Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
2 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
3 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
4 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
5 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
6 | If his excuse is that he will not be saying anything new , I hope that the newspapers will note that he will just be churning out the same old stuff yet again . |
7 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |
8 | DURING THE UUAC GENERAL STRIKE THESE AIRCRAFT WERE TOUCHING DOWN EVERY FEW MINUTES AT ALDERGROVE AIRPORT IN THE LARGEST AIR AND SEA MOVEMENT OF TROOPS UNDERTAKEN BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT SINCE THE SUEZ OPERATION TWENTY-ONE YEARS EARLIER . |
9 | and his trusty assistant , Detective Sergeant William Bird , were speeding up the same road . |
10 | It were flowing down the both ways down . |
11 | There was no difference between ourselves and Tom Jones , we were trotting out the same material night after night and it was so safe and predictable — two things I 'd always vowed Stiff Little Fingers would never be . |
12 | If Unisys Corp 's iAPX-86-with-everything Unix strategy succeeds in building a substantial customer base , particularly among the company 's long-standing mainframe customers , the strategists at AT&T Co , whose NCR Corp is galloping down the same track and has a more extensive Intel Corp-based product line , will have to start weighing up whether a bid for Unisys could be made to make sense : AT&T would likely want a recommended offer , coupled with arrangements for a management buyout of at least one of the conflicting mainframe lines . |
13 | Fairfax is driving down the same track in the opposite direction . |
14 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
15 | I like er back , he 's coming back that 's coming back an all , oh yes |
16 | The practice of medicine is carrying on the same way as it has done before but we 're addressing issues like quality and standards and timing and waiting lists in a way we have n't done before . |
17 | Only when the head of accounting ( ’ an ‘ acceptable ’ woman 's role ’ ) took her to one side and showed her the company 's payroll did she realise that while she was bringing in the most revenue , she was being paid the smallest salary . |
18 | At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’ |
19 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
20 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
21 | Because once the ship come up that 's still a certain amount of water in the hold which that must be , cos then once you heave your door up then of course you load your ship again and then cos your ship was going down the more mud you put in , course mud is heavier than water |
22 | Was getting down the same as getting up and could you do it in platforms and slingbacks ? |
23 | Was getting down the same as getting up and could you do it in platforms and slingbacks ? |