as she entered , ‘ My dears … ’ in a very English fashion , and she said all the usual phrases , and then to me , ‘ I hope you 're doing the right thing . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Hope we 're doing the right thing , ’ he whispered . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope we 're doing the right thing , Doctor , ’ she said . |
| 10 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
| 11 | I hope they 're doing the right thing . |
| 12 | can I just ask British Steel , that I mean you 're hearing the other two groups . |
| 13 | Does the Secretary of State agree that despite the tremendous advances in productivity made by the employees of British Coal , the perverse reward that the Government give them is to squeeze the British coal industry between the upper and nether millstones ? |
| 14 | look who 's doing the whole lot apparently he just had to do , he just had to model that , he did n't get a chance to do it properly |
| 15 | I know I 'm going the wrong way , but I do n't care . |
| 16 | I know my way round here and I know I 'm going the wrong way , but I just carry on . |
| 17 | ‘ I want him to live forever but I know I 'm making the right decision even if he dies . |
| 18 | If your graphs and charts are showing an overall decrease in weight , then you know you are eating the right amounts . |
| 19 | erm and , and trying to er er both satisfy yourself and them that , that you know you 're getting the right sort of experience . |
| 20 | No , the queen , the top one , you know we 're doing the top one , now we 're doing Sleepy underneath it |
| 21 | He added : ‘ We 're in the midst of a critical floods situation but from what I hear we 're getting the better of it . |
| 22 | you know whoever 's running the next |
| 23 | When people talk together about marriage they often assume they are discussing the same thing . |
| 24 | ‘ I know he is fighting the mediocre common denominator in politics and life , but is n't he personally an extremely modest man ? ’ |
| 25 | In that sense I suppose I am making the ultimate sacrifice . |
| 26 | erm , oh cut through over there I suppose I was thinking the other day when I worked out that money for Saturday is it , it came to something like two pound eighty when you had Jordan |
| 27 | Lucky me — I reckon I was given the best of both worlds . |
| 28 | Aye guess who 's winning the free kick . |
| 29 | Guess who 's doing the extra day ? got my dad to cover a day . |
| 30 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |