Example sentences of "we are [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 . |