Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [am/are] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But obviously there 's something radically wrong with his knee and the signs are telling me that it is a cartilage problem . |
| 2 | I would hope that in a competitive situation i it is happening now un under a non-competitive situation , er the clients are giving us written remits erm and I think we 'll be going further down the path . |
| 3 | Gradually , though , a baby 's brain learns to cope with the information the eyes are feeding it and by six months , most babies have more or less normal sight . |
| 4 | Leeds have bought so many players in the past few months that it is tempting to call the club New Leeds — although the fans are calling them Dad 's Army because they have bought so many stars over 30 . |
| 5 | the fans are catching it . |
| 6 | Even as the guards are ushering them into the corridor , the carriage rolls into an immense echoing workshop . |
| 7 | Gorbachev then announced his resignation offer because " 70 per cent of the speakers are criticizing me , not from a personal point of view but on behalf of the people " . |
| 8 | Since then , this deserted corner of King 's Reach Tower has been my spiritual home , but I gradually overcame the contemptuous disdain which is heaped on all outsiders and now , finally , I feel the natives are accepting me as one of their own . |
| 9 | The Eagles are finding it difficult to take off but were still compared with a high-flying elite — the SAS . |
| 10 | With the fine weather the gypsies are hoping it 'll be a runaway success . |
| 11 | Yeah come where the jocks are strapping , come where the feet are clapping me come where the hands are clapping , come where the feet are strapping , come where |
| 12 | When the feet are hurting it shows in the face , as well as making you thoroughly miserable , so go to see a qualified chiropodist . |
| 13 | It seems as if a disillusionment , the communists are trying you know , trying policies |
| 14 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 15 | But he 's also saying is n't he at the end of this paragraph , or he 's implying that th this is this revolution is not happening because we the communists are making it happen , it is happening and we need to react to it and somehow we 've therefore got a choice , we can either trail behind or we can lead it . |
| 16 | ‘ The cash is in place , and the bankers are supporting him . ’ |
| 17 | The fuckers are deporting him . |
| 18 | If you water plants thoroughly as the fruits are ripening you should increase the weight of the crop . |
| 19 | In the Concerto especially , both soloist and conductor take the work entirely seriously , and make a substantial case for it as one of the leading Concertos of its time — the days are leaving us at least when Gershwin 's ‘ serious ’ works ( those are n't my scare quotes ) were treated like the fortuitous good fortune of the upstart seven-year-old playing in big brother 's room , as if he composed them by accident . |
| 20 | The insects are egging him on . |
| 21 | ‘ The flies are driving me mad . ’ |
| 22 | There 's still plenty of work left to do on Beryl and the organisers are hoping they 'll be able to keep the project going after the renovation is complete . |
| 23 | And I believe the Trees are judging us , thought Snizort . |
| 24 | Now this is an appalling situation , er th the B C C I 's books were certified by the auditors as a true and fair record from December nineteenth er December thirty first nineteen er eighty seven forward a and that meant that people had confidence in B C C I , here we 're told that the auditors are giving it er a certificate of a a true and fair record er encouraging therefore people to in t to invest and yet prior to nineteen eighty nine Price Waterhouse knew of gross irregularities er in B C C I 's handling of loads , particularly the load to C C A H which was the holding company for First American er bank shares . |
| 25 | And then the stairs the stairs are facing you like that , so you 've only got about about a metre of in between the bottom of the stairs and your front door and you s just sort of go in through there an and you 're in the living room . |
| 26 | Slowly curl the dumb-bells upwards to shoulder height , twisting them gradually during the full movement until the palms are facing you . |
| 27 | Helen Carson discovers why the sisters are doin' it for themselves Women building on success |
| 28 | If you did n't know the tunes , you 'd assume Holly 's lyrics decorated some innocent backporch spooners from the turn-of-the-century : ‘ Stars appear and the shadows are fallin' You can hear my honey callin' . ’ |
| 29 | Cos I think all the mothers are bringing it |
| 30 | I keep thinking I 'm going to get stamped on , even when the clots are calling me Franz . |