Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's got nothing to do with the fact that he got bent out of shape at an early age and has been shaping laughs out of the kinks ever since . |
| 2 | At the beginning of book in , when describing the revolt of Lesbos in 427 , Thucydides says that the Lesbians ‘ had been wanting to revolt even before the war , but the Spartans had been unwilling to receive them into alliance ’ . |
| 3 | And they are refusing to pay out on the late flood of bets until the official inquiry is complete . |
| 4 | ‘ I know you 're wanting to get back to the hacienda . ’ |
| 5 | I need to put the date in my diary cos they 're going to fill up during the summer so you |
| 6 | We 're going to go on to the effects of chilling and what damage does that do ? |
| 7 | We 're going to go down to the travel agents |
| 8 | ‘ Not if you 're going to back off like the last one did . ’ |
| 9 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 10 | Jem Marsh is deadly serious , not a flicker of a smile darting across his weathered expression : ‘ We 're going to move out of the component car industry . |
| 11 | Any failure of the controls , they 're going to drop out of the sky indeed we saw that on Saturday … |
| 12 | Any failure of the controls , they 're going to drop out of the sky . |
| 13 | I think we should have all what we 're going to have in for the bazaar thing , . |
| 14 | So presenting the centre line and okay we 're going to come on to the eye contact as well in a moment , presenting the centre line with eye contact means that it feels much more positive for the audience in terms of the delivery . |
| 15 | ‘ They 're going to come in at the far end . ’ |
| 16 | So but nevertheless we will look at a little bit at those peripheral things , but we 're going to concentrate mainly on the design and on the delivery of a presentation so that 's what we want to what we want to look at over the next two days . |
| 17 | Not just republican , we have loyalists as well and the loyalists have the potential for being the bigger and more effective of the two , and if we let the I R A to continue without interning them , you are going to have the situation deteriorating in the way which you do n't want and I do n't want , and you 're going to end up as the chief constable of the R U C said a few weeks ago with Dublin being bombed . |
| 18 | But they 're , they 're the gov they 're going to end up in the government . |
| 19 | Let the Stapletons know that you 're going to walk home across the moor . ’ |
| 20 | In this way , we 're starting to get away from the dangers associated with monopolistic suppliers and purchasers , because it 's less easy for large organisations to circumscribe their trading partners by making them use a particular EDI network . |
| 21 | You 're standing hunched up with the dull awareness of the hard graft . |
| 22 | Erm , so I 'll agree with Mr Grigson that we do suggest there are more households changing their own dwellings , but it 's simply because we 're trying to iron out of the problems that we feel have occurred within the major estimates . |
| 23 | They wo n't do away with them , no but cos they , they 're trying to do away with the National Dock Labour Board and come back to the old system . |
| 24 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 25 | By the way the lot of seemed to be played in Hertfordshire these days , and one of the great days is at Harpenden and that 's on September the first on Sunday , when they have their annual single-wicket competition , and that 's a great local event and it 's bound to encourage all the young cricketers in the neighbourhood , they 're trying to make up for the lack of cricket in schools , so well done Harpenden and that is on Sunday next , er , er , first of September and I 'll give you the time in a minute if I can find it , when it is , it does n't say , but it 's probably all day at the Harpenden club , well done Harpenden encouraging young people to play cricket , Sunday first September . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're trying to get away from the rowdy image . |
| 27 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
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| 29 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 30 | While schools are attempting to get away from the system , we are formalising it by offering five different levels of funding . |