Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] we [am/are] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's all we we do and and interfering cos we 're not . |
| 2 | It is no good complaining about militants running everything if we have not spotted what is happening because we 're so busy doing it the way ‘ we always do ’ . |
| 3 | You 're heartlessly manipulating your mother into believing that we 're about to embark on a long and happy marriage , and you 're doing it by manipulating me . |
| 4 | Remembering that we are here dealing with a community first to exile and then returned to an impoverished and divided land ( i.e. |
| 5 | The little dove huddles in her blanket , and , though Rainbow puts the heat on full , does not stop shivering until we 're somewhere in the depths of Essex , in the fast lane of the M25 . |
| 6 | And so we find that , apart from its use with predicate qualifiers , keep can also figure as the verb in an adverbal response to the question What … do to … ? ; as in : ( 36 ) what did the President do to the rebels ? he kept them incarcerated in Castellòn till 1835 Notice the inappropriate relationship of the question with how ? in this case , confirming that we are not dealing here with a predicate qualifier : ( 37 ) how did the President keep the rebels ? |
| 7 | This must be not only encouraging but also perturbing as we are only able to accept a small number for tuition . |
| 8 | All of the top clubs have been faltering and we 're quite happy to creep up on them . |
| 9 | Dick Lindsell sums up a notable achievement in this way : ‘ C&P having been conveived and put into motion by ICI in a move which some saw as defensive , I believe that we are now increasingly demonstrating that we are as attractive as other ICI businesses . |
| 10 | And erm you know er sometimes I 'm sorry that it 's come to this because like this family er they made a bomb out of it we 're not saying that we 're not denying them that at all . |
| 11 | And they 're saying They are saying that we 're only ones they get pallets like that from . |
| 12 | Nor did he go to the Rousseau extreme , saying that we 're basically noble savages . |
| 13 | But is there not a case for saying that we are currently witnessing the historic counter attack of Christian Democracy , which has summoned up the traditions of Eastern Europe to redress the balance of the West ? |
| 14 | Still learning and we 're still better than them you know what I mean ? |
| 15 | Well we 're not stopping but we 're not going anywhere . |
| 16 | Most of the time we 're either sitting outside the head 's office or we are either fighting or we are either arguing with them . |
| 17 | First , Wittgenstein sees this sort of foundationalist as a form of sceptic , who admits the difficulty of showing that we are ever justified in believing that other persons exist . |
| 18 | However , that process is continually evolving and we are always looking for suggestions to aid its development . |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't want to start crowing because we 're not up there yet , but if we keep on like this I believe this side can make a challenge . ’ |
| 20 | When God 's word on some matter comes to us in repeated form in different ways , it is worth reflecting whether we are really attending to the influence it is intended to have upon our beliefs and behaviour . |
| 21 | But looking at the whole thing from a higher perspective , it seems to me that the Leeds management may be thinking that we are not going to win the championship this season or at least they are prepared to wait another year to have a go . |
| 22 | And we are discovering that we are not interested in exploring the finer points of alienation with tea cuppery , but that the theatre can be a bridge of bone between sickness and health — that our language will somehow always be on the edge of poetry and that image and metaphor are our natural tools — they best express whole worlds and histories in collision with each other . |
| 23 | We should know something about the periodicity of the variables we are monitoring if we are not to risk either unnecessarily detailed data collection or aliasing of trends ; |
| 24 | ‘ He 'll entertain a whole load of people watching while we 're out on location but he can turn it on and off like a light — the cameras roll and he 's totally into Grant Mitchell . |