Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] this [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 2 | I AM WRITING this with the sun beating down on me in Caracas . |
| 3 | By the way , I am writing this with the Edding 1800 pen I recently won in one of your competitions . |
| 4 | I AM WRITING this with the sun beating down on me in Caracas . |
| 5 | I am writing this on the train to London , carrying me on smooth , oiled wheels away from the pain , the exhaustion , and , above all , the one worth-while thing I ever did — or tried to do — in my life . |
| 6 | I am writing this in the mid-summer of 1986 , feeling strong and well and scheduled to make a return visit to my surgeon in just ten days time . |
| 7 | I am addressing this to the Chief Executive as I am uncertain which department deals with matters of building safety . |
| 8 | ‘ I wonder if we 're handling this in the right way , ’ he said cautiously . |
| 9 | ‘ I see your point about Philippe , but I do n't see why you 're keeping this from the police , ’ said Jack . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I am doing this in the interest of the great majority of our people , ’ she said . |
| 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 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |
| 14 | We are running this in the off season , which means that only the Park Department is running motorized rigs and that there are only 25 launches a day . |
| 15 | The group 's belief in its own morality : ‘ We are doing this for the benefit of everyone . ’ |
| 16 | We are doing this for the right reasons . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ They are doing this by the usual process of blaming the Unionists for it all and insinuating that if only the Unionists would talk to the SDLP and through them to Dublin , then everything would calm down and peace and good would reign supreme . ’ |
| 18 | Streaming is appearing again and the government seem to be encouraging this with the creation of City Technology Colleges . |
| 19 | I 'll be keeping this for the next few days with me looking after it . |
| 20 | I 'm writing this on the morning of your ride at Ascot on Pendero . |
| 21 | I 'm writing this at the start of the war in the Gulf . |
| 22 | I 'm writing this at the home of a friend in Michigan . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll be reporting this to the Coroner 's office , ’ he said , as soon as Oates had introduced Patrick . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 25 | I could be doing this with the mouse but . |
| 26 | With whom will we be doing this in the year 2004 ? |
| 27 | Now please do n't think that I 'm saying this for the benefit of somebody else . |
| 28 | If he 'd have turned round and said , Look I 'm putting this in the kitchen I 'm gon na be listening to what you 're saying then she would n't minded . |
| 29 | The predictable result would have been an intensification of agriculture and we may be witnessing this in the drift of settlements ending on more fertile and productive soils and the changes in cereal crops being cultivated . |
| 30 | Already gaining popularity in the clubs , if the distributors can operate quickly we 'll all be whistling this over the breakfast table very soon . |