Example sentences of "we [be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are leaving here in half-anhour so you must be quick with your food . ’ |
| 2 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support for the document that we are publishing today on hospital hostels . |
| 3 | At last , Alida thought , at last we are getting down to business , to the signing of papers , the question of money . |
| 4 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 5 | We can not promise to meet orders , so we are running out of work . |
| 6 | ‘ In the central area we are running out of stock . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Too often on the Today programme an interesting interview is cut short with the words ‘ I 'm afraid we are running out of time . |
| 8 | We are we are we are running out of time , John Taylor John Taylor I 'll come to you in a second , John Taylor shush , shush you 've had your shout , John Taylor |
| 9 | An article in All the World reported , " There is no money for this but we are going ahead in faith . " |
| 10 | ‘ We are going out to lunch , ’ Alain informed her , reading her expression with little difficulty . |
| 11 | We expect the Islamic nation to support us in our latest struggle which we are carrying out in order to preserve the interests of the whole Islamic world . |
| 12 | We are doing well with dog-fighting in spite of its illegality , and we are making progress with a few speculative lines such as cave diving , simulated extreme skiing and Russian roulette . |
| 13 | We are doing more for training than any previous Government and the Labour party is in no position to lecture us on that subject . |
| 14 | We need to challenge the ideology which claims the market knows best , despite claims that we are coming out of recession , we are still losing thousands of jobs because , as we know all too well , the market will always neglect our nation 's long-term interest for the short-term profits of speculators and asset strippers . |
| 15 | We are talking not about election expenses , but about theft from the House of Commons — — because there is no doubt that it is a theft of material — |
| 16 | But the use of range cattle , though the yield is lower and we are talking now about extensification , is sustainable , largely because it can be sustained with minimal input from fossil fuel . |
| 17 | And if we we 're looking around in town . |
| 18 | And the thing just snowballed and we 've managed to accumulate something like £6,000 and about 40 tons of gifts in the form of children 's clothing , children 's toys er medicaments of one sort or another , various creams recommended to us by pediatricians , er shampoos and other things like antibiotics and so on which we 're taking over on behalf of er a medical team from Banbury . |
| 19 | from the wilds of whitewater we 're off to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire for the start of our action round up … there we 're meeting up with greyhound trainer Tony Meek … and his two dogs … |
| 20 | about school er further education on , on the magazine and I felt that perhaps , bearing in mind what he 'd said earlier about I have n't had any contact with you for thirteen years , that might have been something that you could 've you know reinforced a bit well we 've now got financial advisers , the other thing or one of the other things we 're doing is , is this contact magazine which we 're sending out to policy holders and it , you know , it helps to bridge the gap as it were . |
| 21 | We 're popping in to estate agents . |
| 22 | Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now . |
| 23 | But we 're getting out of order . ’ |
| 24 | WE 'RE moving smoothly into gear with our great series of phone-in car contests . |
| 25 | Yeah , er if that 's the case then I , I think we will increase what we 're doing there in line with six five nine er four |
| 26 | Well we 're going up to unit again . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're going up to hospitality for a while . |
| 28 | But it does seem to be again if we 're going back to Government guidance who are justifying extra policies to be brought forward to this alteration , it is a serious omission this alteration that there is no policy which deals with rural affordable housing . |
| 29 | So we 're going back in time a bit today for the mystery movie quiz . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're going home at midnight tomorrow . ’ |