Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [v-ing] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are there any problems that may be looming on the horizon that perhaps you ought to be addressing before they reach the door ? |
| 2 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 3 | But I 'd also become disenchanted with pro-lifers who seemed to be saying that they loved my unborn baby but hated me ! |
| 4 | If the latter are regarded as territory to be defended , as rallying cries for confrontation with others , perhaps we ought to be asking whether they need to be so territorial ? |
| 5 | They complain that it is not fair for the tax office to be quibbling after they have spent all their profits on buying new stock whose value has declined to half or even less . |