Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] this [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dearest darling , I do n't know whether I should be writing this to you , but I still think of you every day of my life , first thing when I wake up and last thing before I go to sleep . |
| 2 | It really did n't seem fair that life should be throwing this at her all at once . |
| 3 | Another girl commented that she had never ever been told she was beautiful , and believed strongly that all children should be told this by their parents . |
| 4 | the twentieth week you 're saying I should be starting this for January term ? |
| 5 | But the aim must be to do this in a manner which allows scope for each individual child to share in the responsibility for initiating and carrying out the tasks through which learning takes place . |
| 6 | Questions such as , ‘ Do you feel that you might be doing this in order to produce this kind of feeling or situation ? ’ , can lead counsellees to a re-examination of their motives . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll be reporting this to the Coroner 's office , ’ he said , as soon as Oates had introduced Patrick . |
| 8 | Erm in fact a similar effect happens , I 'll be mentioning this in the lecture but let me just mention it now . |
| 9 | I 'll be keeping this for the next few days with me looking after it . |
| 10 | It was unfair and wrong that life could be doing this to her ; she needed her son and he needed to be here . |
| 11 | I could be doing this with the mouse but . |
| 12 | The predictable result would have been an intensification of agriculture and we may be witnessing this in the drift of settlements ending on more fertile and productive soils and the changes in cereal crops being cultivated . |
| 13 | I reminded her that , since she would be doing this under hypnosis , it was still possible to use the detachment technique if I thought she was becoming distressed in any way . |
| 14 | What sort of person would she have been , I 'm I 'm wondering whether she would be doing this for money or was she be doing it because she really cared about people . |
| 15 | I shall be pursuing this with Frank Taylor , the Chief Constable , ’ said Mr Fallon . |
| 16 | We shall be examining this in another chapter . |
| 17 | A pregnant employee will be given this by a doctor or midwife . |
| 18 | How many Masai will be doing this in twenty years ’ time ? |
| 19 | We have a different role , but nevertheless and even , an important one is perhaps in even looking further ahead than the Emergency Planning and therefore I would support er in being brief I would support very much erm Mr 's er motion if you can call it a motion which has been seconded and I hope that other members will will agree that erm we can pass this on to the Chief Executive who obviously will be doing this in any case , but it would give er a a an added er measure if you like er I 'm talking in terms of member involvement in pressing for er a wider look of what has happened after this sad flood has been dealt with . |
| 20 | It is highly unlikely that you will be doing this around January but diaries are available from many stores at most times of the year . |