Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The questions our friends were dying to ask were those which the tabloids have trumpeted ever since the case came into the public domain . |
| 2 | But the only one he had found himself wanting to see was this girl . |
| 3 | But what you 're actually going to find is that what they 've divorced themselves from is the assistance and the technical help that comes from the County Council , and whilst you may have your teachers trained up to a certain point you therefore have at that particular time you you have them fully trained , and then you say oh well I do n't need any training for the next couple of years so I can step back and save on that area . |
| 4 | What I was going to get was another matter again . |
| 5 | At the end of the day that trainee will not get his N V Q and what 's going to happen is that branch managers be penalized if that happens . |
| 6 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
| 7 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 8 | but it is the case that twenty two per cent of crimes are committed by women , erm and I think that the situation with women committing crime is quite complex and complicated one , erm that really needs quite er , a great detail of discussion , and one of the , the points I was going to make was this question of feeling guilty |
| 9 | ‘ What we were beginning to miss was that quality of life that we should have had , ’ he says . |
| 10 | " My dear , what the marquis is trying to say is that young women on their own often have to sell their bodies in order to eat . " |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose what I 'm trying to say is that … |
| 12 | What I 'm trying to say is that yo , i now you got ta order another to , forty six . |
| 13 | yeah , what I 'm trying to say is that , that the Germans , on one German captured about four hundred blokes |
| 14 | but basically what , what , what I 'm trying to say is that erm , you know , it 's nineteen twenty seven , the world depression has n't happened yet erm and he 's assuming that you know , well you , you just said downtrodden masses for thousands of years I 'd say , you know , balls to that |
| 15 | Apart from qualifying for Pseuds Corner in Private Eye and avoiding the use of plain English , what Rumbold was trying to say was that British youth had just discovered trainers in the late Eighties . |
| 16 | The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view . |
| 17 | No , the point I 'm trying to make is this : everyone else around here has changed their name . |