Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [adv] [v-ing] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the time we 're either sitting outside the head 's office or we are either fighting or we are either arguing with them . |
| 2 | Dommer had been following the exchange from his bunk , where he was obsessively stripping and reassembling his flamer . |
| 3 | The largest explosion would take place at the base , where he was now working and that , too , would take the longest to plant . |
| 4 | I bear this in mind for my next visit and reflect that I am already learning and making mental notes about this hitherto unfished — by me at any rate — stretch of river . |
| 5 | Not that I am deliberately distorting or mis-speaking our findings , but because I have selected and imposed an order on the research which suits my theoretical and creative purposes and which therefore paints nature in the colours in which I wish to view it . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , if you must know , that I 'm just waiting and hoping for the chance to marry you some day . ’ |
| 7 | And there will be opportunities to apply for support from the British Film Institute and elsewhere erm in order that we can expand er what we 're doing in that area and I , I just wanted to let the board know about that and to say that erm er this is the route that I 'm currently taking and erm I will be reporting to them when there are specific developments and that I hope that you approve of er me attempting to expand our provision in this area . |
| 8 | had something else that I was just doing and I thought Oh I should be at Ian 's for five o'clock . |
| 9 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 10 | She is back in the house that she is always remembering and talking endlessly about , she has her precious Miss Cress . |
| 11 | Hours later , an employee at the funeral home found faint signs that she was still breathing and had her rushed to the hospital in what the funeral home owner said could be nothing but ‘ a miracle ’ . |
| 12 | If she partly infers a higher average price level than she was originally expecting and partly infers a relative demand increase then the generally expected price level will be somewhere between P and P 2 , and hence there will be some increase in aggregate output above its natural level . |
| 13 | The other thing to avoid is swaying backward and forward so that you are alternately bellowing and whispering , fading out or disappearing entirely at intervals like a badly tuned radio station ! |
| 14 | It can be a product or service you 've bought in , not necessarily a product or service that you are actually producing or generating yourselves . |
| 15 | The point I 'd like to make is that we 're here representing and a number of the parish councils in the Selby area . |
| 16 | There would be erm the possibility of the unitary authorities themselves getting together to prepare joint structure plans , so in as , as , instead of having a joint authority with er members joining in , in one committee to oversee the preparation of the plan , there would be individual authorities er working to their own committees with members er operating separately , but preparing through that mechanism a joint structure plan and the third option would be for each authority itself to prepare a unitary development plan , incorporating both strategic policies and the sorts of policies that we are currently seeing and familiar with in local plans . |
| 17 | No , he said : ‘ I was referring to the legacy of the recession that we are now curing and that has now hit every other nation in Europe . ’ |
| 18 | Men said they were more likely to have an orgasm , but that there was more exploring and learning involved with a woman . |
| 19 | Real problems , problems that they 're currently facing or issues that the company 's facing , they like real problems activate things . |
| 20 | The children become spoiled and materialistic in their attitudes and parents complain that they are so demanding and never satisfied . |
| 21 | I get fed up with people always assuming that refugees have nothing positive to offer this country and that they are merely bringing or being problems . |
| 22 | For the first 25 years of my life I was convinced that everybody was either writing or wanted to write a novel . |
| 23 | There is a risk that what is intended to be an aid only during training can become an undesirable crutch in that performance comes to depend on it but this is rare and can be avoided by using a suitable time delay , thus ensuring that it is really learning and not action feedback . |
| 24 | The popularity of Wade 's sculpture was probably due not only to the fact that it was always comprehensible but that it was both ennobling and restrained in equal measure . |
| 25 | A broader assessment of fiscal policy has concluded that it was positively destabilising but , as has been suggested above , this was probably of marginal significance [ Dow , 1964 ; Blackaby , 1978 ] . |
| 26 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 27 | And having met him , he at once began studying him and suffering with him : observing him ab extra and sharing the inside of his head ; hence his sense that he is both witnessing and experiencing the ‘ strange smile ’ which accompanies Raskolnikov 's surprise at his own dread of meeting his landlady . |
| 28 | In addition , entries in his diary indicate that he was both copying and selling these films . |
| 29 | On the one hand Mrs Singh was told that his drawing and writing were immature , that he was still drawing and writing like a very young child ; yet later she was told that he was very good with a pencil and talented at art ! |
| 30 | ‘ What we have here , ’ she says , ‘ is an oldtime country school , and I 'm still teaching and the kids are still learning . ’ |