Example sentences of "[adv] we be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , for example , if we wished to know how much we are spending on orthopaedic surgery , the departmental analysis of expenditure will not tell us .
2 Apparently we are going to be busy tonight .
3 Basically we 're looking for a we 're looking for another cleaner .
4 ‘ Our material is for anyone who wants to listen , but basically we 're coming from a club scene .
5 Well , no , we are governed by our Annual General Meeting , but it 's not unrealistic to ask for double figures , because basically we were talking in that vein last year , and of course we eventually settled for 8.8 .
6 Er , because obviously they are putting motorists coming in the opposite direction er in er great danger and I feel that before too long we 're gon na have a head on collision er which is going to end up with serious injuries .
7 Before long we were speeding through the night towards Joyce 's Country , County Galway .
8 The journey went on and on — before long we were travelling at a walking pace , and I and the few other passengers were anxiously clearing the condensation from the windows and peering into the murk in an effort to see where we were .
9 We thought we had an enormous pile but unfortunately our fire was not very long lasting and by 6 o'clock we were wandering about looking at the other , more professionally built conflagrations .
10 At 8am we were passing through Jericho as the local children were heading for school and we came under attack from youths throwing large stones .
11 A mosquito probably registers about ten or twenty decibels , and this could be very annoying if you were trying to sleep and one was buzzing around you , but in our trade we 're normally talking about a level of perhaps sixty or seventy decibels which is tolerable and the sort of noise perhaps we 're making at the moment .
12 Perhaps we 're talking about it .
13 But perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction .
14 Ultimately perhaps we are moving towards the concept of a single , personal , palmtop information centre , part electronic book , part computer , part global communications centre .
15 Perhaps we are reaching for object-oriented technology as our great-grandparents used to reach for the ‘ cure-all ’ medicines sold by the travelling salesmen of the 19th century .
16 Perhaps we are emerging from the Dark Ages of Community Care and we are moving into a new age of enlightenment .
17 Perhaps we were going to and then decided
18 Only we are behaving as if it 's nothing to do with us and that only the West is to blame for the thousands who turn their back on us . ’
19 We 'd be back this weekend only we 're staying with Kate 's parents in Sussex . ’
20 Right well we 're only we 're looking at four different types so if I ask you which one
21 What about the day she collapsed in the the hairdressers and only we 're going for a drink .
22 So we 're looking for the good , the average , and the unexceptional as well . ’
23 But So we 're looking for a nice balance between clutch and throttle , that you 're not being jerked and the not clutch is not bloody flying every time that you take let your foot to engage a gear .
24 So we 're looking for ah we 've found Mary , last seen in nineteen forty eight at Oadby .
25 So we 're looking for North Yorkshire to play to the same rules basically .
26 So we 're looking for two additional representatives on this parish council to be our nominees on the management committee , and the management committee will present us with proposals to buy the ground in due course .
27 Erm Steve and Mark and I are definitely interested so that 's three people so we 're looking for another three people to share .
28 So we 're looking for the ideal candidate .
29 So we 're looking for Lilian Parsons , not Elaine Webb ? ’
30 So reading lamp , toothbrush and three marks so we 're looking for three of them .
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