Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [det] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCO 's development partner DEC will have to soldier on alone , if it has not been doing just that for some time ( UX No 364 ) , if it intends to put OSF/1-for-ACE on its MIPS R4000 machines . |
| 2 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 3 | She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night . |
| 4 | relationship , I mean do set up , I mean , if you get into , if you establish relations with me then it 's an ongoing thing , it can be , and it ought to be , so you actually do see the same people over a period of time , and you do establish a modicum of trust , not entire trust , because it 's asking too much for entire trust in all circumstances , but at least there is a certain understanding , particularly with the , on the , on the local basis . |
| 5 | Olson , then , is claiming too much for academic texts when he says ‘ an explicit writing system unambiguously represents meanings — the meaning is in the text ( 1977 , p. 264 ) . |