Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [is] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you consider ideas like killing or biting , for example , Kalkadoon uses a suffix -tu to indicate who is carrying out the action — in grammatical terms to mark the ‘ subject ’ of the transitive verb . |
| 2 | But do you know who 's following on from cos I 'd take it upon myself |
| 3 | Pity she 's covered up that copper head . |
| 4 | It will be quite hard as well cos say something 's coming up behind you , the only way you can see is to go like that . |
| 5 | A household that feels ‘ neutral ’ or empty may indicate that the woman who lives there is cut off from her own emotions . |
| 6 | And you do n't actually know it 's going off do you ? |
| 7 | But I have n't forgotten he 's coming back . |
| 8 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 9 | That 's , that 's , that 's a , that 's a straight line , and you say it 's speeding up ? |
| 10 | Friends say he 's taken on too much . |
| 11 | The make-up artist 's tip for applying it is to look down , place wand to the base of lashes and roll them back as you run the wand from root to tip . |
| 12 | When the issue is addressed it is skirted around , it seems to us , by the unwillingness of all three of the authors concerned — understandable perhaps because of their daily closeness to the victims of mental illness — to see beyond the pathology of the psychotic state itself ; their failure to appreciate our — or rather Sylvia Plath 's — point made earlier : that when insane the psychotic individual is too preoccupied struggling against overpersonalised or idiosyncratic thoughts to create effectively . |
| 13 | This may not always be on a personal level — it could be in your work when you make an inner stand refusing to accept what is dished out to you by shutting that inner door . |
| 14 | In this way you will be able to relate what is going on while not actually experiencing it . |
| 15 | ‘ Overseas Governments and local nationals just wo n't stand for it , particularly when they get to know what 's going on . |
| 16 | ‘ I like you to know what 's going on . |
| 17 | The headmaster has to know what 's going on … ’ |
| 18 | Seve always wants to know what 's going on . |
| 19 | Some will be knocking on my door and demanding to know what 's going on . |
| 20 | I have as much right to know what 's going on as they do . |
| 21 | She 's too young to know what 's going on . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's only really the chap on the ground who gets to know what 's going on , gets chatting — and not just chatting with the management of the firm — chatting with the chap that runs the pretreatment plant , y'know , having a cup of tea with him and generally getting to know the individuals and the characters . |
| 23 | ‘ The ordinary public would n't be interested , but some people , people like me , for instance , have to know what 's going on in town . |
| 24 | I always like to know what 's going on , so I listened , and watched , and looked at all his women friends . |
| 25 | That reminds me of the ghosts who really want to know what 's going on . |
| 26 | The press , the TV and the radio would like to know what 's going on and , incidentally , so would I. Kersey does n't know , or he does and is n't saying . ’ |
| 27 | You liked it , if you 've been active at all you 'd want to know what 's going on . |
| 28 | ‘ 'If the Headmaster wants to know what 's going on , it 's my job to tell him . |
| 29 | Those roses smell very iffy to me , and I want to know what 's going on . ’ |
| 30 | Q : But surely people need to know what 's going on ? |