Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since he 's been up here , he 's been eating me out of house and home and he does n't pay for it |
| 2 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 3 | Recently it seems to have been bringing him out in anxiety attacks once again . |
| 4 | You 've been encouraging it up to now , on a few occasions up to now . |
| 5 | After a disastrous period of neglect when Glaswegians preferred Costa del Sol to this island of Bute abounding ‘ in pleasing scenes ’ , the ‘ stately hotels ’ and ‘ comfortable villas ’ , though older and a bit worn , are sprucing themselves up as the visitors , still almost exclusively Glaswegian , are coming back . |
| 6 | So , he had been winding her up about their sharing the same bed , amusing himself at her expense ! |
| 7 | The knack in dowsing is to be in the right frame of mind , not caring too much what answer you get , but at the same time having a clear idea of what you are looking for , otherwise you are opening yourself up to a very wide ‘ waveband ’ and things will get very confused . |
| 8 | ‘ We are gearing ourselves up for promotion on and off the field . |
| 9 | They have put forward their nine-year coach Laurie Mains , and are winding themselves up to the point of wanting him as coach , first-up . |
| 10 | Has n't Mrs Abberley been keeping you up to date ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Have you been hatching something up with her — to stow me away ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I am living it up with Survage at the Coq d'Or . |
| 14 | While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’ |
| 15 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 16 | They had , it transpired , been training one up for some time . |
| 17 | No UK broadcast date has been fixed , but Sky are picking it up for autumn. , In the meantime , Bart is appearing in bootlegged form on American dance flyers and T-shirts everywhere . |
| 18 | You 're sticking them back into a |
| 19 | But th i i i I was reading somewhere that they 're bringing it back in again . |
| 20 | My concern is that you may , in b fact find yourself in a situation where you 're cementing yourself in to residential and institutional care at the expense of domiciliary care , and we 'll explain that later to you , er , as we go in . |
| 21 | You 're spelling everything out for them , 'cos the poor dears are n't very bright , are they ? |
| 22 | ‘ Dear God , Rory , ’ he murmured , ‘ you 're driving me out of my mind ! ’ |
| 23 | In other words a good mirror signal manoeuvre routine , however you apply it but in a particular order , which gives a discipline , so that you 're keeping yourselves out of the problems that other people may give you if you allow them to . |
| 24 | They say they 're keeping me in for observation . |
| 25 | so that the client can see that you 're keeping it up to date . |
| 26 | They 're picking us off like flies they ca n't be that bloody useless can they ? |
| 27 | We 've put blood , sweat and tears into this campaign and now you 're dismissing it out of hand ! ’ |
| 28 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 29 | But you 're understanding it and you 're fitting it in with what you already know . |
| 30 | I still think that neighbourhood watches does what we 're doing is we 're pushing it out to Hertfordshire and the Metropolitan area and they 're trying to push it elsewhere , and then , you know , we 're just |