Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PUNK ROCK has already become horribly stymied , yet bands like Magazine and The Banshees are checking out the fresher , stranger places to take the music . |
| 2 | Customers are snapping up the top quality magazine with its wonderful photography and editorial . |
| 3 | On the plus side , the arrival of VAT on domestic supplies should encourage people to think about saving energy in the home , thereby reducing the demand on coal , oil and gas and , therefore , cutting emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO ) which are pushing up the global temperature . |
| 4 | Horse it up well and proper when you 're gathering up the damned folk . |
| 5 | You do n't , you got ta , you got ta past there and say go past there and say you 're going up the next time |
| 6 | They 're going back the other way . |
| 7 | I was gritting my teeth , thinking , ‘ Thank god we 're going down the 18th . ’ |
| 8 | I do hope you 're feeling better , and that they 're sorting out the right combination of drugs this time . |
| 9 | Come on , now , quickly , you 're holding up the whole party . ’ |
| 10 | A Morrissey fan said : ‘ By sending the original tickets you 're giving up the only proof you ever had of having bought them , which means they can just ignore you . |
| 11 | ‘ Get in and socialise with the family , ’ Peter Shearer told Mr and Mrs M. You re not just teaching one child , you 're taking on the whole family , ’ this being a family of fifteen children , some with social and behavioural problems , and eight still of school age . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree about the other address , ’ he bluffed . |
| 13 | You 're barking up the wrong tree . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree . |
| 15 | You know they 're putting up the electric lines |
| 16 | They 're wheeling out the big guns to help their campaign . |
| 17 | A sneaky scramble or climb on Laddow Rocks and you are heading down the eroded Pennine Way track to Crowden and the Longdendale Reservoirs , with the sombre northern slopes of Bleaklow frowning over them . |
| 18 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 19 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 20 | But you , only you I am afraid , yes , only you out of everyone here , are holding back the entire production . |
| 21 | At lunchtime the following day , Tuesday , February 12 , the police are breaking down the new lock which Tommy has attached to Christopher 's purple front door . |
| 22 | Some of the villages on the edge of the Baronnies look all too spruce , as if the locals had by now given way completely to immigrants wealthier than themselves , who are buying up the old houses and adding new , sometimes crassly intrusive ones . |
| 23 | They are screwing up the whole economy , not just housing . |
| 24 | While the BARB meters can record whether the VCR or an on-air programme is being watched , there is no way of telling whether people watching a time-shifted programme are cutting out the commercial breaks — or , indeed , what programme they are watching . |
| 25 | . I 'm going up the fair on er Saturday . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says . |
| 27 | We have demonstrated against petty apartheid because we are taking on the entire system of apartheid on all fronts . |
| 28 | Trees are preparing for winter and their leaves are taking on the beautiful colours of autumn . |
| 29 | We looked through the files to see how the big men at the top are sizing up the hard decisions in a man 's life |
| 30 | More interested in the style than the fashion , Huggy Bear are carrying on the feminist tradition of punk bands like The Slits and X-Ray Spex with all the musicality of Pete Duel & The Shit or Alien Sex Fiend . |