Example sentences of "[verb] they [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtain which divided them was wearing thin . |
| 2 | But I mean they were banging they were banging fifteen hundred in for that disco for the first |
| 3 | Lead-free petrol is bad for your car 's health , according to motor mechanics who say they 're repairing dozens of cars which have been damaged by it . |
| 4 | The Home Office say they 're planning further legal action over Murder in Mind . |
| 5 | They 're furious that a promised reduction in hours has n't happened , although health chiefs say they 're doing all they can . |
| 6 | The police say they 're doing all they can to catch the culprits . |
| 7 | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania-based , Transarc Corp , American Management Systems Inc and Knowledge Systems Corp say they are co-developing object-oriented interfaces for Transarc 's transaction processing monitor , Encina . |
| 8 | Somerset police investigating the death say they are questioning two men . |
| 9 | A lot of those promoting the policies really believed in them , believed they were doing positive work . |
| 10 | And they looked like that and I says , what , I says , they 've caused these men to earn all this money I says they 're earning more money than and that 's all you 're gon na offer me ? |
| 11 | Jim Lumb , who looks like John Cleese , says they 're having 18 ; William Hague says it 's 20 . |
| 12 | Press attache at the Madrid Embassy , Roy Osborne , says they 're doing all they can to help the stranded Britons , but he says conditions at the border are getting worse . |
| 13 | Mr Dobbs said : ‘ As far as I am aware the BBC want to do the sequel , and even as I speak they are discussing potential script writers . ’ |
| 14 | Despite the higher standard of living they were offering most of their inhabitants , they were economically a little too isolated to attract much attention . |
| 15 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 16 | Based on we can do they were doing sixty five palette loads a day . |
| 17 | cos the publicity is not just for visually impaired people or even for sponsors , it 's for theatres too when they 're seeing this and saying ooh , I noticed they 're doing that , this , this and this |
| 18 | At a meeting of the Western European Union several countries confirm they are sending military forces to the Gulf . |
| 19 | Cleveland Police confirm they are treating both incidents as arson . |
| 20 | They 're going they 're going some too I tell you you 'd got to keep your head down . |
| 21 | Was it Summerchild they were feeling protective about , though ? |
| 22 | Erm , that is kids may express curiosity , kids may even be doing things that imply they 're getting some sort of pleasure out of their bodies y'know they may be , as we used to call it when I was a child , playing with themselves , um they may be erm doing various things that er that give them some sort of bodily pleasure . |
| 23 | you know they 're getting worse and worse and worse . |
| 24 | If you go down Road there , I know they 're getting confused , if you go just straight up below the arch onto the main road to Belfast and Antrim , turn right up the top of the road a bit , and it 's your first er it 's building on the |
| 25 | It was n't boring but it was , just , I mean you know they 're sitting five hundred people all at one go and it 's |
| 26 | I know they 're asking more than we want to pay , but if we can assemble a package of cash , stock options , and newly issued shares as a good inducement , I think we 'll convince the key manager and he 'll persuade the others to sell . |
| 27 | They know they 're doing wrong you know . |
| 28 | It certainly would n't be against the ideological er ideas of the Party but I mean that it was an ideological , it was more practical cos it was , it was related the purification campaign of the Party , cos we know they 're having these campaigns |
| 29 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 30 | I heard they were getting great preview reaction . ’ |