Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] in this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lurching along in this enclosed space , one loses all sense of direction . |
| 2 | That 's the thing that needs bucking up in this school … |
| 3 | Clearly there is something very important going on in this move , and at one level it is indeed a necessary corrective to the textual isolationism of much modernist criticism . |
| 4 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 5 | A TV commentator told viewers during the final morning 's play : ‘ We have seen plenty of seam lifting going on in this match . ’ |
| 6 | Work was going on in this specific area at Harwell , where it was classified secret , and now a leading Soviet was offering to come and tell all ! |
| 7 | People are frightened Ron there is a fear thing going on in this place . |
| 8 | I suddenly realized recently that I 'm so far short of having any kind of representational experience that I just do n't know what 's going on in this country . |
| 9 | It was too soon for the operation to be taken away from Cardiff before he found out just what was going on in this hellish office block . |
| 10 | What else is going on in this person 's life at the moment that might make your intervention ‘ the last straw ’ ; for example , family illness , death , anniversaries of death , separation or divorce , loss of job , being accused of abuse of some sort ? |
| 11 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 12 | Did her mother guess there was a battle going on in this house ; in fact , various battles ? |
| 13 | There does seem to be a lot going on in this neighbourhood . |
| 14 | Erm and I do think that the press should be notified of what 's going on in this for this year . |
| 15 | that we need some extra cooking going on in this house . |
| 16 | It 's us and people out there , there is still people out there sighing and crying and groaning under the detestable things that are going on in this world , I 've no doubt you 've met many , but , when they say I do n't know what the world 's coming to , well if you know what 's in your magazines and then your literature and the reasoning book , all these lovely provisions , because you 've devoured it , you 've eaten it like that scroll that John was given , it was sweet to him was n't it ? |
| 17 | and there 's , and there 's enough fighting going on in this bloody house |
| 18 | You know , but they should be criticised out of hand what 's going on in this country but they bloody do n't ! |
| 19 | Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area . |
| 20 | What , what 's going on in this area ? |
| 21 | Yes , well I do n't particularly limit the area of what I 'm interested , but if someone who was particularly interested in seeing how history was going over in this school , then I 'd be very happy in discussing with them how they might try and find out how successful history teaching was in that school for example . |
| 22 | ( I was amazed to see children in a playground in a Sydney suburb lining up in this fashion in the late Seventies . ) |
| 23 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 24 | My old man had this thing about all of us [ a family of ten ] growing up in this society and not getting into a black thing . |
| 25 | It 's really ridiculous — ridiculous — of you to think of going out in this wet , grey , slippery , miserable weather ! " |
| 26 | ‘ You could catch your death , going out in this . ’ |
| 27 | and erm , James said you not going out in this surely , yeah , yeah , it 's only a bit of rain and he come home and he was drenched right the way through top to bottom |
| 28 | I says I dare n't fancy going out in this I went upstairs and er , it 's always the same in n it ? |
| 29 | Rangers jumping from a helicopter and spreading out in this same way , a little over-confident as many American soldiers tended to be , hyped up by TV and movie images to believe in their innate superiority . |
| 30 | It is worth pointing out in this connection that the two propositions above are dubious . |