Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agreement on the actions needed is beginning to emerge from these recent meetings of politicians , administrators and scientists . |
| 2 | And the extra that they should have had is going to pay for these uniforms . |
| 3 | Parliament may have been intending to legislate in such all-embracing terms . |
| 4 | The choice between going for a company limited by shares or one limited by guarantee is thus largely dependent on whether the surveyors involved are having to put up most of the funds themselves . |
| 5 | Whatever secret he had been hoping to confide on that short walk to the House would remain for ever unspoken . |
| 6 | Helen had been trying to learn for some time , but she found it very hard although Tony was endlessly patient with her . |
| 7 | The area had been going to seed for many years after the ship chandlers who once thrived there went one by one out of business . |
| 8 | The stormclouds that had been threatening to unload for most of the week finally opened their hatches on Saturday afternoon . |
| 9 | So you see what I 've been , what I 've been trying to do in this lecture is to explain the , the modern biological basis which I think makes Freud 's findings intelligent . |
| 10 | They 've been trying to see about that lot where the boys ' grammar school is int they ? |
| 11 | Because I 've been trying to swop between that one and that one . |
| 12 | ‘ Even so , I 've been trying to get to this level for seven or eight years , even though I knew that people liked what I did . |
| 13 | Do n't ask me Matt , I 've been sitting talking for many long days |
| 14 | We have been trying to focus in this study on those people within the enterprise who are in a position to effect strategic change ( or to maintain the status quo in the face of destabilising influences ) . |
| 15 | By way of example , Figure 7 shows a system that I have been helping to develop for some ten years now ( Smith and Rothman , 1980 ) . |
| 16 | money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money ! |