Example sentences of "'re [v-ing] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're building up a knowledge base , you 're not just building up lots of odd facts like you know , how many people live in China , or |
| 2 | and they 're building up a petition so he 's now got a office he 's had he 's had three offices |
| 3 | ‘ You 're presuming rather a lot , ’ the Doctor pointed out , ‘ from a heap of crumbled ruins . ’ |
| 4 | Erm it is , but we 're l we 're seeing quite a lot about how brackets work in algebra . |
| 5 | Well we 're catching up a bit . |
| 6 | If you 're eighteen to twenty four years old and you 're bringing up a child on your own . |
| 7 | They 're bringing out a video , you know . |
| 8 | You 're using up a lot more disk space than you are memory space . |
| 9 | So they 're keeping up a mystery to stay even with us . |
| 10 | 'Cos , like , just 'cos you 're gettin' on a bit does n't mean you ca n't wear fab gear an' pull groovy chicks an' that . |
| 11 | For example , you 're filling out a questionnaire in a magazine and one question is , ‘ Most men are : a ) gorgeous ; b ) called Tyrone ; or c ) often unhygienic ’ . |
| 12 | Oh and they 're slumbering rather a lot are they ? |
| 13 | But if you 're looking down a back entry or something , you ca n't always be there . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're turning down a sum like that ? ’ |
| 15 | You 're going up a ladder are you ? |
| 16 | Yeah I think you will just pop it on then just looks such a mess when you 're going round a bit like that but I 'm afraid |
| 17 | No , no C and B this time , we 're going down a bit , it 's in your left hand |
| 18 | ‘ You take the kid 's word and you 're going down a tunnel , might be a wrong-way tunnel , ’ Nick said . |
| 19 | Yeah , but then you 're going out a distance are n't you ? |
| 20 | Now I accept that if you 're adding up a column of figures you ca n't say well it 's within a few thousand well that 'll do . |
| 21 | She says you have to be brusque with them because they 're getting on a bit , you know . |
| 22 | No well we 'll , look we 're getting quite , we 're getting quite a lot of erm attention . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're slowing down a bit now . |
| 24 | They 're phasing quite a lot . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The only reason they 're kicking up a stink is because they do n't like rave music . ’ |
| 26 | Lesley and Fuzz from Silverfish turn up from New York , where they 're sorting out a record deal . |
| 27 | That was the boss ; all the other crews are already on task and D Squadron needs a new gearbox in one of its Chieftains — it 's about six miles from here so they 're sending out a truck with the spares and we 're to meet it there . ’ |
| 28 | And all this is being done because on the twelfth of February , we 're having here a sort of super duper accurate medieval banquet . |
| 29 | Well , we 're on the second summer , just finishing now , and we 're having quite a lot of produce coming off the plots , and we 're hoping to start an orchard as well , just to keep it developing . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're doing quite a lot of research in most of these areas — though of course we all agree we ought to do more . |