Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your net margin on sales is 10 per cent and the discount offered for early payment is 2.5 per cent , you are effectively giving away a quarter of your profit . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the banks are slowly slipping over a cliff . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 4 | ‘ But you are kinda running up a backlog in my favour account . ’ |
| 5 | I am merely pointing out the disadvantages of a romantic trip without romance . ’ |
| 6 | And a lot of people of course do n't go into our shops , so we feel that there are a lot of people out there who have a lot of sympathy for Oxfam 's aims and objectives , but are only lacking just the opportunity to give , and that 's what we hope to provide them with . |
| 7 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 8 | I am just filling in the days , she thought — until Edmund returns . |
| 9 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 10 | Word is coming in that rival hamlets are already filling in the forms as fast as they can put pen to paper . |
| 11 | His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike . |
| 12 | Alan Tonke who has set this one up says that it has n't been easy getting together a viable collection of items to auction . |
| 13 | At this point we 're only bringing in the Cherokee and the Viper , but ultimately we 'll bring in the Grand Cherokee and the minivan [ MPV ] , although we wo n't do those until we have right-hand drive versions , which may come before the next generation models . |
| 14 | So they are they 're being harsher on landlords but on the rich peasants they 're just taking back the land instead of |
| 15 | We 're just running out the material that we 've got here . |
| 16 | Because we 're massively speeding up the evolutionary process , we may well create destabilisation within the ecosystem . |
| 17 | So er we 're still hovering around a hundred but instead of being four over the hundred the present total is ninety six by my reckoning . |
| 18 | What I should 've realized was that we 're still filling in the form |
| 19 | Oh you 're still filling in the |
| 20 | But you 're still missing out a big , very important part of the graph , because for a lot of its range it actually , you know , looks something like well what would that look like ? |
| 21 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 22 | But that also is the case , I mean er er , a lot of time th the actual design of our houses does n't lend itself for us to actually look even if you 're you 're permanently looking out the window . |
| 23 | The man shouts , ‘ There ai n't no hurry , you got another ten minutes ’ , but by then we 're both hammering down the escalator . |
| 24 | We 're also giving away a cosy pair of totes Toasties — unique mittens for feet , with treaded soles — and a pair of gloves to keep you both warm on your flight . |
| 25 | thank you Denis … two season tickets to the manor for you Mr. Mullins … we 're also giving away a United shirt apiece to six runners up … and they 're Lee Lowe … |
| 26 | You 're probably wondering where the point lies in all this . |
| 27 | That shows that you 're actually picking up the sound . |
| 28 | And I think they 're actually picking out a particular area for a report is is not necessarily good practice. , erm I think we can identify er those areas piece by piece we will go through them , they can be brought forward to a variety of areas . |
| 29 | It 's quite a costly scheme because you 're actually paying both the employer 's and the employee 's contributions . |
| 30 | And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there . |