Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [v-ing] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Edinburgh Green Belt Trust has been discussing this matter with its funding partners and it will be important for David Oldham to discuss the various views with the Urban Forestry Advisory Group . |
| 2 | Mary Anne who has been managing this side of things for us is leaving Birmingham and we are looking for a new manager ( see job description on page 6 ) . |
| 3 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 4 | jack ’ , we discover , ‘ has been reading this epistle with a commentary but could get no help from it . ’ |
| 5 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 6 | A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing . |
| 7 | John has been dreading this moment . |
| 8 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 9 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |
| 10 | Geoff Boucher has been running this unofficial sanctuary for more than four years . |
| 11 | He has been studying this rare British plant since WWF funded his first project three years ago . |
| 12 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 13 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 14 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 15 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
| 16 | The Secretary of State has been awaiting this advice for sometime . |
| 17 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 18 | Roll-A-Joint has been disappointing this season and if he runs will be meeting Cool Ground on a stone worse terms , while Little Polveir is a stone better off with Cool Ground , who , at 10-1 , is the other each-way bet . |
| 19 | ‘ I think I 'll have to have a few words with whoever has been saying this . |
| 20 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 21 | Everyone has been asking this questions since it was announced that Holiday '91 Presenter Anne Gregg will be leaving the programme later this month at her BBC bosses ' request . |
| 22 | he erm , he 's given Stuart our phone number and Stuart 's been shouting this , this is Geoff 's phone number I mean he 's , he 's been telling every body our phone number , I says yeah you just let somebody ring us up and I 'll bloody well be round their house like a shot if they phone , they |
| 23 | Yeah , well I mean I do n't know what she 's been earning this Liz , but |
| 24 | ‘ It 's Dieter 's section that 's been handling this , so I 'll let him fill in the background . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 26 | It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years . |
| 27 | When he used to write music he used to have different tunings for almost every song , but he 's been doing this now for the last five to seven years — the E string tuned down to D. If I have to play guitar on a song where he 's played guitar , I just learn it my way , using traditional tuning . ’ |
| 28 | Tod 's been doing this quite a bit lately — grunting : Shtib . |
| 29 | ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’ |
| 30 | he 's been paying this bloke thirty quid , then he said twenty quid , today he said sixteen quid |