Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service , which is expected to launch later this year . |
| 2 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 3 | ‘ Look , ’ sniffed Mel , ‘ these guys are only trying to make a bob or two … and from what I gather they usually rake in a fair bit . ’ |
| 4 | I am desperately seeking to obtain a Router Crafter lathe . |
| 5 | The 6.00 news , this is Annie Webster , Police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself , Paul Chandler reports : |
| 6 | Police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself . |
| 7 | And police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself . |
| 8 | ‘ It is an absolute red herring and they are just trying to make a mountain out of a molehill ’ — NEIL GRAY ( All Black manager in Australia ) after his team had been accused of excessively tough tactics in beating New South Wales ( 41–9 ) . |
| 9 | Try to learn to tell the difference between people who are just wanting to have a row and people who REALLY want to know more about Jesus . |
| 10 | As we go into the south we are just going to conduct a rent reduction , interest reduction campaign and we , we will then aim to consolidate that position and at some stage we will then move forward into land reform again , but to do that we will probably need a new land law because we 're recognizing the old agrarian land law is , is inappropriate , absolute egalitarianism is now dead in a sense of as erm it 's sort of saying that , that as Mao is arguing in May forty eight , May forty eight that absolute egalitarianism is wrong . |
| 11 | You 're maki making a an assumption that they 're obviously going to use a scale of |
| 12 | If they ask me Sir , they 're just trying to make a monkey out of you . |
| 13 | We 're not picking on you we 're just trying to get a conversation going here like , but it 's very hard when you just sit there and say nothing . |
| 14 | So you 're just going to compile a menu and you 're gon na hope that Joe public likes what you 've put on ? |
| 15 | We 're just going to have a fuck in the flowerbed . ’ |
| 16 | They 're still trying to establish a motive for the stabbing of Richard Miles , who was found dead in his garden . |
| 17 | Cos we 're still continuing designing a Caernarvon link . |
| 18 | ‘ At this rate , ’ grins Bill , ‘ we 're still going to have a theocracy here a hundred years from now . ’ |
| 19 | They 're also trying to contact a series of YTS workers . |
| 20 | They 're also trying to contact a series of YTS workers . |
| 21 | Right we 're also going to give a mark for spelling and presentation . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're probably going to need a tetanus injection , ’ Rory told him . |
| 23 | ‘ Dammit , you 're probably going to get a chill . |
| 24 | We 're now hoping to get a resolution to that problem . |
| 25 | Right , what er we 're going to do er , today is start er , supply , because we 've dispensed with our , of demand we 're now going to have a look at the nature of agricultural supply . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're really going to have a ball together on this one . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been a team for ever , and they 'll say things like , ‘ If we 're no going to learn a lot more about this character , why do we have so much about him in the beginning ? ’ |
| 28 | If you 're seriously trying to arrange a trip I 'd be interested in popping up ( a good excuse to visit my parents in sunny Harrogate ) . |
| 29 | Because , what you 're going back to , just reemphasizing the point earlier , you 're speaking one-to-one , you 're not trying to convince a , a group of , of , of councillors , you 're trying to actually convey a message and , yes , you 're trying to convince , but you 're actually trying to convey a message doing one-to-one interview , across to people who know nothing about it , whereas councillors purport to know something about it . |
| 30 | that at the same time you 're actually trying to assume a policy of equality ? |