Example sentences of "be [v-ing] they [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Finns are seeing them off , or so the papers say . ’ |
| 2 | Bad when we meet someone at the station , but unbearable when we are seeing them off ; not present when we are departing ourselves , but unbearable when arriving in London , if only from a day in Brighton . ’ |
| 3 | While I ca n't condone this sort of cheating Mr Unce , I have found two very good methods are tucking them down your sock or writing them on your shirt cuff . |
| 4 | It is really , well I 've been hanging them out because it 's , that 's such an effort , you know what the cleaner s |
| 5 | It throws a much colder light on those satisfaction ratings if , unlike in their relationships with their accountants , clients are basing them on just the service delivered during a one-off transaction . |
| 6 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 7 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ People have been writing them off as long as I can remember , but they love nothing better than proving their critics wrong , ’ he said . |
| 9 | are snapping them up |
| 10 | I ca n't remember if I did cos I 've been picking them up . |
| 11 | In Midnight Run he was fine , but since then he 's been cranking them out , turning in performances which are almost parodic rehashes of the masculine confusions and bullish challenges of his past roles . |
| 12 | If there is an incident when friends walk away because she has been ordering them around , explain to her why that happened . |
| 13 | Yeah and she gets points for doing it do n't you , you 've been saving them up have n't you ? |
| 14 | You 're sticking them back into a |
| 15 | Let's , what you 're doing is you 're winding them up Den . |
| 16 | You 're keeping them up |
| 17 | So we emphasize that when we 're signing them up make sure you ask when these people come through where they have seen or where how did they find out about us . |
| 18 | I said , the way they 're picking them out , I could n't say that they can guarantee every bearing . |
| 19 | Well you know you 're writing them down are n't you ? |
| 20 | By and large most cognitive processes are a mixture of the two and in fact it depends on the context that you 're operating them in , we tend to be able to split from one to the other . |
| 21 | The coach outside gives the game away — Colchester prodigies The Penny Arcade are playing away and they 're bussing 'em in from Essex . |
| 22 | The coach outside gives the game away — Colchester prodigies The Penny Arcade are playing away and they 're bussing 'em in from Essex . |
| 23 | and they 're selling them off , gold , gold prices have dropped , you can get a metre , a cubic metre of gold for , say , a million pounds ? |
| 24 | And you were saying , oh yeah , we found these porno magazines and we 're selling them off to perverts . |
| 25 | What we 're paying them on . |
| 26 | Ooh you 're getting them on . |
| 27 | the only thing again that I 'm thinking of what if we gets them out of the caravan and we gets them into the car and we 're getting them in and out here and then we gets them back into the car to take them back over and in to the caravan , what if we rip the bloody things ? |
| 28 | They 're sending them out to bookshops all over the country … thousands have already been sold , and the way things are at the moment there does n't look like any let up in sight . |
| 29 | But , there are a couple of them we 're cutting them down . |
| 30 | They 're giving them out beforehand so that , so |