Example sentences of "they [am/are] [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Both speakers and writers find this useful when they are referring to two things , one animate , one inanimate .
2 They are hiding in one of every three of the delicious chocolate eggs .
3 They are hiding in one of every three of the delicious chocolate eggs .
4 I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business .
5 The larger agencies supplying secretarial and office staff in the metropolitan areas , primarily because they are competing with one another for scarce labour , are increasingly offering the sort of fringe benefits associated with employment .
6 Often , he says , ecosystems are at their most diverse when they are shifting from one state to another , as the dominant types are temporarily swept aside , and many other , perhaps more specialist species , take over the vacant niches .
7 So you run the risk that they are thinking about one thing while you are pursuing another ;
8 They are looking at four possible sites .
9 Beginners often make the mistake of looking down when they are moving from one position to another , thus breaking the cardinal first rule of combat , which is never to take your eyes off your opponent .
10 And for an English/French speaker , adoption of bird for a short time precluded oiseau Once such children realize they are dealing with two languages , however , they begin to use labels from both languages for the same category , both leche and milk They start to do this once they themselves can produce about 150–200 words ( Taeschner , 1983 ) .
11 New car registrations — only half a million in 1958 — jumped in 1963 to more than a million ( Today , they are running at two million . )
12 Yeah , yeah bu yeah , but they are rehearsing for two and a half hours .
13 They are playing for one of the biggest clubs in the game and that should be a source of pride , but that seemed to be painfully absent at Bradford last week .
14 They are asking for eight per cent , whereas the housing associations can afford to pay only three-and-a-half per cent . ’
15 They are shutting off 35 roads in Handsworth , Birmingham , to create 28 ‘ public safety zones ’ for the event which is expected to attract 500,000 visitors .
16 And after this first success at breeding a Freckled duck outside Australia , they 're bringing in 10 adult ducks in the hope of them breeding some more .
17 They 're looking for two vital elements , ’ explains Matthew .
18 They revealed they 're looking for two suspects .
19 They revealed they 're looking for two suspects .
20 they 're looking for four fifty it 's a sixteen hundred with black cloth interior terrible
21 They 're looking for one sort of nice house to sort of show them more or less .
22 They 're meeting at nine — we 've just got time . ’
23 They 're splitting into two groups to surround us , Khan .
24 Meet the Brittonioni Brothers , a couple of avante garde movie makers , never happier than when they 're jetting from one international festival to another .
25 Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person
26 For every ten seconds er no for w for twenty seconds , the first twenty seconds , they 're accelerating to twenty me metres per second per second .
27 They 're coming in three times a week .
28 Well if they 're going onto eight hour regular they 'll probably they 'll probably still change their mind .
29 So they 're going at fifty five metres every twenty seconds , and you can imagine Peter O'Sullivan , now look at this Pip , they 're going at a , a nice steady fifty five metres every twenty seconds , what 's that in metres per second ?
30 I mean they 're going at seventy and eighty miles an hour .
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