Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [v-ing] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sub-text is often : ‘ I 've no desire whatsoever to be speaking on this phone to anyone . ’ |
| 2 | So some of the things that we 're going to be looking at this morning is ways for you to use , that the people working with you can come up with some new ideas , but you can also use these ways yourself , because sometimes you do n't have the luxury of people to help you with your problem . |
| 3 | They were meant to be looking after this lad and they had clearly got a duty to do so . ’ |
| 4 | But it 's important , for what we 're going to be thinking of this morning to re , keep that little phrase in mind that Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side , there was purpose in going into that boat . |
| 5 | I 've had three letters now , one from David , one from you and one from Beeston all assuming that I seem to be dealing with this subject , erm it 's a Beeston commitment |
| 6 | Moreover , the economic cleavage that was perceived to be developing in this society did appear to correspond to the religious tensions that were generating party strife , and to anxious High Church Tories seemed to be yet another part of the process whereby Dissenters were thriving in the changed political climate after the Revolution at the expense of the Anglican interest . |
| 7 | She glanced at David and wryly saw that he seemed to be listening to this conversation with great interest . |
| 8 | I always see him riding about up the Steven there he 's always up there I know when I used to work for it was always Steve who used to be riding to this farm , riding to that farm , checking on this , checking on that and taking the wages round that sort of thing . |
| 9 | Fr John is a lucky man to be coming to this parish . |
| 10 | His looming presence utterly cowed Rickie who whined something about only wanting to play Ellen a little night music , and that he had not meant any harm , and what was a guy supposed to be doing on this boat anyway ? |
| 11 | No I 've got nothing else to be doing at this moment . |
| 12 | Whilst poor Millie , far from playing cello concertos at the Festival Hall , or leading archaeological expeditions to Asia Minor , or whatever she was expected to be doing by this time , is … |
| 13 | You do n't want to be talking with this scum . ’ |
| 14 | It 's easy but sneaky ; you ferry a dump of fuel , shielding , a nuke and a missile , load up on fuel and a nuke , fly out and up eight clicks , drop the nuke at the foot of the mountains , power-dive back down to base , load the shielding , fuel to the max with just one missile aboard ( meanwhile the nuke explodes , shaking the ground ; you do n't want to be fuelling at this point ) , then you climb like fuck , get to ceiling and then hover in the air above the rising mushroom cloud ! |
| 15 | As a family Queen 's Park Baptist Church means a lot to us , and it is good to be going into this task with such a strong church behind us . |
| 16 | Having said this , let me try to make clear what I do not mean to be claiming in this section , lest I be taken to be arguing for more than I intend to be . |
| 17 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 18 | Fat Paul still seemed to be reeling at this development . |
| 19 | Perhaps the only facts that seem to be emerging on this topic are the following two : first , slavery is rare among hunters and gatherers , and , secondly , it occurs most often among pastoralists [ Goody , 1980 ] . |
| 20 | Using LFS data , Table 7.1 shows that temporary workers in semi- and lower skilled industrial occupations are more likely to be working on this basis because they do not want permanent jobs . |
| 21 | As more Disability Arts Forums emerge and the involvement of disabled people and non-disabled allies increases , this is the most rapidly shifting and most exciting time to be working towards this aim . |
| 22 | so who 's going to be sitting in this chair for the rest of the season … if you 're an Oxford fan you 'll have some thoughts … and you can have your say … we 've a competition to pick the manager … |
| 23 | so who 's going to be sitting in this chair for the rest of the season … if you 're an Oxford fan you 'll have some thoughts … and you can have your say … we 've a competition to pick the manager … |