Example sentences of "they are [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are teaming up with British and American publishers for simultaneous English and German editions of the same book , or themselves issuing an increasing number of bilingual ( usually German/English ) books . |
| 2 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 3 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 4 | They are going along at vast speeds , and I say vast speeds , they 're twenty miles an hour over the grass and you can imagine how much they 're cutting . |
| 5 | They are running out of rude things to say about each other , or new things to say about the NHS . |
| 6 | They are great improvisers too — you should see the things they are making out of old war scrap — ploughs , nails , tools and utensils of all kinds . |
| 7 | I believe they are standing up to this tour well . |