Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The Los Angeles communities are demanding that they are policed and patrolled by individuals who live in the community and the commanding officers by ten-year residents of the community in which they serve .
2 Polygamy is now going out of favour , especially as the risk of contracting AIDS through multiple sexual partners is high , and as women become more liberated they are demanding that it be made illegal .
3 RAP trio Salt N' Pepa are fuming after they were gazumped by a New York property speculator .
4 Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out .
5 Now hopefully , Dick said they 're palletizing while they 're waiting for the containers they 're also palletizing the rest of that stuff .
6 We 're spluttering but we 're surviving .
7 You 're pretending that you 're speaking to somebody and just speak all the time .
8 You have to know where you 're going if you are to plan the best way of getting there !
9 for you 're watched where you 're going and you 're followed where you 're going .
10 You 're waiting and you 're thinking Er and this is particularly the case with a large goods vehicle , you 'll be sitting waiting to go and there 's a lovely gap and you think Can I ?
11 You know I mean you 're wondering whether it 's going to blow the chimney pot off or all sorts of things .
12 In fact , we 're wondering whether it 's going to be possible to keep it up but the trouble is it 's in an area where in the last ooh , over over recent years forty chapels have closed !
13 Do you feel like it 's almost like doing a different thing that you 're not , you know when you 're actually acting in the play you 're more self conscious and you 're more conscious of what you 're you 're moving and you 're speaking and whereas the likes of the panto you know you just be yourself really with a bit of fun thrown in .
14 Just say no you 're doing that I 'm doing it .
15 I know you do Chair , you know what you 're doing but I 'm saying it 's a waste of time us having to move one .
16 Well they understand what they 're doing in the same way as they understand what they 're doing when they 're watching a video .
17 see what you 're doing if you 're writing .
18 There 's no law saying he ca n't be be an inch up your arse , as long as he do n't hit you If you 're doing if you 're doing
19 He knows what we 're doing , he knows what we 're doing cos he 's standing there looking at us .
20 Okay , have a go at it and we 'll come round and correct what you 're doing as you 're doing it , alright , so you want to pad over the wound to keep infection out and then try to get your bandage on top of that to keep the dressing in place .
21 Thirdly , people reach a stage of what we conscious competence in that they 're very aware of what they 're doing and they 're doing it correctly but they 're still at that stage where they 're fairly new and they 're very conscious of what they 're doing .
22 So you 're saying that they were driven more by there political desire for power than by their ideology because had absolute egalitarianism worked then they should have been satisfied with that because then they were fulfilling their ideology .
23 Clearly state that , we 're assuming that you are going to divide er divert the footpath , we 're not going to .
24 You 're putting the meal up fifteen percent , and you 're assuming that you 're going to charge them two pounds for the attendance to that centre .
25 I was gon na say you 're reading and I 'm thinking I ai n't got them ones .. e .
26 ‘ We 're finding that they 're getting reviewed , but quite a lot of papers are still bad about it , ’ says Ms Callil .
27 We 're hoping and I 'm crossing my fingers here , that we 'll get in excess of five thousand people there and the interesting thing is we 've got a commercial exhibition at it , to give it a flavour of Scotland where people will show all the good things made in Scotland and we 're calling it the taste and touch of Scotland and hopefully that will offset the cost of all the other , other er stalls and things that we 're holding .
28 It 's very easy to do it because all you do is how many people go there , you know , who runs it runs it stuff like that and you just , you 're exploring and you 're getting more information and it 's that 's great , fine .
29 So as long as you you 're thinking that they 're doing okay and meeting the market demand .
30 Yeah but in an exercise like this you 're thinking when they 're saying that , Oh I would n't normally say that .
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