Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [pron] [am/are] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came here to work and you are stopping me doing that . ’ |
| 2 | Above all , is a fun place to work and I 'm looking forward to the challenges of the future . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 5 | There 's further to go and we 're gon na keep saying these things until we 're blue in the face , as well as |
| 6 | Only days to go and you 're sweating ? |
| 7 | I 'm coming to see and you are leaving . |
| 8 | But what I thought if you 're going to leave and you 're going in bed and breakfast , I 've got that sandwich toaster , cos get your breakfast , bed and breakfast right ? |
| 9 | We do accuse the Liberal Democrats of jumping on the bandwagon at a late stage , but in this they are running true to form and they are confusing the issue by doing their own irrelevant thing . |
| 10 | Children are found in need of care , protection and control if the court establishes that they are not receiving the sort of care a good parent may reasonably be expected to give and they are falling into bad associations , are exposed to moral danger , or the lack of care is likely to cause suffering or seriously affect their health or proper development , or if it establishes that they are beyond the control of their parents . |
| 11 | to do and we 're going to have the opportunity to do it in a slightly interesting way and you failed miserably because you sat and chatted and did n't get any work done . |
| 12 | It 's a bit of a bugger being out there over Christmas but that 's what we 're paid to do and we 're going to do it |
| 13 | And for us to go forward that is the first major thing we need to do and I 'm appealing today that if people can give us two hours on Saturday morning or a Friday afternoon , we need people , we do n't need two people on a street corner cos we 've done it and it is it we do n't get the effect we want , because most people walk past us . |
| 14 | interpretations of his music erm , I , one of the things I would love to do and I 'm hoping to do next year is to do something related to art using a dance |
| 15 | I 'm trying not to cry and I 'm trying not to cough , either , because that might make me cry . |
| 16 | They have n't even begun to live and they 're dying . |
| 17 | We 've flagged up those problems to command and I 'm seeing Mr on Tue Tuesday afternoon I think it is , and Jed 's put a report into command and I 'll put on it as well , and we 're saying to them what is the answer ? |
| 18 | Problem No. 7 : Still nowhere to knit and I am getting very frustrated . |
| 19 | Yes , you 're , you 're approaching it from er , a similar method to Sue over there , you 're saying how much would I need to , to survive and you 're talking small businessmen really , are n't you ? |
| 20 | Mummy has bought daddy some nice chocolates to eat and we 're going to have a special dinner and then next Saturday Nanna Nanna and Del are coming down to look after you |
| 21 | ‘ The way we conceded goals at Coventry was very hard to take and I 'm looking for us to bounce back as quickly as possible . |