Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 2 | But to my mind the boy could begin by showing more respect altogether to people like your father who have been listening to what the League says about the problems of the land and the bosses and the conditions of the men and women who work on it . |
| 3 | I 've been looking at them every day and hoping I 'd get one and he knew that 's what I was hoping . |
| 4 | I am listening to what the Lord God is saying ; he promises peace to us , his own people , if we do not go back to our foolish ways . |
| 5 | Response : I am listening to what the Lord God is saying ; he promises peace to us , his own people , if we do not go back to our foolish ways . |
| 6 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 7 | Erm now to give you and there would be other details by the way er other er information concerning that assignment like how many cards we 're printing like what the target is . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're relying on him a lot . ’ |
| 9 | Thinking about our coastline , seeing that we 're talking about it a bit , what about our white cliffs all along the coast ? |
| 10 | They 're concentrating on it a bit now , are n't they . |
| 11 | I understand that Wyre Borough are forwarding to you a copy of a recent letter to their Environmental Health Officer from Nether Wyresdale Parish Council and I write to reiterate the concern felt by the Parish Council about this site especially the environmental and health hazards involved . |
| 12 | We are going about it the proper way and er nevertheless it will be assessed and costed at the end . |
| 13 | ‘ This really shook me this morning although I am getting over it a bit now , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 14 | In this case one could argue that I and Thou automatically imply We , since the two of us are sharing between ourselves the field of discourse . |
| 15 | During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , she seemed to be coping with it the best of all of them . |
| 17 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
| 18 | So on one page , you 'll be reading about what Africans do in Upper Volta , and on the next page , you 'll be reading about what the ancient Aztecs did that is similar . |
| 19 | When the Dragons first eleven set off for the sun in a couple of weeks time they 'll be taking with them a pretty impressive record , just 2 defeats in the last seven seasons . |
| 20 | This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say . |
| 21 | ‘ We are afraid you are taking upon yourself the creation of a tool that has an even greater potential for evil than for good . |
| 22 | 1 You are preparing for us the scripts for the following items : |
| 23 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 24 | Her expression was one of utter distaste , as though she were looking at something a dog had done in the middle of the floor . |
| 25 | It attracted hundreds of people who were looking for something a little bit different to eat this Christmas . |
| 26 | It was as if the Sechem were listening to something no one else in the room could hear . |
| 27 | He shouted , so the doctor told Dexter , as if he were crying to someone a great distance away . |
| 28 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 29 | He had white hair and looked very nice , and soon they were waving to him every morning . |
| 30 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |