Example sentences of "is [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is helping him out cos he ai n't got a job . |
| 2 | in effect what you 're doing is helping us out with the cost that we incurred in getting it and the help that we 've done you . |
| 3 | Toshack has a two-year contract worth £600,000 ( figure courtesy of The Sun ) and an awful lot to do if he is to see it out . |
| 4 | Said all you got ta do is make it out for a |
| 5 | He is talking to me as if I could be a partner in his business : he is drawing me in . |
| 6 | and his sister married to Joe Gardurey , is bringing him up and she resents him . |
| 7 | If making it more fun is bringing it up to date then I 'm all in favour |
| 8 | A very simple way of collecting examples of people talking is to sit them down in front of the camera and get them to talk to it . |
| 9 | With this last push Penguin is building her up for HarperCollins to take over , for she is on the move . |
| 10 | He is stroking her back , kissing her face . |
| 11 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 12 | Nobody is bring me down ( said with anger ) . |
| 13 | It 's the whole system which is tucking us up . |
| 14 | If you 've got something different , please , the important thing is to write it down , think about it , write it down , get a photograph of it . |
| 15 | She can see that Tommy is hyping him up . |
| 16 | you do is hang it over on the clothes line , stand back a few inches , just give it an even spray , |
| 17 | The loop will now be round the person 's body and all you have to do is to pull it down and ask the volunteer to step out of it . |
| 18 | That bloody gaff we 're livin' in now is gettin' 'er down . |
| 19 | One way to see plenty of birds at close range is to attract them in to your own garden . |
| 20 | Whether you I mean a the problem with that is keeping it up to date on |
| 21 | In the desert , the problem is keeping it in . |
| 22 | It is keeping it off though , is n't it ? |
| 23 | Spends his life trading paintings for a glass of wine and a fuck ; a hundred years later , some toffee-nosed clown at Sotheby 's is knocking them out for upwards of eight million . |
| 24 | I have the right to know what she is doing and , if she is having an affair , it has got to stop because it is driving me out of my mind . ’ |
| 25 | Well , Marcus said he 'd come and see Pat , and Ludens is driving him down in the Bentley ! |
| 26 | ‘ One of the mistresses is driving her back . |
| 27 | ‘ What you are saying is that I am not so much searching for Harry , rather , Harry is winding me in , like a fish on a line — ’ |
| 28 | The conventional way of cleaning fabrics is to cart them off to the washing machine , wash them , dry them , and cart them back again . |
| 29 | ‘ Nelson Mandela is twisting them around his little finger . ’ |
| 30 | The other thing is to talk it over with your line manager , so that if you 've picked something up you want to implement yourself back at , in the workplace then |