Example sentences of "'re [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Anyway , if you 're goin' to tea with the toffs you 'd better get scrubbed down and pick out some decent clothes . ’ |
2 | It decreases the possibility of , of getting out of that situation because you 've got so many other people against , against whom you 're competing for work . |
3 | They 're competing for access to male pouches , what mammalian males are doing is competing for access to female uteruses because it 's only in a female uterus that an offspring can develop if you 're a mammal . |
4 | Despite the protest they 're sticking to location and design |
5 | ‘ Not that I know of ; we 're firing at knee height . ’ |
6 | And you could live in the country on what you 're wasting in rent for this dump ! ’ |
7 | The kind of these are the kind of things that we 're using for drink . |
8 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
9 | ‘ And you 're reverting to type , sweetheart . |
10 | " It 's difficult to be patient when you 're dying of hypothermia . " |
11 | Even if you 're dying in prison , the screws do n't want to know . |
12 | Erm , certainly when you 're , you 're very young , I mean that when you 're driving for attention . |
13 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
14 | We should n't be doing it — we 're walking into danger ! |
15 | Apart from helping you see where you 're walking at night , they will increase home security and also enhance your favourite trees and shrubs , garden pools and any other special features . |
16 | You feel , at the end of the treatment you feel as if you 're walking on air ! |
17 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
18 | As the last said , it does not have to be , 'cos you felt that someone else had some more energy , 'cos you 're praying for energy performs and you sited some examples . |
19 | It got to the stage where we thought we were going to have to pull the idea of actually demonstrating skiing , but I follow if you 're writing about skiing , you at least had to show the difficulty of putting the boots on , and putting the skis on and side-stepping up the hill , and then finding yourself in a snow-plough position , and then turning around . |
20 | Erm , they 're writing on behalf of the , to apply for a grant as detailed in the advert , erm , and basically , erm , it 's , it , they 're , they 're , they 're really asking for us for help to keep the thing running . |
21 | The main reason our children try drugs is that they 're searching for pleasure , and the main reason they carry on is that they 've found it . |
22 | The trouble is if you start using it then everybody else thinks you 're listening to music and they 'll start bring theirs in . |
23 | You 're listening to Dial David Johnston on Max A M. |
24 | You 're listening to Dial David Johnston , Max A M. |
25 | You 're listening to Dial David Johnston on Max A M. |
26 | You 're listening to Dial David Johnston , 's the number to dial . |
27 | You 're listening to afternoon special it 's three o'clock . |
28 | Well what do you think if there 's a mass migration from Soviet territories , should we absorb those immigrants into the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe , it 's just after half past nine , you 're listening to Radio Four , this is Nick Ross , we 're discussing , as you 've no doubt gathered , events in the Soviet Union and how they affect us , what , if anything we can do to influence them . |
29 | You 're listening to Radio Nottingham Sport with Martin . |
30 | You 're listening to Radio Nottingham Sport with Martin . |