Example sentences of "[prep] be [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What we are aiming for are manning levels to cater for the re-opening of the station . |
| 2 | And then the job was on the following days was after be shooting rabbits to feed them do you see . |
| 3 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
| 4 | We do n't think we do n't think that the citizens of are doing cartwheels at sixty four thousand pound being spent on a benefit bus to tour round this district and certainly if the festival organisers two years ago could commit themselves to breaking even within two years and were happy with that , why have we spent two hundred and forty thousand pound on a festival in when that money , and that 's four hundred thousand pounds worth of money , could have been spent on the salaries and training of our officers who work in children 's homes . |
| 5 | cos they ca n't get their leg over with any woman at all so all their life consists of is doing role playing . |
| 6 | who it 's actually They 're actually dealing with are waiting months and months and months and er |
| 7 | What I have trouble with is painting people 's houses — the English are vain about their houses . |
| 8 | In the 1950s , when the late Heinz Under was presenting Torontonians for the first time with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in the York Concert Society series in Massey Hall , I will never forget the ecstatic moment , after a dozen tumultuous curtain calls at the end of the Resurrection Symphony , when the elderly maestro lifted the heavy score off the stand — and shook it as vigorously and as high as he was able , in homage to the great composer . |
| 9 | You have got ta be joking man . |
| 10 | The gist of the words were , you 're under arrest for harbouring an escapee and he replied along the lines of you 've got ta be joking mate . |
| 11 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 12 | The shoes they invariable look to are racing flats . |
| 13 | I believe in a competitive world , but at the same time I think we have got to be laying sound foundations for future growth and if we are constantly pressured into satisfying stock-market expectations , which are short-term , or under threat of take-over , we will not be investing enough for the long-term development of our businesses . |
| 14 | A greater proportion of Welsh boys than girls seemed to be trying drugs , although figures from the Wirral suggested that girls were more at risk there . |
| 15 | For a time , however , this policy seemed to be achieving expansion without the problems predicted by their critics . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm supposed to be meeting Gordon Mahoney here at eleven , ’ Donna said . |
| 17 | Scotland ‘ A ’ are also supposed to be meeting Italy on Saturday , 19th December 1992 , in Aberdeen , but one wonders how the Italians will be expected to approach this fixture . |
| 18 | I 'm supposed to be meeting Gill at |
| 19 | Alyn and Deeside MP Barry Jones is also believed to be meeting Raytheon 's president Max Bleck . |
| 20 | The US government received such a request on Aug. 12 , as did the UK on Aug. 13 , and both gave orders on Aug. 13 that their naval personnel should board vessels believed to be breaking sanctions and do " whatever is necessary " . |
| 21 | So , because in this Festival we will be reaching people we normally do not reach as a group , for instance we 're having two pop concerts , the Rory Bremner thing , we 're going to be reaching people we do n't normally see on our D I Y. |
| 22 | Russia had already put under its jurisdiction border troops in Tajikistan , and Tajik rebel forces were known to be receiving weaponry via this route . |
| 23 | Compared with diabetic patients in urban areas , those in rural areas were less likely to attend a hospital based diabetic clinic ( 46% ( 442 ) v 86% ( 1054 ) , p<0.001 ) ; less likely to be receiving insulin ( 260 ( 27% ) v 416 ( 34% ) , p<0.001 and also after correction for differences in age distribution ) ; more likely to have advanced ( maculopathy or proliferative retinopathy ) diabetic retinopathy ( 13% ( 122 ) v 7% ( 89 ) , p<0.001 ) ; and more likely to require urgent laser photocoagulation for previously unrecognised retinopathy ( 1.4% ( 13 ) v 0.5% ( 6 ) , p<0.02 ) . |
| 24 | Cos I was going to be ordering carrier bags anyway . |
| 25 | Other car makers are understood to be evaluating coil coatings which are commonly used in the automotive industry in Japan . |
| 26 | You ought to be writing detective stories ! ’ |
| 27 | It could be said to be retrogressive — a return ( retreat ? ) to narrow Victorian child-rearing values — to be writing guidelines on how to encourage obedience and overcome disobedience in the late 1980s . |
| 28 | It made no complaint against the National Futures Association ( NFA ) , the self-regulatory body which was supposed to be watching Stotler Funds , the firm 's mutual-fund arm . |
| 29 | Ferguson , who failed to land 16-goal Alan Shearer and bought Dion Dublin — only for him to break a leg — is also thought to be watching Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson . |
| 30 | Gray , who was understood to be watching Newcastle United Reserves home game against Sheffield United last night , was unavailable for comment earlier yesterday . |