Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [art] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 2 | But there is a mysterious group of British engineers , who are not allowed to let us know what they 're doing — I suppose they are helping the Chinese build a factory or something — anyway , it has been refreshing to hear a homely Lancs. accent at the next table . |
| 3 | ‘ Our people are helping the Myrcans guard the hall doors , ’ the Steward said . |
| 4 | THE fans who revelled in Darlington 's magnificent rise from near-obscurity are helping the side slip back into the bad old days . |
| 5 | 1 comb ( for moment when you look into a magnificent eighteenth-century 18′ x 18′ mirror and suddenly realise you 're letting the whole place down with your unkempt hair ) |
| 6 | But you 're letting the others do all the work . " |
| 7 | We 're letting the kettle go off the boil . |
| 8 | More and more of us are letting the conservatory fill up with pots , urns and tubs in winter , keeping the plants safe from the cold until May , when they can be rolled out on to the terrace , wheeled on to the patio or carried to the paved squares on the lawn where they will put on a show all summer long . |
| 9 | ‘ This afternoon — I presume you 'll be helping the men finish this morning 's work ? ’ |
| 10 | As well as helping to save the rainforests , you 'll also be helping the environment close to home . |
| 11 | The group will be making a marketing push at the Boston Seafood Show next week . |
| 12 | the committee : ‘ We will be watching the Dutch experiment closely . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll be watching the seasons change out of my dressing-room window : I 'm doing it to test my patience , ’ says Gordon , disappointed only that her love of travel must be momentarily put on hold . |
| 14 | DOCTOR , I 'M FEELING A BIT FAINT . |
| 15 | Good we 're doing family things today we had erm we had why these hard times are making the families pull closer together on earlier on and we 're all er looking after each other a lot more so I want a thirty seconds worth of family things today for Loot at Lunchtime . |
| 16 | He believes — as any political leader must believe , to keep himself going through the grinding work of electioneering — that victory is out there , but that the voters are making the Tories work hard for it . |
| 17 | To help matters along , boarders had been resorted to once more : a warehouseman from Hammersmith and a wheelwright from Norfolk were helping the Titfords pay the bills . |
| 18 | We were watching a tree pipit in display flight when a sudden downpour took us by surprise and sent us scurrying , as fast as the bossy ground would allow , to the nearest hide . |
| 19 | In order to understand what you would see if you were watching a star collapse to form a black hole , one has to remember that in the theory of relativity there is no absolute time . |
| 20 | WE WERE watching the sun go down beyond Kaena Point when Michael asked me how my book on the North Shore was coming along . |
| 21 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 22 | By the second day , more viewers were watching North than were watching the daytime soap operas , As the World Turns and General Hospital . |
| 23 | About 1,700 people were watching the weekend display at an 11th-century castle at Pevensey , Sussex . |
| 24 | I said , ‘ We were watching the chap steal the ten bob note . ’ |
| 25 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 26 | For my father had opened his curtains and was sitting , shaved and in full uniform , on the edge of his bed from where evidently he had been watching the sky turn to dawn . |
| 27 | Maclaren has been watching the story unfold . |
| 28 | Meanwhile Crowe , who had been watching the carnage unfold from the other end with increasing horror , unfurled some strokes of class in an attempt to ease the situation . |
| 29 | Co-housing groups in other parts of America are watching the Winslow project closely . |
| 30 | and he was n't gon na go football tomorrow but he 's got ta go cos if he do n't go he 's letting the team go because things he was saying to my mother last week , well you would n't believe it . |