Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] pressing " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 2 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , who has been pressing for CUTS in interest rates , said the rise was ‘ disastrous . ’ |
| 3 | What we decided to do , because I thought that 's what you 'd been pressing for , was to show that as the equivalent affect of , okay , you think you 're making these profits but you 're actually enjoying services that you 're not paying for . |
| 4 | About all the exercise you get is pressing the button on your automatic gear change . |
| 5 | The Dept of Health says ’ we are aware of the problem and we 've been pressing the medical profession to do something about it for some time . |
| 6 | That is why we have been pressing within the EC for full liberalisation of services . |
| 7 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman may already have guessed that we have been pressing others to play their part in the important work in which the United Nations is engaged . |
| 9 | They have been pressing allies to corroborate their findings . |
| 10 | They have been pressing the president to appeal to regional leaders for support , offering them more local powers under the new constitution . |
| 11 | He has been pressing her to move for some time . |
| 12 | Mr Beacham said he has been pressing the British Legion to put Stephen 's name on the role of honour . |
| 13 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 14 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 15 | The director of policy of the Consumers ' Association , Stephen Locke , said it had been pressing the Government to introduce the measures for some time . |
| 16 | He had been pressing for the opportunity to abandon himself , free of dogma , and here it was . |
| 17 | He said he 's been pressing and pressurizing the Health Authority about the their plans for . |
| 18 | But with him having on this side , because he 's so blooming awkward he 's been pressing the play switch and of course , so the tapes been turning round , have n't bothered to che , so you know , he was sort of saying well well play that tape and I 'll write their names down of the people as they speak , just the first names , you know so there 's loads of |