Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [pron] be [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's an art to tackling and it 's nothing to do with the elbows in faces , eye-poking , testicle-grabbing and raking opponents down their Achilles tendons that he talks about . |
| 2 | You can touch 70 on the straight , the adrenalin 's still going and there are plenty of bones you can break at that speed . |
| 3 | That confidence is lacking and there is nothing — except Sir John Wheeler 's unwise comment about the IRA 's defeat — to suggest that it can be restored . |
| 4 | Do not set your goals too high or else you will always be failing and there is nothing more demoralising . |
| 5 | … Nobody bothered about what you were doing and there was nothing to stop you getting on your feet and denouncing the whole of the British Empire ’ ( pp. 48 — 9 ) . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 9 | He started chatting and there was nobody else on the bus and I said to him what are they ? |
| 10 | That was why it had been such a shock when the neighbours came round to tell Lily the baby was screaming and there was nobody answering the door or any lights on in the house . |