Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I am leaving out the personality element . |
| 2 | I 'm breaking up the band anyway . |
| 3 | I 'm breaking up the spaghetti cos I hate it in long lengths ! |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know my lines and I 'm dragging down the rest of the cast . ’ |
| 5 | You know , I 'm bringing up the child the best I can , she has plenty of love I love her very much ! |
| 6 | I 'm picking up the PR material in a couple of weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says . |
| 8 | I 'm looking down the garden that 's lovely ! |
| 9 | I 'm taking on the question of violence , this most difficult question . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm soaking up the wisdom , ’ Oscar replied . |
| 11 | ‘ Lee , I 'm dishing out the borscht . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm goin' up the market , I 'll walk along wiv yer , ’ Florrie said , straightening the wide lapel of her shabby coat . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm goin' down the Town ‘ All an' 'ave a word wiv that medical bloke . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm nipping down the market , ’ he informed wife number eight |
| 15 | I mean , he 's all , I mean he walked in the door , he was , I 'm coming down the garden , and erm , he walked down the garden and he 'd seen me , and he started really smiling . |
| 16 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |
| 17 | . I 'm going up the fair on er Saturday . |
| 18 | I 'm going up the garage anyway , alright ? |
| 19 | According to Alan , they would always say ‘ I 'm going down the Quimbourne tonight ’ ( the name of the community centre ) , as if visiting a pub or club , and not ‘ I 'm going to the Young Conservatives . ’ |
| 20 | Right I 'm going down the chippie |
| 21 | Oh cos I 'm going down the shop |
| 22 | I 've planned me route , I 'm going down the M six , I need to come off at the spaghetti junction whatever it is , and I 'm going to check me clock and I 'm going allow plenty of time to get there . |
| 23 | Er no we had some larger other income erm I 'm turning up the detail as we speak . |
| 24 | As a matter of interest , I 'm totting up the sum of his holdings as I go along . |
| 25 | no , I 'm finishing off the bits that are left |
| 26 | I were weighing up the value of the frame |
| 27 | One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse . |
| 28 | I was trundling out the obvious . ’ |
| 29 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 30 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |