Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | AFRC 's change in direction , forced on it by the government 's withdrawal from ‘ near market ’ research , is allowing it to do more of this exciting fundamental research . |
| 3 | I i in a way , way th that they 're going beyond it not because the Party 's encouraging them to do it , but because they 're doing it themselves . |
| 4 | Well , I 'm basically interested in the way in which education , or formal schooling , has attempted to prepare girls for their lives in the future , whether it prepares them for a life of , say , motherhood and working in the family , or whether it 's encouraging them to do work outside the home and try and achieve in the areas that men traditionally achieve . |
| 5 | Nobody 's suggesting we do that , that would be a ludicrous situation . |
| 6 | When it 's raining you do n't have to worry so much . |
| 7 | Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor . |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't compare Brian with God , ’ said Constance , ‘ but when he 's sulking you do n't half know it . ’ |
| 9 | it 's completely anonymous number you know it 's only to be on that , said I 'll wipe it off then , you bloody well wo n't , I think he wants to tell people before he can say very wrong , could say something personal , if it was personal , no longer it , no you were n't personal to you , but I 'm quite happy to arrange it if you wish , no , no , no , no , no , , I should n't have to tell you not to take my points in full , there we go it 's driving me doing that in the factory having without people 's permission , I want to know , I ask permission if I 'd er wanted to as a without being asked to do it , I would of gone and seen personnel and asked , I would not of dreamed of doing it in a work 's situation unless I was asked , say anything personal I 'd turned it off not that it , apart from me and Stuart |
| 10 | ‘ Nobody 's denying you did good work on that blend . |
| 11 | Just make sure that anyone who 's training you does n't restrict what you learn by not allowing you to practise , ask questions , observe and read alone for yourself . |
| 12 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 13 | Councillor regrets that er we 're bringing council rents up by nine and half percent but what we 're doing is in fact precisely what his government is recommending us to do , so I 'm a little sup so would councillor kindly at some point explain why he regrets his own government 's policy . |
| 14 | If we go back to the criterion of incompetence described at the outset , their actions are incompetent in the sense that they produce what they do not intend , and they do so repeatedly , even though no one is forcing them to do so . |
| 15 | ‘ Where he 's going he does n't need to know anything . ’ |
| 16 | Learners require opportunities for both form-focused and function-focused practice in the development of particular skill areas , and if one or the other is lacking they do not appear to benefit as much … |
| 17 | Depends depends on what everyone else is doing I du n no . |
| 18 | His uncertainty principle ( discussed in detail in Chapter 5 ) says that if I know where an electron is I have no idea of what it is doing and , conversely , if I know what it is doing I do not know where it is . |
| 19 | He 's letting me do that is he ? |
| 20 | Teacher that 's letting us do this . |
| 21 | Cos that 's the only trouble is with black it never looks er ca you know unless it 's shining it do n't look nice does it ? |
| 22 | Obviously erm in in receiving those additional figures I accept what the in senior inspector says about not er opening up the need side of the debate but clearly is I think the er Mr from Harrogate is saying it does it does cast a question mark on the supply dimension of the debate in terms of additional and commitments coming into the the figures to meet the Greater York housing requirement . |
| 23 | So Elaine 's having hers done . |
| 24 | I know that Pam Palmer said of one of her friends whose husband who 's having he did n't like his work . |
| 25 | ‘ If we feel something is threatening we do n't laugh . |
| 26 | One 's saying we do it for free and another one 's saying it is n't . |
| 27 | But he was prepared to negotiate on something which now he 's saying he did n't negotiate . |
| 28 | he 's saying he did n't say it in the first place . |
| 29 | Well that 's a good idea , the thing , you see the thing is she says oh , we , I read anything , you know , buy anything , well I said well suppose you 've already got it , you know , it 's erm , and also we offered him some , some author 's names so he did n't like this , and he did n't want that , you see , so , erm , but , in one hand he 's saying buy me anything and the other hand he 's saying I do n't like this and I do n't like that |
| 30 | She 's saying I do n't think we want to go out . |