Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well a cos then you can pick them up altogether if , are you with me , if you 're doing the rounds for your friends cos some of them 'll be on there and some 'll be Pick them up from the front , it 's just that some of the stuff will be at the front and some of it wo n't . |
| 2 | The Church should not be helping him up , but helping him over : false optimism does not need a helping hand ; it needs firstly the truth , and secondly love to salve the lost illusions and move on to a fuller humanity ( Walker 1986 : 214 ) . |
| 3 | It 's been fairly blustery the odd day but there 's frost and especially the snow that they 've had down further south it seems to be helping us up here I would say and it 's with the with the land work especially got the slurry and stuff of that kind . |
| 4 | ‘ The guitars always seem to be drowning him out , ’ she complained , with some justification . |
| 5 | No no , so everybody should be given it up till then to pay anyway should n't they ? |
| 6 | I understand that the French envoy , de Craon , will be seeing her off . ’ |
| 7 | She must be seeing him off . |
| 8 | And I hope we 'll be seeing you back on the field soon . |
| 9 | The whole problem was going to be catching her off her guard . |
| 10 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 11 | She pretended to be mulling it over . |
| 12 | ‘ Once she 's recovered , you will be bringing her back to Lomond View ? ’ |
| 13 | " I might be bringing him back with me . |
| 14 | ‘ And will she be bringing them down here to stay do you think ? ’ |
| 15 | I hope , and I shall be bringing it up at the next police committee , that we will commit ourselves to that initiative will a view to bringing in those two pilot schemes in the county and extending it at a later date . |
| 16 | I just worry , as usual , that I shall be mopping you up for months to come . ’ |
| 17 | Alain was getting quite hot under the collar and Dieter seemed to be winding him up on purpose . ’ |
| 18 | He was supposed to be fattening them up , but instead , the cattle were starving , one was being attacked by rats , and the sheep were penned in broken glass with no food or water . |
| 19 | Yeah , she 's always been alright with me , you know , so I ca n't say about anybody else , I mean she 's already , she 's always been really nice to me , but like them people she goes around , well she used to go around with Lisa and Vicky and all that lot and when she used to go around with them she used to be bitching them off behind their back and going oh you 're my best friend , to their faces . |
| 20 | ‘ Then since you appear to be singling me out , what do you expect me to do ? |
| 21 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 22 | " I thought now was supposed to be the marvellous time , and we 're all meant to be living it up , burning the candle at both ends , finding out what we want to do with our lives . " |
| 23 | At this moment he will be getting ready to take Ana out for a meal and the theatre , then he will be escorting her back to her hotel — and Maria . ’ |
| 24 | In other words , sacramenta procta hominas the sacraments are for the good of men and woman , of course the hominas in Latin includes both , it 's inclusive language for the sake of er well of certain persons who will be picking me up |
| 25 | Do n't be picking me up . |
| 26 | they might be picking you up , at ten o'clock |
| 27 | I may be warning you off that Nigel fellow , but I may be worse . |
| 28 | I would n't be filling them up if they were n't blank , are they all blank ? |
| 29 | But they can be good at conveying what it was like for them to be there , and to be writing it down . |
| 30 | When they reach their destination , the driver stops the car beneath a rare working streetlamp and his passenger feels a tremor of recognition , but is reassured by Valentin that he has heard all the jokes before and he wo n't be passing them on to his mother . |