Example sentences of "[v-ing] they [am/are] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I see nothing in the current Bradford U D P which suggests that they are n't erm majoring on urban regeneration , that they 're doing they 're doing exactly that . |
| 2 | I mean they , they both firmly saying they 're coming back on a full time basis , |
| 3 | BR has always defended the half barriers as ‘ perfectly ’ safe , claiming they are lowered automatically before trains approached giving drivers plenty of time to cross . |
| 4 | They 're finding er as business becomes more competitive , targets are harder to meet and they 're finding they 're becoming more reluctant to stay out — to get away from the office , to take time off . |
| 5 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 6 | Here are some examples : they can see in the dark they can never ever tell a lie when they are with other people they know what they are thinking they are living backwards in time — they were born in the future and so instead of getting older , they get younger . |
| 7 | You can not put that together with Halloween which basically is people going out thinking they 're going out to have fun and they 're having a bit of a laugh and everything else where 's there 's their underlying er connection with the devil . |