Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Geophysical Observatory in Port Moresby have over the years provided us with very useful earthquake data and are helping us monitor the after shocks which are sill being felt in the Tari area . ’ |
| 2 | Her school are sponsoring me to have the baby that day — Comic Relief day — providing we have photos taken of me and ( later ) the baby with red noses on . |
| 3 | All this time she had been imagining him pacing the terrace at Rocamar . |
| 4 | As we can see , though , new concerns with how writing interacts with history are causing us to abandon the idea of literary study as something caught up with the transcendental . |
| 5 | Some congressmen are pushing it to sell the rest as fast as it can . |
| 6 | ‘ The four local MPs are urging them to sell the yard to the Merseyside Development Corporation . |
| 7 | Sounds as if you 've a strain , the way you 're walking you know the |
| 8 | When you 're revising you said the other night , you cover the answers up and try the question . |
| 9 | They 're teaching them to pull the trigger at the Academy of Marksmanship . |
| 10 | yes , it 's tonight , it 's filling in the application form , but we 're asking you to read the scenario so you know a little bit about the people , and then this is all the information that 's been gathered . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're saying they think the man … the man who killed father locked himself in ? ’ |
| 12 | Neighbour Stuart Partlett said : ‘ We 're hoping he gets the all-clear and shows them all by taking the gold . |
| 13 | I am expecting you to do the same . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He 's been pressuring me to sell the land next to this house , ’ David said . |
| 15 | John Griffith Williams QC , for the defence , said : ‘ I 'm suggesting you saw the knife a week earlier . ’ |
| 16 | We will be urging him to withdraw the eligibility cuts , and to work with the legal profession , and the consumer organisations — to find less damaging ways of containing legal aid expenditure . ’ |
| 17 | Now of course the man at the top was depending on the man er Er the man at the bottom er was depending on the man at the top to be holding it to stop the weight fall on him . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm teaching them to hold the pencil properly and write their names , ’ she says . |
| 19 | But I 'm begging you to tell the panel how to do it please . |
| 20 | If you achieved such a quantity of quality work in the theatre , they would be tipping you to lead the RSC . |
| 21 | And just as soon as you feel up to it , we 'll be taking you round the garden for some good lungfuls of God 's air . ’ |
| 22 | er , well I 'm , I 'm a waitress and erm when I 'm working I consider the restaurant my stage and I have to be somebody else because I 'm worried that you know who I am is n't good enough to entertain these people . |
| 23 | It must be killing him to have the Old Man expecting him to play barman to me ! |
| 24 | If you get in the wrong part of a ruck and they think you are stopping them getting the ball , you get raked . |
| 25 | Silas told me he had been taking you round the sheep . ’ |
| 26 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 27 | In the excitement of his new job and other things that were happening he pushed the thought of Chris to the back of his mind until he realised that Maureen looked red-eyed and unhappy . |
| 28 | Thousands of officers in London today were pressing him to ignore the report altogether . |
| 29 | To me they were ordering her to have the baby , which was n't fair . |
| 30 | Erm because people were saying you know the Y D P's coming to an end but |