Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [pron] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 2 | Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it . |
| 3 | I just like , I just like , I know places , like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday , I did n't know what road I was going on I was just telling like , people names of the pubs and luckily this , like , bloke behind me getting on the bus , said oh you need a like , a seventy P or something and that 's when I knew where I was going and everyone 's like telling me where to get off , everyone gestures to me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's happening now , it 's always progressing and it 's always going on and you 're never going to reach an end point , you 're never going to reach a final point , whereas with something like history , I find it 's interesting , but you 're always going over and analysing what 's happened , it 's that much more backward looking , whereas science applied has got more constructive . |
| 6 | ‘ The IRA are sure that somebody in the organisation is talking and it 's really put the wind up some people . |
| 7 | New uses for aspirin keep emerging and it 's now thought to help prevent heart attacks , strokes , arthritis and even some forms of cancer . |