Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of them are going out of the area , but I think er I 'd imagine that a large majority or a a large proportion certainly would wish to stay in . |
| 2 | Dixie and I are dressed up for the Island . |
| 3 | Hamish and I are going over to the Island to see her next weekend . |
| 4 | Hi , After lengthy negotiations in private , Gav & I are going along to the Sunderland game together on Wednesday . |
| 5 | If you are to move about in the senior echelons of industry , this is an important ability to develop . |
| 6 | If you are not eligible to be put in if you do n't have a motor car then you 're discounting an enormous number of people who may have motorcycles or motor caravans or , you know , something which is perfectly valid but it invalidates the information that you think you are getting out of the file because you only put in certain perfectly reasonable , groups of er of things and i in , in , in Boots there 's a , there 's a er there 's a a wonderful expression or actually is , is the one I 'm particularly thinking about , you know we , we sell shall we say a million bottles of aspirin a year , it is in fact considerably more than that , and that is perfectly reasonable and valid and mm but in the definition of that we obviously only included what Boots the Chemists sold because that 's all the people who |
| 7 | It is the same as in the last exercise except that you are bent over from the waist . |
| 8 | If , for instance , you are pushed over in the playground , would it be all right to push the aggressor in return ? |
| 9 | If you are walking down into the centre along Avenida do Infante , after the Savoy Hotel you pass the modern Casino Park Hotel and , behind it , the new Casino . |
| 10 | The better your plan , the more likely you are to end up in the right place . |
| 11 | Once you are wrapped around by the cirque you realize that it is not beautiful but what in the eighteenth century they knew as ‘ sublime ’ . |
| 12 | You are heading out into the Atlantic and the next landfall is Canada . ’ |
| 13 | This ha , es you feel like you are coming down into the ball , which is a more positive feeling . |
| 14 | Now you are coming out into the open . |
| 15 | When you are working back from the cosine , sine or tangent you do n't know which of the 2 possible angles is correct . |
| 16 | When you are starting out in the music business there seems to be an impenetrable jungle of initials to understand : MCPS , PPL , MPA , PRS , BASCA , BMI , ASCAP ; the list seems endless ! so what are they all for ? |
| 17 | As you turn the corner towards the church of St Mary , which was enthusiastically restored in the picturesque style during the nineteenth century , you are bowled over by the beauty of this grandest of farms . |
| 18 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 19 | As a world-wide Church we are sent out into the whole world — we are not just a localised unit of believers . |
| 20 | And we are swallowed up from the world , carried in this room to a glade of an enchanted forest , magnificent and unbounded , where stand groves of pine and walnut and chestnut . |
| 21 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 22 | But we accept that there is not a customer for this work and we are getting on with the job of ensuring that the business as a whole continues to develop positively . |
| 23 | To answer this question we are led back to the idea of big gassy planets like Jupiter spitting out small rocky ones like Venus , which then play a sort of cosmic billiards before settling down . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 25 | We are moving on with the medical services . |
| 26 | We 're moving to Shanghai with mixed feelings , as we 've heard we 'll be staying in the Peace Hotel , in the noisy centre of the city , but it 's nice to feel now that we are moving on to the home stretch . |
| 27 | De Klerk said his visit showed South Africa and the world that " we are moving back to the fold " . |
| 28 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 29 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 30 | I believe I told you that we are to move on to the Astors ? ’ |