Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 2 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 3 | Lurking in unfamiliar corners of your class-divided towns , men like me are gon na smash your fortunate houses down . |
| 4 | Mummy me are gon na go in there |
| 5 | Oh mum me do it , me are gon na do that and that in a minute |
| 6 | Dad erm her and are gon na go there and you and me are gon na |
| 7 | The three of them are presiding over us like a tribunal . |
| 8 | Just four of the top names M & S , Sainsbury 's , Safeway and Tesco take half of its output and sales to them are rising by 10pc a year . |
| 9 | Paradoxically , the more moderate of them are insisting on the maintenance of their block votes because the party is still not fully democratic . |
| 10 | Quite rightly , they place much emphasis on the importance of introducing genuine market relations in Yugoslavia ; and increasing numbers of them are including in this the right to establish competing private enterprises and self-managed enterprises in which the workers own shares . |
| 11 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 12 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 13 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 14 | All three of them are looking for work in large towns . |
| 15 | One of the issues that arises concerning the inhabitants of squatter settlements is integration into city life , since many of them are migrants and all of them are living in an area which is peripheral , in terms of city services and location . |
| 16 | Assistant Chief Environmental Health Officer , John Copley , says people in Oxford have much less of a chance of receiving help than those in other cities , even though some of them are living in appalling conditions . |
| 17 | Many of them are acting as interpreters and trying to put a semblance of order into the chaos as the world 's press converges on ministries with fresh tenants and uncertain programmes . |
| 18 | Many of them are farming for little more than the subsidies . |
| 19 | Most of them are sticking to a policy , adopted during the Falklands war , of not stocking war games until the war is over . |
| 20 | Various surface and subsurface crusts are found in many deserts , but it is doubtful how far many of them are forming under present conditions . |
| 21 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
| 22 | The majority of businesses have less than ten employees and an increasing number of them are turning to IT as a low cost way to improve productivity and recordkeeping . |
| 23 | Both of them are fleeting in their nature . |
| 24 | That is exactly what most of them are showing in Belfast at present . |
| 25 | Many of them are engaging in their own complex negotiations and renegotiations around language and music , for example , borrowing elements from ‘ white ’ , Afro-Caribbean and Asian forms and creating new syncretic versions ( Jones , 1988 ; Hewitt , 1986 ; Gilroy , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | Four of them are bubbling around the kitchen and the other two are in the front room keeping an eye on the visitors , roped up on the floor watching two blacks the size of quarter-backs shaking through their jackets . |
| 27 | And what about overtime on Sa I mean at the moment some of them are working during the week and Saturdays and they need that to maintain the sort of service level that we 're doing at the moment . |
| 28 | Let me tell you about the Barking women most of them are dead , some of them are working for local authority . |
| 29 | In Ireland a party that puts up several candidates in a constituency will easily predict which of them are going to be elected , which may and which wo n't . |
| 30 | And g m quite a lot of them are going to be dependent on rented accommodation and in particular , well both council cou both , both council rented accommodation and private rented accommodation . |