Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Seneca wrote that ‘ when we want to reach a city or marketplace , we watch where the people are going and we follow them ; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 32 | Keegan said : ‘ We now have a clearer picture of where we are going and we want to get the squad down to a manageable size . |
| 33 | Quite where the jobs are going and who does what at this stage I 'm not sure now we 're UNISON . |
| 34 | As a result of our action , real earnings are rising and we have lower interest rates , lower mortgage rates , lower inflation and the right circumstances for recovery . |
| 35 | ‘ As far as Frank is concerned , he is entirely satisfied with what I am doing and he has given me the space to get on with it . |
| 36 | ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’ |
| 37 | review with them where they 're at , record how they 're doing , you know tra , I mean I ca n't tell them to do that , but actually ask them to spend five or ten minutes each session talking to different pupils and what they 've been doing and you know even if it 's a personal timetable some people wo n't get into it but it 's you know , trying to get them to be what are tutors are , you know , I 'd like them to do . |
| 38 | That is what I 've been doing and I have had some marvellous views of them . ’ |
| 39 | OPHELIA has been sewing and she holds the garment . |
| 40 | The band are intelligent boys , they know what they are doing and we let them get on with it . |
| 41 | ‘ There are informal networks through which we let one another know what we are doing and we meet and talk . |
| 42 | We enter the area that they had been defending and everything shows that the Germans have pulled out in a hurry . |
| 43 | She 's been crying and I sent her home . |
| 44 | The other actions are continuing and I hope they get tidied up very quickly . ’ |
| 45 | If the big winds are blowing and you bribe them right , our staff may prolong safety cover to allow those who can competently carve gybe and water start to continue sailing . |
| 46 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 47 | Look , I 'm dying and I do n't know how . |
| 48 | I said what really bugs me is when I 'm driving and you come from behind somebody and then somebody overtakes you and . |
| 49 | ‘ If I 'm driving and I see someone commit an offence or something a bit dodgy I always make a mental note , ’ he said . |
| 50 | ‘ If I 'm driving and I see someone commit an offence or something a bit dodgy I always make a mental note , ’ he said . |
| 51 | Then she breathes out and gives a real smile — one of those big things that brightens her face like a starburst — and I see she 's been frightened , and I sigh , and suddenly I 've got a lump in my throat and I 'm trembling and I do n't think I can move away from this wall . |
| 52 | ‘ I expect it 's because I 'm writing and it takes longer , ’ Maggie confessed with a shrug . |
| 53 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 54 | I say I 'm going and I go . ’ |
| 55 | should , should attract visitors and things should be going and I do n't care how much |
| 56 | I had to be quick , they told me ; it was quite a long climb to the hut where Eric would be waiting and I had to return to Parma that night . |
| 57 | And then he come in to us then and he says to me I 'm bleeding and I had to get a plaster for him and he |
| 58 | In fact … one of them was stuffing something through the wire and bars of his cage which they should n't be doing and he did n't much like it … |
| 59 | I understand that you and/or your colleague Margaret Douglas will be coming and I look forward to meeting you . |
| 60 | Because it 's something I 'm doing and I 've just recorded all our conversation here |