Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had rather been hoping that I might see somebody I knew while I was in the town , but the only people I saw were old Mackenzie in the gun and tackle shop and Mrs Stuart in the cafe , yawning and fat behind her Formica counters and reading a Mills & boon . |
| 2 | The head office golf society has a big season lined up this year , so are hoping that the wet weather on March 31 at Langley Park will not set a precedent for its forthcoming dates . |
| 3 | The company might perhaps be saying that , as happens throughout Britain , nursery children are drawing on waste computer paper . |
| 4 | If she had not been implying that they , the comrades at No. 43 Old Mill Road , had unwittingly come closer to great events , then what did she mean ? |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |
| 6 | Or indeed the work that you 've just been discussing that we 've all pursued jointly in pinning down the government on the transfer of undertakings directive . |
| 7 | I 've just been explaining that Angela seems to have gone missing . ’ |
| 8 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 9 | The big cats of the Oxfordshire based Jaguar racing team might not be roaring that loud at Le mans this weekend … their three cars are facing exclusion from the 24 hour classic race which gets underway tomorrow … |
| 10 | Clearly my right honourable friend the secretary of state will want to hear the views of another place , but I can say that he will not be recommending that the amendment should be overturned . |
| 11 | And when you come down , remember to do so with dignity , so that Dom João will not be thinking that he is betrothed to a tinker 's daughter . " |
| 12 | One would then not be saying that natural selection does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life but that one has a certain belief to the effect that it does not do so . |
| 13 | ‘ You might not be saying that when the refugees come back from Australia , ’ Fergus said sourly . |
| 14 | If he really supports the work of the east London TEC , he should not be saying that firms should not spend 0.5 per cent . |
| 15 | Emil looked at his watch and another crew member arrived and said the computer in the crew 's room downstairs was showing that the special train had just pulled into the station , Gate 6 , Track 7 , as expected . |
| 16 | Although I 've always been saying that the lower ranked players should get more money , and we should re-distribute the money . |
| 17 | Now that she 's gone you wo n't always be saying that you 're off to the pictures with her . |
| 18 | The Kurdish delegates , to underline the point that they too are Iraqi , speak up against any violation of sovereignty ; they may also be proposing that the Kurdish guerrillas be somehow absorbed into the Iraqi armed forces as a local militia protecting the autonomous zone . |
| 19 | There 's the quiff from Peter , which is pointing out that the letter of confirmation that we reference to because it was a repeat , so reasonably enough they 're not going through all the assumptions , and he also is saying that the er , letters of confirmation that is a repeat of the previous job . |
| 20 | If a virus had begun to affect people who put crosses against Conservative candidates in general elections , I would presumably be arguing that this proved how immoral it was to vote Tory , but I hope nobody would believe me . |
| 21 | That would effectively require another audit to establish the position , because the Vendor would effectively be warranting that even in the light of events which have occurred prior to the Balance Sheet Data but which have come to light up to completion the Accounts still give a true and fair view of the Business 's financial position . |
| 22 | But of course no one has really been suggesting that history has no meaning , for the obvious reason that any interpretation of history as such must ipso facto assert meaning . |
| 23 | We are pleased to see that at least the Labour Party now are deciding that they can at last work with the Government . |
| 24 | Then without disclosing how — if he had the money to proceed on his own , he would not now be displaying that same information on Esther 's desk — he pressed her for a response . |
| 25 | The Papers today are saying that Leeds are going to sign Darren Ferguson from the scum for 500,000 ! ! ! ! |
| 26 | With the Berlin Wall , the most famous barrier of all , falling , the more media-conscious activists among the Soviet Jews already here are warning that Israel is just not prepared for the influx . |
| 27 | You ai n't been wearing that all day |
| 28 | do a bit of shopping so yeah , I have n't been doing that this last few weeks but , any |
| 29 | ‘ We 've lost four games , but have n't been playing that badly , whereas last season we got turned over at Aston Villa and Everton . |
| 30 | By the end of the evening you might well be accepting that I 'm a fully paid-up flesh-eating dinosaur like my parents ! ’ |