Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] that [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’
2 I am only suggesting that you take a little time off , shall we say , until you are quite well again ? "
3 We also need Government investment to back up the youth services , teachers and parents so that the next generation of youngsters does not include a minority whose self-discipline , self-esteem and respect for their own future are so lacking that they get kicks from racing stolen cars or lobbing bottles at the police .
4 Their calls are also very intricate , and the sounds of some of them , the young , sexually mature humpback males , are so haunting that they have become a best-selling record .
5 Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives .
6 I am not suggesting that you take this model too seriously .
7 I am not suggesting that you throw extravagant dinner parties every night when I advocate entertaining .
8 I am just saying that we have no other alternative .
9 an awful lot from teachers , you know , we 're just expecting that they know everything about sex education .
10 So all I 'm saying is , if we 're not achieving that we need to go back and look at the way in which we 're operating the fax service , have a chat with erm Phil 's people or Jackie 's peo see if there 's any differences that we can take advantage of .
11 So we 're not proposing that you turn off the mainframe on Friday and turn on your Unix or open systems machines with your database on it on Monday .
12 So we 're not proposing that you turn off the mainframe on Friday and turn on open systems on Monday .
13 you 're not feeling that you 've got lots of little isolated subjects and lots of little isolated topics and it 's all building up and it 's all a lot it is a lot ,
14 We 're not saying that you do n't like that .
15 They 're so bloody thick , they 're always saying that we dress like tramps yeah then why do they wear clothes with holes in them ?
16 So what they 're now saying that you 've got
17 Well , it 's not a positive action that is noted , as we 're actually saying that we 've we 've read it , basically .
18 People are always complaining that they do not have enough work space/dumping space , but it may well be what they really need is better organized storage .
19 Feelings of guilt are really about a sense of unentitlement ; in thinking that your desires and feelings are wrong or ‘ silly ’ you are also saying that you feel you are wrong or silly , and not entitled to be taken seriously , or helped .
20 I 'm not demanding that you succeed , only that you try .
21 What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education .
22 I 'm not suggesting that we chain Peter to Caliban for eighteen hours a day .
23 So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge .
24 I 'm not suggesting that you need to go quite this mad , but one , or perhaps two extra masts do make life so simple and easy .
25 I 'm not asking that it transfer its estate , I 'm asking that it should make a contribution because it will then show that we 're committed to this very important initiative .
26 ‘ I 'm not saying that we pretend it never happened .
27 Now I 'm not saying that we stand here and all we do is that because when you want to emphasise a point then sometimes a a single non-symmetrical a single hand gesture is more appropriate .
28 Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that .
29 Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration .
30 Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit .
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