Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [art] [noun pl] [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 | ‘ Our people are helping the Myrcans guard the hall doors , ’ the Steward said . |
| 3 | But you 're letting the others do all the work . " |
| 4 | ‘ This afternoon — I presume you 'll be helping the men finish this morning 's work ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But my main priority is making the animals look real with a lot of life in them , rather than the staid and stiff specimens cast in bronze , sitting on top of a television or placed in a town square . |
| 9 | Miss Sowerby — by now an enthusiastic convert — and I had taken turns at massaging the damaged calf muscles , and suddenly I said to him , ‘ Jimbo , just imagine it 's you that 's making the muscles move . ’ |
| 10 | The landowner was letting the buildings return to dust , but no doubt he would be grateful to have them re-stored at no cost to himself . |
| 11 | As I was watching the sparks bounce off the curved perspex , I suddenly remembered part of a nightmare I 'd never remembered before . |
| 12 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 13 | Patrick too was watching the shops go by , remembering the last time he had walked down them , it had been early in 1916 , and he had gone out with Mickey — God Rest Him — to buy his mother an Easter gift . |