Example sentences of "we [am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
2 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
3 | We hope the leaflet we are sending out to our motor policyholders will bring home to them the fact that most cars can be converted both simply and cheaply . ’ |
4 | And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go . |
5 | Perfect or absolute Truth , which is known by faith , is beyond our empirical grasp which means that we must act in the knowledge that we are holding on to such truth as we are able to apprehend in this world . |
6 | They do not know what we are getting up to , what we are saying about-them . |
7 | Erm , we are getting through on that , are you going to suggest on it ? |
8 | But we accept that there is not a customer for this work and we are getting on with the job of ensuring that the business as a whole continues to develop positively . |
9 | From 1989 , with around 165,000 divorces per annum , we are getting on for almost one in two marriages ending in divorce . |
10 | ‘ Now that we are getting back to realistic prices and trading performance can justify capital costs , it makes more sense to invest , ’ he said . |
11 | At last , Alida thought , at last we are getting down to business , to the signing of papers , the question of money . |
12 | I believe we are sailing out of troubled waters now . |
13 | We are moving on with the medical services . |
14 | We 're moving to Shanghai with mixed feelings , as we 've heard we 'll be staying in the Peace Hotel , in the noisy centre of the city , but it 's nice to feel now that we are moving on to the home stretch . |
15 | Several months ago we were in the depths of recession but signs are encouraging that we are moving out of it . ’ |
16 | De Klerk said his visit showed South Africa and the world that " we are moving back to the fold " . |
17 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
18 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
19 | Perhaps we are heading back in a full-circle towards the days of Victorian philanthropy — Back towards the days before state provision when organisations like Barnardos , the Salvation Army and the C.O.S. were the dominant providers . |
20 | We can not promise to meet orders , so we are running out of work . |
21 | ‘ Too often on the Today programme an interesting interview is cut short with the words ‘ I 'm afraid we are running out of time . |
22 | ‘ In the central area we are running out of stock . ’ |
23 | We are we are we are running out of time , John Taylor John Taylor I 'll come to you in a second , John Taylor shush , shush you 've had your shout , John Taylor |
24 | They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment . |
25 | Erm , due erm there 's also as you know , we 've , we 've had the chartered petition on the market and we are going on with that . |
26 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |
27 | We are going over to Trame to see what effect this is having . ’ |
28 | ‘ This afternoon we are going over to Trengirth Hill . ’ |
29 | ‘ We are going round to the stage door now , ’ she announced firmly . |
30 | And then Grainne said , ‘ It feels as if we are going down into some terrible prison , ’ and Raynor said , ‘ Yes , it is a prison . |