Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be [v-ing] [num] " in BNC.

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1 some support , you 're going in or you 're using one of the policy
2 A person is eligible for student membership if he or she is following one of these recognised courses :
3 Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object .
4 And I 'm taking four , so we 've both got aces I think .
5 It started with the grandwean , you know , when she 's and I 'm taking a bit , and then I seem to get addicted to it , and I 'm buying seven boxes .
6 ‘ My swing has not really had to alter , but I am probably hitting my drives 20 yards shorter and I 'm needing two or three irons longer than I needed before the accident . ’
7 Yes it 's nineteen sixty six and I 'm going nineteen sixty seven , Mrs died nineteen sixty-seven and all
8 three and I 'm having three , one , two
9 When the hon. Member for Newham , North-East and I were buying one or two shirts in Sri Lanka , we must have been conscious that we were supporting the industry of the developing world , and rightly so .
10 The red second hand was coming up to six-thirty , 14 January , and I was counting thirty-eight beats a minute , slower than ever , half the rate of two years ago .
11 So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as
12 Well I got thirty five shillings a week and I was doing six hou twelve hours a day from Monday till Friday and twelve and a half on a Saturday .
13 Andrew was on the dole and I was doing two part-time jobs .
14 And I was going ten minutes .
15 And y and I was paying eighteen pounds a week to be catered for .
16 You 're going up two squares at a time and you 're going one two three and it 's usually when you get to around where I tend to do it is erm sort of eight and ten .
17 you 've got one ninety pence here and you 're spending ninety pence of it on one thing and sixty pence of the same money on another thing .
18 So you had you had twelve pennies in one pile and twelve in another and you 're doing twelve add twelve now you could have done counted the whole lot could n't you ?
19 If you go rushing in and you 're in a thirty and you 're doing forty five they 'll all rush in with you .
20 One , the one section , one section of it , it 's all women clothes and lace ware and beautiful clothes and so on , you know it 's a market but you know and little places of pottery and so on and then the next section you go down this old market , there 's a old big square and you walk on there and you 're talking about , you go to buy avocados over here , you 're buying sixty and seventy pence for one , and you 're paying sixty pence for about bloody six over there
21 Well at that particular time on the bureau , the means test was prevalent then and you were getting twelve shillings a week .
22 And very , yeah , I mean th that 's , that 's all that this exploration of needs is , is just saying you retired yesterday and you were earning twelve thousand a year , you 're now gon na be earning two and a half thousand pounds a year .
23 And then you you used to have a blow lamp to heat it up and after that you you erm put it on half compression and you were turning one of the big flywheels round until it it started and you had to keep the blowlamp on it .
24 And my my aunt that I my grandmother that I stayed with , their neighbour down the stair was quite indignant and saying , I 'm away to work and she 's getting twelve shillings the same .
25 But recently a lot more interesting projects , such as the University of the Third Age ( address on page 148 ) had got off the ground , and she was enjoying two of the courses being run locally .
26 I could see her paws sticking out through the wire door and she was making one hell of a racket .
27 Martek is well known for its innovative drill accessories , and we are offering two of the most useful products in the company 's range this month , both designed to be easy to use , but very precise in operation .
28 And we 're getting three squares to the centimetre so we go up there two centimetres and we get the so if we go up every two squares
29 Scottish Nuclear 's ‘ Follow That Dog ’ sweatshirt are about to set a new trend in Scottish fashion — and we 're giving five away in our special Bulletin competition .
30 Give your hair a real treat with Silvikrin Intensive Conditioning Treatment — it 's one of the best deep conditioners around and we 're giving 200 away .
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