Example sentences of "[v-ing] here is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summer 1984 a Commission scientist wrote in Coal and Energy Quarterly , a journal funded by and used as a mouthpiece for the National Coal Board , that ‘ there is no damage [ in British conifers ] that can be defined as new ’ and ‘ the chances of similar damage [ to that in West Germany ] occurring here is considered low . ’ |
| 2 | The only justification for staying here is to live for the most fundamental programme of change . |
| 3 | My astonishment in coming here is to see these later pictures of his , although I always associate Basil with being a very competent , sensitive , and a typical Euston Road type of painter , I do think his association with the North seems to have done something incredible , and these later water colours , with their tremendous feeling for " wind and Yorkshire weather " seem to have given him an absolutely different and much more mature outlook . |
| 4 | Erm all he 's been doing here is getting me to find the sides . |
| 5 | What you are doing here is trying to blame other circumstances for your own delay . |
| 6 | I mean there 's a lot more we can do that is fairly profitable the and the whole object of what we 're doing here is to get people occupied you know |
| 7 | What I 'm saying here is do n't let it . |
| 8 | The point I am making here is based on an observation by Stanley Cavell ( 1979 , p. 460 ) and repeated by him in many contexts : ‘ a human being could not fail to know , confronting me , that I am a human being ’ . |
| 9 | One way of intervening here is to question or subvert the authority of those institutions themselves ; and the most obvious target is the dictionary . |
| 10 | The model of pragmatic mediation that I am proposing here is designed to meet that need . |