Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] and [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1	It is very important to keep on happy and good terms with the family that are living and it is extremely sad when the death of a parent who loved all the children should be an unwitting source of family rifts .
2	A car picks them up from wherever they 're staying and there 's usually a phone , so they can ring us up if they get stuck in traffic jams , or if there is a last-minute change of plan .
3	Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants .
4	You just sit there thinking you 're taping and you 're not .
5	I would have thought that was a more likely erm But er we 're obviously we 're speculating and it 's perhaps
6	‘ You 've found a place you like , you 've found people you like … you 're working and you 're not even paying any tax .
7	You 're working and you 're not bugging anyone and you turn yourself in — they do n't come and pick you off the street — and still they do this . ’
8	I am waiting and it is not a time for you to be chatting .
9	I get the impression he agrees with what I 'm saying and he 's just shaking his head at the sheer extent of human deviousness and spite .
10	Massive chunks of history are missing and it is really not possible to understand the Abstract Expressionists without reference to how they incorporated or reacted against those earlier tendencies .
11	The exception is important as it avoids having to repeat descriptions on the plant schedule and makes clear what we are covering and what is not covered .

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