Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been helping Mark put together the Business Plan and the presentation . |
| 2 | The victim has been helping police retrace his journey … |
| 3 | PRUDHOE BAY — Satellites are helping scientists track objects flying over Alaska 's Arctic coast , but they are n't Russian aircraft or UFOs ; they 're sea ducks called Spectacled Eiders . |
| 4 | For more details of how we are helping companies meet the challenge of the 1990's , and for a free copy of the independent Henley Centre Report on Facilities Management , call us free on or return the coupon . |
| 5 | ‘ The large number of non-farming visitors to the show gives an opportunity to show how research scientists are helping farmers protect the environment and avoid pollution as well as producing food as efficiently and economically as possible , ’ said WBPS spokeswoman Pat Twigg . |
| 6 | DARLINGTON council has drawn up a list of businesses which are helping people stop smoking . |
| 7 | And by offering management skills training courses to heads and deputy heads of schools , we 're helping schools become more adept at self management . |
| 8 | It 's certainly true , I do n't think that we 're letting development rip . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's certainly true that if people suggest they will go to the appeal procedure then we will do almost everything we can to avoid that , which means in some cases we 're letting people get away with something that you would n't let others get away with , simply because they 're being difficult — well , not being difficult , they would be just exercising their rights . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I thought so , but what I ca n't understand is why you 're letting Dana get away with it . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're making Dad look a fool . |
| 12 | Ken added : ‘ Marty 's angle was not to be afraid of anti-feeling , because we 're making people laugh and in laughter we 're making a kind of sanity . |
| 13 | He says : ‘ It 's imperative we keep the confidence in our own ability to score goals , because then some of the bad luck we feel we 've been having will start to change . |
| 14 | Even though I can see both applications on the screen at the same time I am having problems copy typing the formulas . |
| 15 | But the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is angry that some other local authorities are letting agents get away with murder . |
| 16 | ‘ I am letting things run down , ’ I said . |
| 17 | personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front . |
| 18 | He feels that the church should be helping people overcome problems rather than making money through showing the church to tourists or buying paintings . |
| 19 | But the best tonic of all would be seeing Liverpool challenge for the title . |
| 20 | Edna wont be letting viewers peep behind HER lace curtains . |
| 21 | A disappointed Wilkinson explained : ‘ From a football aspect my point of view was that I would n't be letting Batty go . |
| 22 | If that does n't fit with the Committee 's findings — and we must be letting Washington have those eventually — will that really patch things up ? ’ |
| 23 | Tell the candidate what is happening at the next stage in the selection and/or the date when you will be letting people know your decision . |
| 24 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 25 | ‘ Cantona has been making things happen for us since he arrived here , ’ said Ferguson , who believes United will bounce back from their surprise reverse at Oldham . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's the kind of thing I 've been making people do all day . |
| 27 | ‘ Investors who are making money tend not to complain , no matter how fed up they are with their advisers , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Although your tenancy agreement may be with the agent many courts are making landlords pick up the debt . |
| 29 | Anne McIntosh , MEP for north east Essex , has been campaigning against UK rates of excise duty which , she says , are making people buy drink on the Continent rather than at British shops . |
| 30 | Oh , to protect market share , which means that you think if you stopped advertising less people would buy it , therefore your ads are making people buy it — thank you and good night . |