Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that a lot of blacks are just expecting things to come to them ; they 're sort of free living , it 's our nature to sit down and enjoy life . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're only makin' things more difficult for yourself . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You 're deliberately over-simplifying things . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're deliberately making things easy for us . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're still sorting things out . ’ |
| 6 | You 're always buying things and then wanting |
| 7 | They 're always buying things for the home . |
| 8 | ‘ These young girls , they 're always seeing things . |
| 9 | In my state , you 're always hoping things are random . |
| 10 | oh alright , he 's put them down somewhere and he ca n't find them , and he thought perhaps you might of picked them up , cos you 're always picking things up you should n't are n't you ? |
| 11 | one will be with me one will come with me cos they 're always doing things wrong and then shout at them ! |
| 12 | I 've got so many things on my mind ; but when you 're here running things , well , I know everything 's all right . |
| 13 | ‘ They 're certainly tearing things down and putting them up at the moment . |
| 14 | We 're trying to do things which on many occasions we 're actually doing things which are done at university with them , in a simplified form , of course , but just to give them this perspective , this view of physics . |
| 15 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
| 16 | When a man goes to work , he might be only making things , but at least they 're different things … |
| 17 | Well , I 'm just taking things that are bad for me . |
| 18 | Like , I 'm just asking things everybody wanted to know … |
| 19 | I 'm here to do things . |
| 20 | ‘ But you said you 'd be here getting things ready for the children 's holidays … ’ |
| 21 | If I 'm then doing things , if I 'm doing beef gravy I put the beef stock cube , and either one or two Oxo 's |
| 22 | So , if your boiler , fire or cooker goes down on Christmas day , we 'll be there to sort things out . |
| 23 | If you do add the other Severums , make it all at once and first thing on a day when you will be there to supervise things . |
| 24 | People were always saying things were over . |
| 25 | ‘ It was funny , people were always saying things about her , about how she 'd come to no good — ’ He stopped again . |
| 26 | Before I left school , the local papers were full of me , They were always saying things like ‘ This boy will go all the way to the top ’ and that , and I suppose you could say I took notice of the media . |
| 27 | Well I think it 's a very being short sighted thing to do to erm |
| 28 | I could have said anything , made an excuse , but I wanted to be straight and it 's only making things worse . ’ |
| 29 | A serious petrol shortage is only making things worse — bus travel , crowded at the best of times , is now cruel and inhumane . |
| 30 | The added tension of waiting is only making things worse . |