Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] be [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because we appear to be gorging ourselves on war coverage does n't mean to say that we swallow it whole . |
| 2 | A concern to prevent viewers switching off is normal but , on this particular occasion , broadcasters — particularly those at the BBC — appear to be overdoing it by promising a mixture of melodrama and cabaret ( ‘ a great national party ’ is another of Dimbleby 's images ) . |
| 3 | As one church planter has said : ‘ When Jesus comes back , I want to be doing something for God , even if it 's only making mistakes . ’ |
| 4 | " I do n't mind investigating poisonings on the farms but I object to being poisoned myself in my own home ! " |
| 5 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ she interrupted , ‘ but you seem to be accusing me of exactly the same things I accused you of — or at least had to ask about . |
| 7 | " Oh never mind , Lord Hulton , they seem to be getting them down the hill now and I 'm not in such a panic this morning , anyway . " |
| 8 | You seem to be financing yourself by borrowing against your leases — leveraging in an expanding property market while interest rates are low . ’ |
| 9 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 10 | This morning we seem to be having nothing but problems . ’ |
| 11 | I always seem to be landing you in it . ’ |
| 12 | I seem to be doing nothing but making lists of things that need fixing . ’ |
| 13 | May we try to do something to make other people 's lives happier and easier — even those people who seem to be doing nothing at all to help us . |
| 14 | Which shows that perhaps a misindica In this situation perhaps the men are seeking agreement rather than the women are , because the women seem to be doing it to actually show concern , rather than to seek agreement , which does n't Turns a lot of the traditional thing about tag questions on it head . |
| 15 | Now one of the things th we find that when we play an Adam Faith record , we tend to be singing it for the rest of the day you know , like What Do You Want |
| 16 | If half the records on a track have to be moved one at a time , and a device revolution is required for each movement , additions can take a great deal of time . |
| 17 | And the ideas need to be caught they need to be done something with by the rest of the group . |