Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three of them are sitting round a low table with three cups of coffee , and Paul is trying to entertain the visitor . |
| 2 | I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing . |
| 3 | Q I am setting up a 54″. × 24″ × 24″ tank for dwarf cichlids . |
| 4 | Q I am setting up a 48″ × 12″ × 22″ tank to simulate the Amazon basin . |
| 5 | I am setting up a tank , 6′ × 2′ × 2′ , for dwarf cichlids , Egyptian Mouthbrooders , and single ( not pairs of ) Geophagines , especially G. jurupari and G. balzanii . |
| 6 | I am setting up a 36″ × 12″ × 18″ tank , in which I hope to keep Clown Fish , a Yellow Tang , a Regal Tang , a Hawk Fish , a Fire Goby and a Cleaner Shrimp . |
| 7 | I am setting up an information service for the carers of people with mental health problems . |
| 8 | Siban commands , and I am to carry out the reconnaissance . ’ |
| 9 | Of course , I am leaving out the personality element . |
| 10 | I am sending out a list of participants to each person , reminding them to please assemble at , but preferably not much before , 1345 for a prompt 1400 start . |
| 11 | I am driving along a narrow main road , used by fast-moving traffic , with my children in the back seat . |
| 12 | Yea , though I run down the valleys , I am Towed up the hills . |
| 13 | I am arriving off an early train from Oxford or Cambridge , my mind full of Marmite and shirts . |
| 14 | By 4 January 1927 , the full force of Nizan 's anger , repressed for so many years , could no longer be held in check : The effect of the solitude at Aden is that I am storing up a violence that was unknown to me … |
| 15 | ‘ The job took over my life , although I 'm slowing down a bit now , ’ he says . |
| 16 | I 'm breaking up the band anyway . |
| 17 | I 'm breaking up the spaghetti cos I hate it in long lengths ! |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know my lines and I 'm dragging down the rest of the cast . ’ |
| 19 | You know , I 'm bringing up the child the best I can , she has plenty of love I love her very much ! |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm building up an exposé on the methods they use , how they victimize people all over the world . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm picking up a powerful field of daemonic shielding from this hulk . |
| 22 | I 'm picking up the PR material in a couple of weeks . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says . |
| 24 | I 'm looking down the garden that 's lovely ! |
| 25 | I 'm taking on the question of violence , this most difficult question . |
| 26 | It strikes me , as I 'm hanging around a dressing room the size of a barn , that Carter have wound up more people again this year than any other British band in the Top 40 — with the possible exception of The Levellers . |
| 27 | In sum , I 'm writing off an odd paradox , criticising her for sometimes seeing herself as second best when Katell Keineg so patently is n't . |
| 28 | Every day I do n't manage to catch the same bus home as you do , I 'm fed up the whole evening . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm soaking up the wisdom , ’ Oscar replied . |
| 30 | ‘ Lee , I 'm dishing out the borscht . ’ |