Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pron] all " in BNC.
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1 | You need three paint brushes ( you should already have these and be using them all the time ) : a ) Clean brush for cleaning the fluff from the actual machine — around the needles and so on . |
2 | We could be handling it all wrong . |
3 | And his wife Maureen will be cheering him all the way . |
4 | You 'll be meeting them all |
5 | We do n't always want to be testing ourselves all the time , do we ? |
6 | We should not be panicked however into top-down/control solutions , for many of these ‘ new ’ skills which are apparently so daunting at the moment ( reading a financial statement ? ) are easily learnt by intelligent people and in two or three years , at that level , we shall be wondering what all the fuss was about . |
7 | A decade from now we might , as you suggest , be wondering what all the fuss was about . |
8 | You 'll be teaching them all soon . |
9 | You may be getting it all wrong . |
10 | ‘ If you were mad you 'd be calling us all mad . |
11 | Not only have I never been mobbed at Sainsbury 's but I had been assured that the likes of Sheridan Morley and Julia Mackenzie would be giving their all . |
12 | ‘ The people who seem to be giving us all the orders now are the very people who , um , got us into this trouble in the first place ! ’ |
13 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
14 | Anne : They 'll be doing it all again in 12 months time do you think things will be different , will Mr Major still be there ? |
15 | Christopher Robson ( countertenor ) has recently been electrifying audiences with his performances of Arsamenes in Xerxes at the English National Opera , and when he opens his mouth on this recording he may as well be plugging us all into the mains . |
16 | Laurie Mains , the All Black coach , was plainly displeased at Schuler 's decision , for it came about the time that Mains was hoping rugby league scouts might not be chasing his All Blacks in the next few months . |
17 | ‘ If his name is there , he is in mortal danger , and if the French war gets worse , they will be taking them all . ’ |
18 | The squirrels would be collecting them all very soon , Miss Honey said , and storing them away carefully for the bleak months ahead . |
19 | The Mickey Mouse girl would be sweeping it all into the bin , along with any cockroaches she 'd crushed underfoot . |
20 | After all , would he be telling her all this now if this meeting had not been arranged ? |
21 | I do n't think he should really be telling me all this , but he is demob happy and there is something of the anonymity of the confessional in this dimly lit train compartment , lurching slowly over the snowy plateau of the Kola Peninsula . |
22 | ooh , you should n't be telling me all this |
23 | I sha n't be telling you all about these men , but it does give you some idea , the way we were , the chorus , the bit players in this romance which is what I really want to tell you about . |
24 | And I probably should n't be telling you all this if I want to keep your sympathy . |
25 | And Jill Goolden will be telling us all about wines from Alsace . |
26 | ‘ Youse can be at the codding , when youse like , ’ he mumbled thickly , ‘ but if this auld one in here — ’ he tapped the coffin with his glass — ‘ if this fella wants to , I tell ye , he 'll be sittin' up as bright as ye like and be givin' us all the ‘ Lark ’ , just as he was doin' that night when — ‘ |
27 | So that 's why your top ten names really , the no , the people you 'll probably get appointments with , you do n't want to be ringing them all up on Thursday night , otherwise you 'll blow them all . |
28 | Now it 's my time , and he should be backing me all the way . |
29 | ‘ I shall be needing them all for the meeting . ’ |
30 | But a moment later he called from his office , ‘ I wo n't be needing you all the time in Bruges , so pack some comfortable shoes ; you 'll be free to explore a little on your own . ’ |