Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cumbria have a wide ranging programme including the Pilkington Roadshow in October at Workington , Egremont , Kendal , Keswick and Kirkby Lonsdale whilst David Pears is helping out at Workington on September 2nd and Wade Dooley at Kendal on September 15th . |
| 2 | A production assistant hot-footed it round to Camera 3 's position and came through with : ‘ Jeez , boss , three 's crook — he 's fell over in the heat . ’ |
| 3 | She says he 's er he 's fell over in the , you know , and er , he he 's al , he were always running , he gets on left side onto us runs to this corner , calls out to the missus |
| 4 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 5 | Now the idea is catching on in Britain , so Lydia Ascroft says have a bash at massage and look forward to a sexier , slinkier you for the long , hot summer ! |
| 6 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 7 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 8 | ‘ It is catching up with our recession , ’ Taylor says . |
| 9 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 10 | THEY are playing the blues down at Boosey & Hawkes , the international music publishers and instrument makers , because the recession is catching up with them . |
| 11 | The company is catching up with IBM UK , Bennett said , pointing to the respective performances of each . |
| 12 | Even in the realms of technical and long document publishing the Macintosh is catching up with PC-based systems ; Interleaf Publisher usually needs a PC/RT or a Sun workstation yet it runs just fine on a Macintosh II . |
| 13 | From the blurred picture you can see the vital point when the clubhead is catching up with the hands . |
| 14 | ‘ I will do as you ask for now — jet lag is catching up with me — but I warn you not to try to disappear ; your every move will be known to me almost before you make it . ’ |
| 15 | Meanwhile , though creative financing has mostly been stamped on , some councils ' past ingenuity is catching up with them . |
| 16 | The ghost of christmas future is catching up with Scrooge , and the news is grave . |
| 17 | ‘ In fact , Lynn 's a bit of a disco person and she says my age is catching up with me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Must be getting too old for this globe-trotting lark , or else my mis-spent youth is catching up on me . |
| 19 | My bachelor 's life is catching up on me . ’ |
| 20 | And erm this one is slowly closing on that one , this one is catching up on this one at quite a rate of knots . |
| 21 | Council spokesman Mike Clark admitted : ‘ Time is catching up on us . ’ |
| 22 | Verdix Corp 's Verdix Ada Development System is to go up on Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstations under an agreement between the two , and Verdix said an Ada code generator for the Oracle CASE Architecture is now available following a 1992 joint product development agreement it has with its unit Meridian Software Systems and Oracle Corp 's Oracle Federal Systems subsidiary . |
| 23 | The lower rate of SMP is to go up from £46.30 to £47.95 a week , and the weekly earnings threshold is increased from £54 to £56 . |
| 24 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 25 | It concerns me , in fact I was , I 've had a theory for a couple of years now , that what the Tories wish us all to do is to go on to the American system of medical insurance . |
| 26 | Erm , right , what I want to do this week , is to go on to the next er , work of Freud 's , that follows after erm , group psychology , or rather to the next two , because I 'm gon na back these two books together for , hi there , , erm gon na back these two books together , because as we 'll see , they , they really deal with the same subject . |
| 27 | What is the use of continuing our race if it is to go on in darkness ? ’ |
| 28 | They go with the will of the people and the will of the people is to go along with the President , I 've been in politics a long time . |
| 29 | LADY DAVERS : Pamela is to go along with me . |
| 30 | She has to be — dotty , I mean — to do something she dearly does n't want to do , that is to go along from here with her husband and the bomb on the lugger . ’ |