Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [v-ing] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am just hoping and praying he is not going to be used as a human shield . |
| 2 | I bear this in mind for my next visit and reflect that I am already learning and making mental notes about this hitherto unfished — by me at any rate — stretch of river . |
| 3 | If they do n't respond I will say the next letter will be , okay I am now resigning and your car and your stock wo n't be returned to you er but I 'm holding them in lieu . |
| 4 | The best known is the ‘ plain ’ blue variety ; over the past few years the new ‘ red ’ form has become very popular with Apistogramma enthusiast — this form has an orange-red centre to the caudal fin and a lot of orange-red in the dorsal , and is the type I am currently keeping and breeding . |
| 5 | I 'm just watching and letting things go . |
| 6 | Yes , I 'm just looking and March the twenty sixth is free . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , if you must know , that I 'm just waiting and hoping for the chance to marry you some day . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm just sitting and watching . |
| 9 | You know , I 'm easy going and I can cope with that , and get on and do the job with whatever it is that 's got to be done . |
| 10 | And there will be opportunities to apply for support from the British Film Institute and elsewhere erm in order that we can expand er what we 're doing in that area and I , I just wanted to let the board know about that and to say that erm er this is the route that I 'm currently taking and erm I will be reporting to them when there are specific developments and that I hope that you approve of er me attempting to expand our provision in this area . |
| 11 | you know I 'm still struggling and we were having a laugh , but the others who had him last term , said he was brilliant , because he actually combines work individually |
| 12 | ‘ What we have here , ’ she says , ‘ is an oldtime country school , and I 'm still teaching and the kids are still learning . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm still renovating and furnishing much of it . |
| 14 | In the end I had to admit he was right and I 'm still extending and using the ideas where they apply to my present job . |
| 15 | That 's what it is Martin , confirmation really of what er Mick said to you in that interview , Steve , Tommy two , three but playing at central defence , Dean 'll be the skipper playing in midfield , Michael at the heart of the defence , Phil in midfield , Paul wears seven but will play up front , er Mark at eight in midfield , wears nine , well that 's a bit of nonsense is n't i in terms of numbering , cos he 's gon na play at left back not at centre forward , Gary is ten , Tony eleven , then on the bench , really good to see David and Rod , Bob 's there as well along with er Paul and that 's er possibly a a first chance for the youngster there , and Michael who has been bloodied already but er a little bit of experience in and er the youngsters , and as I say again it 's really good to see and in the number and er I 'm still practising and I shall give you the Pisa team when you return to the er rather sodden Lane with the spectators all huddled towards the back of the stands to get er extra protection from the er rain that 's being swept a on to the stands and er has obliterated the markings on the pitch . |
| 16 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |
| 17 | I only just reached my study before I was again burning and freezing with the violent passions of Hyde . |
| 18 | had something else that I was just doing and I thought Oh I should be at Ian 's for five o'clock . |
| 19 | basket well I was just saying and them chairs to do . |
| 20 | it 's in thingy , I did n't want I was just checking and the |
| 21 | While I was afflicted with serious English composition and English literature , I was reading Scott , Fenimore Cooper , Henty , and the travellers , because I loved them ; I was also thinking and talking in a manner which owed little to those dignified exercises , though the day was to come when I spoke very much as I wrote … |
| 22 | when I lost my weight with slimming we were try I was losing two pounds a week and I were n't starving , I was still drinking and it come off and I lost , I lost about I think it was about eighteen pounds , it was over a stone . |
| 23 | I was still frowning and my throat felt constricted . |
| 24 | ‘ I THOUGHT I was still standing and then I realised I was on the floor . ’ |
| 25 | Eventually I got an old house , I had another baby , I was still working and put the kids in a nursery . |
| 26 | I was still going and getting the shopping for my mum , and looking after my sister 's baby as she could n't cope because he was a naughty little boy . |
| 27 | I did n't know at what rate I was now travelling and no longer bothered to work it out . |
| 28 | When Queen Praxis tells Riddler , ‘ You are so adamantine and impermeable , ’ I could hear W C Fields sweetly explaining , ‘ I was only fooling and pretending . ’ |
| 29 | view is that one hopes that my hopes are that of the direct report you er worked for erm is equal and competent and is erm in a sense courageous and brave and that they realize that sometimes to get the best results you have to do things which are perhaps challenging and orthodox |
| 30 | Water is therefore no longer seen as a simple collection of individual water molecules , but as a complex random network of molecules linked together by hydrogen bonds and forming extensive three-dimensional structures which are continually changing and reorganizing . |