Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar .
2 I am merely pointing out the disadvantages of a romantic trip without romance . ’
3 In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best .
4 By examining social processes , I am not throwing out the baby with the bath water : I do concede that inherited properties play a part .
5 I am just filling in the days , she thought — until Edmund returns .
6 At the moment I am just making up the numbers .
7 Word is coming in that rival hamlets are already filling in the forms as fast as they can put pen to paper .
8 His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike .
9 I am concerned that many young people with learning difficulties are not taking up the assessment offered in their final year of education .
10 I am happy to give my hon. Friend the assurance that we are not going down the route of a federal Europe .
11 At this point we 're only bringing in the Cherokee and the Viper , but ultimately we 'll bring in the Grand Cherokee and the minivan [ MPV ] , although we wo n't do those until we have right-hand drive versions , which may come before the next generation models .
12 So they are they 're being harsher on landlords but on the rich peasants they 're just taking back the land instead of
13 We 're just running out the material that we 've got here .
14 Because we 're massively speeding up the evolutionary process , we may well create destabilisation within the ecosystem .
15 Perhaps you 're not picking up the tone .
16 Whether it 's because they feel they 're not taking up the valuable time of a doctor , they can go at their own pace , who knows ?
17 As long as you 're not going up the village
18 You 're na you 're not going down the pit ?
19 I said No , no-one at home was , Everyone at home had said , You 're not going down the pit .
20 ’ We 're not turning over the phetam to the FedPol , ’ I told her .
21 What I should 've realized was that we 're still filling in the form
22 Oh you 're still filling in the
23 we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ?
24 But that also is the case , I mean er er , a lot of time th the actual design of our houses does n't lend itself for us to actually look even if you 're you 're permanently looking out the window .
25 The man shouts , ‘ There ai n't no hurry , you got another ten minutes ’ , but by then we 're both hammering down the escalator .
26 That shows that you 're actually picking up the sound .
27 And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there .
28 In recent years the seedsmen and the chemical companies ( the latter are rapidly taking over the former ) have been producing new varieties of hybrid seeds , fertilizers , herbicides , pesticides , and fungicides , which together have made continuous monocropping feasible .
29 People are hardly beating down the door ’ .
30 I am still paying off the sofa which came from a catalogue .
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