Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unfortunately , our sales manager , Mrs Everard , has contracted this flu bug that 's going round , so you 'll have to put up with me all today — and possibly tomorrow too , if she does n't regain her voice . ’ |
| 2 | I had the odd George II and George III copper , but these were in the minority and it was the 17th century coinage that was popping up with some regularity . |
| 3 | She saw the tension and fear that was putting lines of stress around the other woman 's eyes and mouth and squeezing her hands into tight , pale fists . |
| 4 | I mean , of course , the mid-life change that 's making the woman you love so difficult . |
| 5 | they talk about surface features but I mean that 's gon na be e even more for people to understand . |
| 6 | No I mean that 's gon na that , that that gene 's gon na is gon na |
| 7 | The Thames region supports about 12,000,000 people , er and just the pressures of modern living are adding pressures to the environment , I mean that 's happening all around us . |
| 8 | And if you let's suppose we save save you know , ten managers , I mean that 's going to be a hundred and forty thousand pounds . |
| 9 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |
| 10 | I mean that 's going rusty . |
| 11 | again , I mean that is stretching the bounds the belief a bit far . |
| 12 | in in Porthmadog or on taking on er the the Bishop of Bangor , I mean that was taking on |
| 13 | The capital standards , negotiated through the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) , are a natural scapegoat for the credit squeeze that is deepening the recessions in Britain and America and may provoke one in Japan . |
| 14 | The remarkable quality of the New Hall collection , a voluntary assembly of donated works , and the likewise extraordinary disproportion of successful women artists in the final selection of the New Contemporaries this year seem to me to point to a crucial shift that is happening in symbolic utterance and representation : women 's bodies , women 's nature have long been ‘ good to think with ’ , their flesh has served artists as founts of meaning , allegorical and personal . |
| 15 | I know we still say that is defining levels . |
| 16 | Th this is something that is developing members will be aware of the er proposals for er competition for white collar services and we sh we recharge these costs at the moment historic leases and the central departments are at the moment developing er trading accounts for all these and as we develop that work we we can correct our previous charges so there will be some sort of changes in the way we charge and as I say that 's coming through in these costs committees because it 's it 's shifting money around between different committees so we shifted the budget at the same time . |
| 17 | ‘ The uncertainty and debate that is developing is not helpful to the profession as a whole . ’ |
| 18 | Although the private good is assumed to be reputation from complying with an established custom of membership , it could also be regarded as any other form of excludable union benefit that is increasing in membership . |
| 19 | Congratulations on your grand-parenthood ! ! … hope that is thriving . |
| 20 | I represent , ha , that 's not I hope that 's cheating . |
| 21 | Indeed , the setting up of secondary banking subsidi-aries by the primary banks is indicative ofthe slippage that was occurring . |
| 22 | Listen this is getting too noisy , one person at a time please . |
| 23 | Hope all 's going well ! |
| 24 | Hope all 's going well . |
| 25 | Hope all is going well . |
| 26 | Because many new mums ca n't produce enough expressed milk — or choose not to breastfeed — there 's a real need for donated milk from milk banks , but according to the National Childbirth Trust these are becoming few and far between . |
| 27 | BY 1983 , New Order had three things : a deep desire to break away from the son-of-Joy-Division guitar glaciers with which they 'd become associated , a new-found interest in the electro dance vibe that was filling the UK 's clubs , and a brand new drum machine . |
| 28 | Look this is getting silly . |
| 29 | oh look this is gon na do , this one 's gon na do the splits |
| 30 | Exercises that accomplish this are swimming , short-term jogging ( about half an hour a day ) and skipping . |