Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rejoice that their pews are full , without facing the sobering fact that they are only filling them by emptying someone else 's . |
| 2 | We are not preventing anybody from making a bid , but we believe that there should be one form of assistance per company . |
| 3 | Similarly , he feels that by offering it as a no-cost option , the company invalidates the criticism that users will tie themselves into a non-standard technology : since V.32terbo is downwardly compatible with V.32bis , he points out that users are not losing anything by giving themselves the option of faster transmission with V.32terbo . |
| 4 | We 're not doing anything except following ‘ em . ’ |
| 5 | " I 'm not stopping you from carrying on your interview , " Grout said , shaking his head . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not accusing you of getting older . |
| 7 | Perhaps I 'm still punishing him by penning this recollection , or am I perhaps finally laying the ghost ? |
| 8 | AFTER THE Tunney fiasco , they were n't doing anything without putting it through the full committee structure . |
| 9 | The Senior Management team were evidently congratulating themselves on having recruited such an able young lady . |
| 10 | We just thought the T-shirts were funny , and we had them done because we were absolutely shitting ourselves about playing . ’ |
| 11 | We just thought the T-shirts were funny , and we had them done because we were absolutely shitting ourselves about playing . ’ |
| 12 | Life is constantly astonishing us by confronting us with new kinds of character , and thereby with different kinds of goodness . |
| 13 | Davis is not taking it for granted . |
| 14 | I think we have to recognise Angela 's concern if er a subject area that she 's trying to present , present and she is not precluding you from doing what you 've got |
| 15 | Smith is still taking nothing for granted — he 's had the Danish champions watched five times . |
| 16 | He just reads their mail without them knowing it and the thing that would really appeal to him is that the companies he sets his sights on are actually paying him for delivering it ! ’ |
| 17 | I was just congratulating myself on negotiating the first and second holes fairly well when disaster struck at the 142-yard par-three third . |
| 18 | Quietly sipping champagne in a corner of the large marquee , Laura was just chiding herself for having over-reacted in such a feeble , juvenile way towards a man who could n't possibly be interested in her , when she looked up — and suddenly found Ross standing in front of her ! |
| 19 | He was usually decrying her for displaying that vice . |
| 20 | Dane was either unaware of her stunned reaction , or else was simply taking it for granted , she thought irritably . |
| 21 | She seemed to accept Neil 's presents as her right and , what 's more , was increasingly taking it for granted they would be expensive . |
| 22 | Surely he was n't accusing her of lying about this , too ? |
| 23 | Leith had almost finished her second course when , quite happy to let Travis talk away , she suddenly wondered , as he began to get repetitive , if she was indeed helping him by letting him talk so much on the same theme . |
| 24 | She was very sorry for her mistake and was therefore punishing herself by agreeing to marry him . |