Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Necessary jobs are helping to clear up the smaller branches and making a start on repointing the bridge itself . |
| 2 | The families of two teenage joyriders shot dead by troops in Belfast are demanding to know why the checkpoint patrol had to kill them . |
| 3 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 4 | Further to our meeting last Friday , I am writing to set out the advice and assistance that we are able to provide in connection with the intended sale of Older Business Limited . |
| 5 | In connection with the role you have asked me to undertake in the dispute between Mr D Smith and the other directors of and shareholders in Smith & Co Limited , I am writing to set out the nature of the responsibilities which you wish me to perform . |
| 6 | In this final stage of the diet we are looking to put together the best diet for your own metabolism and make-up , based on your findings . |
| 7 | There 's a bloody riot going on , the town is crammed with nigs , er blacks , and they are looking to sort out the Young Conservatives . |
| 8 | Established firms are tending to scoop up the talent in the market which is still in second-tier houses — without which they will not survive . |
| 9 | Police are wanting to find out the events leading up to the death , and work out the motive for the killing . |
| 10 | We 're , we 're going to conclude now the discussion of the various ways in which , bacteria , in particular er lead to the production of infective disease and really to centre round , centres round the discussion of the pathogenesis , that is the mechanism by which the disease is produced and lunanspach . |
| 11 | We 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 , we 're going to make everybody including Athens proud . |
| 12 | er I do n't know how to answer that question , all I can say is we 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 and we 're going to make everybody , including Athens I hope , proud . |
| 13 | In fact , we 've stolen some nuclear weapons and we 're going to tell the government we 're going to blow up the whole country unless they let us play Wembley . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We 're going to hang up the washing on the Siegfried Line … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The question of whether we 're going to clean up the environment of this country is long over , ’ he told a press conference . |
| 16 | The first year you 're running on adrenalin and you 're going to take on the world . |
| 17 | I think that the I think the question of that really , I 'm trying to , I ca n't quite frankly , I think that 's Mike Kirkham in this who particularly investigated that one , but I think that basically what we were really saying was on what I was saying earlier on is that if you make it too difficult for the employers , you 're going to take away the incentive to run a final salary scheme , you know that you know I think basically final salary pension schemes are good for the employee , you know , I think that was what our fundamental thinking of on that was . |
| 18 | And I think we 're going to have exactly the same thing with this opting out system . |
| 19 | " And I suppose you 're going to slip out the kitchen door , " she continued , " which you might be able to do if you time it right and both Mrs James and Mr Gerard are distracted but how are you going to bet back in ? " |
| 20 | If you 're going to keep up the same pattern of commitments the answer is that the army is already stretched as it clan be and so are the other two services and this is putting a terrific strain on the individual servicemen and their families . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're going to ride out the storm . ’ |
| 22 | You 're going to write out the questions and I 'm going to give your questions to another person and then you 're going to get it back to mark it . |
| 23 | So she 's phoned , and I says , ask them if they 're coming to board up the windows which were boarded when she went in ? |
| 24 | They 're from one of the country Women 's Institutes , and they 're coming to check out the suitability of the bush walk for a much larger party — most of them elderly . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're managing to pick up the sound of one of the males , ’ said a marine biologist , Vassili Papastavrou , as he listened intently through a set of headphones . |
| 26 | I think they 're trying to do exactly the opposite . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We 're trying to point out the buildings which have stood the test of time ; buildings built by craftsmen who knew what they were doing , who used quality materials , ’ she added . |
| 28 | She says that they 're trying to clear up the waste created by thousands of people — it 's a long job and they may not have time to do it all . |
| 29 | And we 're trying to find out the opp so we want something that ties up opp and adjacent . |
| 30 | So the adapters are attempting to get up the career using sort of tried and tested ways of digging and sort of hauling each other up , and this sort of thing . |