Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're listening as you approach the bathroom door . |
| 2 | I just hope they 're chanting when we win the Championship . |
| 3 | Yeah , you 're told you 're going and we spend the first day overcoming barriers to the fact that they do n't know why they 're there , they 've just been sent and it 'll be good for you , you know this sort of stuff . |
| 4 | We 're asking that you test the temperature of your politicians that offer themselves up to stand on the councils , and we believe that being a good environmentalist aids all of their political life and er saving the environment now will save money in the future . |
| 5 | ‘ And you 're forgetting that she has the use of them during the period of her life , ’ he retorted crisply . |
| 6 | When the whistle is blown again , the leader gives instructions such as ‘ hop ’ , ‘ walk backwards ’ , ‘ jump with two feet together ’ , ‘ run slowly ’ or ‘ walk again' until the leader eventually says ‘ Bus stop ’ when all the children must continue the way they are going until they reach the entrance to the bus when they go and sit down . |
| 7 | OPHELIA has been sewing and she holds the garment . |
| 8 | If you are asking whether I feel the same about her , the answer is no . |
| 9 | This time , they will not dream that we are coming until they hear the trumpet and see us marching upon them . |
| 10 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |
| 11 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 12 | Are there any problems that may be looming on the horizon that perhaps you ought to be addressing before they reach the door ? |
| 13 | I never have it 's mine actually I told them they have to be very careful , I 'm wondering if they put the right size in , excuse me can you go right out the way |
| 14 | Encore Computer Corp must be wondering whether it did the right thing in selling the Annex server product line to Xylogics Inc . |
| 15 | I wish to say a few words about what measures we would be considering if we had the misfortune to have a Labour Government . |
| 16 | This sems to be saying that what destroys the Goddess is the Goddess . |
| 17 | What he ca n't be saying if he understands the system is , " 1 want to vote effectively both for my first-preference candidate and for my second or any lower preference " . |
| 18 | I do n't mean art should be as clear as the instructions on a packet of seeds ; I 'm saying that you trust the mystifier more if you know he 's deliberately choosing not to be lucid . |
| 19 | Yeah but what I 'm saying when we got the thermal boxes you put the stuff in this big fridge er in here |
| 20 | So he s , I said to him is it alright , says am I in danger of coasting if I 've got my foot on the if , if I 'm taking the corner in first and I 'm slipping and I got the clutch , I 'm using the engine but I 've , not much |
| 21 | He is under contract to us and he wo n't be leaving until we get the price we want . ’ |
| 22 | But I 'm hoping that I get the highest |
| 23 | Erm the crunch will come in in a year we should You see I 'm hoping that I mean the favours are important . |
| 24 | Colleagues , perhaps I could explain to you , er , how we 're gon na deal with the rest of the programme , certainly in the , the next hour or so er , I 'm proposing that we take the special report , Health , Safety and the Environment Service Review be asking Nigel to move the report to be seconded by Fred from the central executive council we 'll then invite speakers from all the regions and then we 'll put the report to the vote . |
| 25 | It is not really surprising that animal diseases are increasing when we consider the Government 's deliberate run-down of their veterinary service . |
| 26 | Outside , the rain which had been falling when they entered the building seemed to have eased . |
| 27 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |
| 28 | Stella 's hands were trembling as she held the torch . |
| 29 | I told Cowslip we were going before I left the burrow . " |
| 30 | As they were milling about in front of the camera , Rosie said to her husband , ‘ Just think — at breakfast-time you were saying when we opened the shop , we probably would n't have any customers at all , and here they are , queueing up to have their pictures taken . ’ |