Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [pron] [am/are] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and we looked on it more as a party and a family gathering and showing everybody else that we were now committed and we 're going to spend the rest of our lives together . |
| 2 | Now the one we are going to talk about first of all is the too little sugar where your person has been stabilized and they 're taking insulin injections . |
| 3 | She 's concussed and they 're keeping her in overnight . |
| 4 | We are angry at the way Labour is being presented and we are going to go for them . ’ |
| 5 | Why ca n't you just say : " There 's a bloke I 've met and I 'm bringing him home for tea on Tuesday . " |
| 6 | God , we 've only just met and you 're coming on like some rampant nut-eater . |
| 7 | Erm we are still not going to enough we we need something like just over half a million to do all the schemes er which er and we could do next year and this Committee is going to have to decide there , which er town centres are actually going to be done and which are going to be erm left out . |
| 8 | Cos I 've got to go out in ten minutes , I 'm going to get my hair done and you 're going to look after Jim are n't you ? |
| 9 | ‘ Juries are sympathetic towards people who have been provoked and who are defending their property and go over the top , ’ he says . |
| 10 | This job is now completed and we are hoping to hold a short ‘ opening ’ ceremony as soon as it can be arranged . |
| 11 | a young man has died and we are trying to establish why at the moment |
| 12 | a young man has died and we are trying to establish why at the moment |
| 13 | a young man has died and we are trying to establish why at the moment |
| 14 | a young man has died and we are trying to establish why at the moment |
| 15 | ‘ There is also the potential for fully automated techniques being used and we are aiming to develop a diverless laser welding system . ’ |
| 16 | The manufacturers have been alerted and they 're working on the problem . ’ |
| 17 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 18 | ‘ This leaves nearly $7.8 million to be recovered and we are taking vigorous action to trace this money , ’ said Capt Smith . |
| 19 | I , I maybe fall asleep for maybe an hour or two and then I 'm woken and I 'm coughing all the time . |
| 20 | Even though my children 's reading has long since moved on to Roald Dahl , C S Lewis and Judy Blume , the story ‘ template ’ is there , the dubious role models of their best-loved tales are firmly entrenched and I 'm beginning to wonder if they are there for life . |
| 21 | But Newbon goes on to explain : ‘ He 's now gone and I 'm talking to the present managing director . |
| 22 | Now it rains underneath and oh er the switch is gone and I 'm waiting cos they 're a shop , I think they 've never been down , while they 're waiting for the rep to come . |
| 23 | This , says Daniel Rahier , assistant director of the European Senior Advisory Group in Biotechnology ( SAGB ) , ‘ means that Europe is becoming more production centred and we are losing our R & D capabilities ’ . |
| 24 | A spokesman said : ‘ They will all be individually counselled and we are setting up a job shop within the store and a hot-line in conjunction with the Department of Employment . |
| 25 | He 's engaged and they 're saving up to get married , but Helen and him thought it 'd be better to buy one now because they 'll have a lot of expenses after they 're married and wo n't have Helen 's wages . ’ |
| 26 | I am thinking of domestics , porters and maintenance staff , who are grossly underpaid and who are suffering badly as a result of administration of hospital trusts and the attempts to break away from the national negotiating machinery . |
| 27 | Your life has just begun and you 're walking across what turns out to be Salisbury Plain . |
| 28 | I 'm not saying it 's one that the tribunal should have accepted , but , but , but what I 'm saying is th there is an element of psychological truth in that , because if Freud 's theories if er bond Freud theory group behaviour is correct , then that does seem to happen some extent that the leader as it were takes and presumably this is why some people erm presumably er feel better in groups , perhaps that they get something out of a group that their own ego can not provide , but other people are uncomfortable in groups because they feel that their ego is being alienated and they 're losing some of their some of their power . |