Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am glad to see that at last many parents now appear to be doing this . |
| 2 | Scaffolding is expected to be erected this week , marking the start of work to halt the tower 's tilt , which is growing by up to three millimetres a month . |
| 3 | Up to 1.2 million cubic metres are expected to be cut this year — three or four times as much as in 1991 . |
| 4 | Even more extraordinary was the fact that Nelson Mandela , the sixth and most eminent member of the group , appeared to have negotiated the terms of the release of his colleagues , who are expected to be freed this weekend . |
| 5 | The propane/butane fridges use no chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) or hydrochlorofluorocarbons ( HCFCs ) in their production ; 285,000 are expected to be made this year . |
| 6 | Steve Murray is also expected to be buried this weekend . |
| 7 | This is the tour party I expect to be named this morning : Gooch ( captain ) , Stewart ( vice-captain ) , Smith , Atherton , Fairbrother , Gatting , Hick , Reeve , Russell , Emburey , Tufnell , Lewis , DeFreitas , Malcolm , Cork , Jarvis . |
| 8 | ‘ It is a pity it has to be done this way , ’ Sandor observed . |
| 9 | It has to be finished this month in order to be considered for the Academy 's Summer Exhibition . |
| 10 | So far £114,957 has been raised but another £200,000 has to be found this year to keep the appeal on target . |
| 11 | So far £114,957 has been raised but another £200,000 has to be found this year to keep the appeal on target . |
| 12 | So far around £115,000 has been raised but another £200,000 has to be found this year to keep the appeal on target . |
| 13 | Another £200,000 has to be found this year to keep the appeal on target . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know if I want to be doing this in ten years ’ time but I certainly believe it is important to plan ahead . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , it 's dying to be born this one . ’ |
| 16 | Debate to be resumed this day . |
| 17 | He thinks about whether he really wants to be doing this with his life at all . |
| 18 | I mean er what I mean is it needs to be done this week sort of thing . |
| 19 | What can be wrong , however , with fantasising , treating a woman as an object , if there is no connection between the fantasy and real life and if she is depicted as wanting to be treated this way ? |
| 20 | Let me now take the propositions in order , examine them individually , and then indicate how , in my opinion , the employers came to be talking this kind of tripe . |
| 21 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 22 | He considered this , or seemed to be considering this . |
| 23 | He seemed to be doing this for our benefit , unaware that the sound-track was in our own language . |
| 24 | Her mother seemed to be coping this time , and they sincerely hoped she would n't go back , but she did . |
| 25 | It was important that they should all be seen to be doing this in a town as a matter of agreed policy , to present a common front to prospective buyers who could not therefore accuse a particular tradesman of unfairly , unjustly discrediting him as a personal vendetta . |
| 26 | It also occurs to me , as I watch the laibon direct a stream of sugar into his second cup of tea , that there may have been something degrading about being delivered this cultural snub . |
| 27 | ( By the way , in case they happen to be reading this , my apologies to Phillip , Mary , Harold and Henry for taking their names in vain ! ) |
| 28 | Are you going to be sending this ? |
| 29 | It 's probably true to say , is n't it , that anybody who 's going to be picking this up are going to be in the school system rather than in the private school system ? |
| 30 | Are you going to be send this too ? |