Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If for instance erm Fred Bloggs at the end of the office is sick on Friday he turns off his P C at lunchtime and goes home and we do the software upgrade during the afternoon on Friday , then his P C wo n't get the upgrade to the software because we 're sending it down the network . |
| 2 | I said oh just when it got dark really I said we 're having it down the house , I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass |
| 3 | You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing . |
| 4 | If you are asking me where the remedy lies , my answer is that I have told you before and I shall go on telling you , and you know perfectly well what it is , though everybody thinks that it is too difficult and that therefore there must be a different remedy . |
| 5 | I suspect Mrs feels she ought to be signing them not the |
| 6 | Said what 's wrong , he says Raymond I 'm taking him down the Grosvenor Road and there 's fucking old Paddy , we used to work with him , standing outside the f you know opposite The Royal ? |
| 7 | ‘ This morning I 'm taking you up the coast to my house overlooking the Sound , and if the weather stays as good as it is at the moment we 'll spend the afternoon on the beach at Hornbaek , which means we 'll go right past Kronberg — we can even stop off and take the tour if it appeals to you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ No , they be taking him up the churchyard to see if ‘ e likes it . ’ |
| 9 | And that brings us to the end of another fun half hour — tomorrow Katie Wood will be showing us how the other half relax when she mixes with the toffs on a country house weekend near John O'Groats . |
| 10 | Surely the Conservative Government have already set out proposals for such a programme : they should be telling him where the money would come from . |
| 11 | Soon all who were following me were leading me so the chances were that they were not following me though they could still be following me by leading me and then waiting around to ambush etcetera etcetera ; but of course not . |
| 12 | My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day . |
| 13 | They were reading it down the tape and I had to tape it all . |
| 14 | But I thought we wanted to keep this a low profile bungalow and that 's pushing it up the same as the other one in Grey Lane went up . |
| 15 | Yeah , she 's meeting her up the Tavern . |
| 16 | He 's showing us where the first confronta-tion occurred . |
| 17 | He felt tired , slightly drunk and frightened ; if an assassin was hunting him then the dark runnels of Edinburgh at night would only provide fresh opportunities . |
| 18 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 19 | He was asking them how the hunt had begun , and what had happened before we joined it . |
| 20 | Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere . |
| 21 | Bruce was showing him how the new tree planting was coming on . |
| 22 | Vincent 's conscience was telling him precisely the opposite , and at the top of its voice . |
| 23 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 24 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |