Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can happen that when an assistant is helping somebody to get dressed , the person suddenly gets violent . |
| 2 | ‘ Chris , ’ she says , ‘ is helping me to play all the tournaments and providing me with clothes and rackets . |
| 3 | Zednik is helping him overcome that . |
| 4 | From February '97 onwards Helen is helping him to buy some newly needed textbooks . |
| 5 | For some of these adults , aged from their twenties to forties , expert counselling on a one to one basis is helping them to go a great deal further . |
| 6 | Their movements reflect their aural memory at work ; their own ‘ inner speech ’ is helping them to interpret what they read . |
| 7 | It gives local authorities an additional one hundred million pounds to spend when the low level of inflation is helping them keep down the cost of providing their services . |
| 8 | This is helping them to investigate global warming . |
| 9 | Yes I I have er our management in inns erm believe that it is one of the major factors which is helping them to reduce their management turnover . |
| 10 | I would say rather that , both despite and because of the obvious and considerable differences , post/modernism is helping us to understand again what the early modern period already knew but in a quite different form : identity is essentially informed by what it is not . |
| 11 | Archaeology has become significantly more scientific , with the result that science is helping it evolve from being something of a treasure hunt to a high tech study . |
| 12 | The company is using its global broadband network to link the services and is using them to launch a Global Managed Data Service which will compete with the likes of British Telecommunications Plc 's Global Network Service and Infonet . |
| 13 | One of the groups which developed the technique is using it to investigate chemistry ; the other is claiming a record for generating the shortest wavelength of coherent ( laser-like ) light . |
| 14 | It 's speeding I expect |
| 15 | ‘ Henriss … never liked him either ; fat lipped beggar … queer , y'know ; thass wha he 's singing you know ; d' you know that ? |
| 16 | Anyone who is unprotected and is touching anything connected with the building would be absorbed . |
| 17 | The Logger 's helping them tighten up even more . |
| 18 | It 's helping them to understand the immense pressures on them to stay forever in the closet . |
| 19 | He 's helping me to make a chair . |
| 20 | Sheepishly I fed the other meter , too , and slouched in to see my Alexander Technique teacher , who 's helping me to stand up straight . |
| 21 | No , I just started a part-time job and my boyfriend 's , come and watch them and he 's helping me cleaning the house and everything 's clean when I come home . |
| 22 | It 's in her name , she 's , her father 's helping her paid the deposit or something and she clears the mortgage she has no right , he has no right to it all if she went to the police . |
| 23 | Direct pressure over the wound , not your hand but the casualty 's if they 're still conscious blood clots yes , what 's helping it to clot is a special process in the blood |
| 24 | My group is suggesting they increase by five hundred thousand which is over a hundred per cent increase and I su I support this . |
| 25 | ‘ No-one is suggesting you have , ’ said Montgomery soothingly . |
| 26 | So you might find that if you do a thing on the H P you may find that what is being what 's happening is that it it it 's creating the wrong size addressings in the look up table because either it 's using you know , er signed and it 's su assuming unsigned byte or something . |
| 27 | And then what really bugs those people is seeing me keep catching up with them . |
| 28 | What I ca n't take is seeing you distressed like this and not knowing why . |
| 29 | PC Week quotes Microsoft 's vice president , systems strategy John Lazarus as saying that IBM has rights under a previously secret codicil in their settlement last month to port NT to the RS/6000 : Microsoft is encouraging them to do it . |
| 30 | Central Government is encouraging us to borrow , and I was pleased to hear Councillor on papery actually accept that borrowing under F T C was acceptable . |