Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been puzzling to establish and I have failed , whether on the fourteenth of January nineteen eighty seven when the Secretary of State wrote the notice of approval , which in confirms his view that forty three per hectare is right , whether the use classes order had then been amended . |
| 2 | And I 've been wanting to ask if they got a record o' that at Pulham St Mary . |
| 3 | " Just say that you are writing to confirm that you want a detailed report because the matter is of such importance to so many people , and are prepared to wait for it . |
| 4 | I am writing to say that I agree , Martina has to be the best player in the world next to Billie Jean King . |
| 5 | I am writing to advise that I have taken over the role of Computer Liaison Officer for the Trading Standards Department . |
| 6 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 7 | Mark , you should say what you 're going to do before you do it ! |
| 8 | But of course if we 're going to do that we need somewhere to start and where we 're going to start is that I 'm going to ask you to each to make a presentation , a very short presentation . |
| 9 | Mm , that 's obviously what you 're going to do cos you 've got , August colours there . |
| 10 | War 's been declared and all you can think about , all you can talk about is what you 're going to do if I do n't stop seeing Carrie . ’ |
| 11 | For the moment , at least , you 're going to do as I say . ’ |
| 12 | I think it 's when black kids and whites start thinking about what they 're going to do when they leave school . |
| 13 | And then she starts demanding to know what they 're going to do and he keeps saying they 're gon na write , they 're gon na write , they 're gon na write . |
| 14 | Mr Baker 's party takes a different view ; they 've only to explain to the public how we 're going to succeed if we do n't invest in our own future , in our education and training and in good social services for our people , because I do n't see how it can be done . |
| 15 | " Now you 're going to ask if I hate all men . |
| 16 | I particularly found the Aldershot method important because what it gives you is a clear structure to what you have to say when you stand up if you 're going to introduce by saying what you 're going to say before you expand and then at the end summarise and bring it all back to a nice conclusion . |
| 17 | But if you can raise that profile which I talk about , the of the ethics of of your trade , your profession and become , in effect , a pressure group , a pressure group for the public good , while we may not always agree with you , and indeed we 're going to say that we do n't agree with you and you must n't be afraid of that but we would rather hear from you , you 're the men and women at the sharp end , I hesitate to say ‘ experts ’ because ‘ expert ’ is a , a rather over-used word but we 'd much rather hear from you , at the sharp end , than the part-time politicians who , by the very nature of , of their role , and however well-meaning they may be , they have other priorities . |
| 18 | And what a shock you 're going to get when you find his full army there , all but a hundred or two . ’ |
| 19 | The more it rains , the fuller the stream will get and the bigger the problem , so really , time is the most important factor , especially as we do n't really know what we 're going to find when we get down there . ’ |
| 20 | You do n't know who you 're going to meet when you get outside . |
| 21 | Because they all have if you like every location business location will have their own favourites who they 're going to recommend that we approach . |
| 22 | Not so much tears but you know how they get sometimes , you think they 're going to cry and they do n't , they just keep going on and on . |
| 23 | Let's leave the mountains wild and dangerous and just make sure we know what we 're going to face when we tackle them , and go fully prepared . |
| 24 | ‘ We met on this show , got married , and now we 're getting divorced because I earn more money than him . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're beginning to own that you have feelings for me . |
| 26 | They 're coming to see if we have though . |
| 27 | Now you 're trying to say that you led me on out of concern for him — ’ |
| 28 | I see a set of conclusions that achieve almost everything that was demanded at that time and I am grateful to everybody concerned who 's actually sat down and actually really thought about what we 're trying to do and everybody has made some compromise here and I shall certainly support this amendment and I shall make the compromise because the one thing in here that I thought was necessary that is n't there is the statement that there will be a head of centre and having actually worked in a project , head of sorry , head of project and having actually worked in a situation where I was a joint manager erm in the long run I think people will see the the wisdom of of a single head of project . |
| 29 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 30 | Although we could n't tell them that we 're trying to achieve because we have n't we have n't discussed |