Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [pron] [am/are] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not milling about , I 'm not lurking and I 'm not amassing , ’ Otley said vehemently as Nigel pleaded with him yet again . |
| 2 | it 's a tangent it 's just another thing to be aware of er that certain put their exam but it 's along the same thing cos I know what 's happening and they 're not writing G C S E but they 're writing exam entries so many pupils x number of subjects so many passes okay ? |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never been interested in driving and I 'm not going to start now , ’ said Liz , who works at Courtaulds Electrical Insulation at Runcorn in the UK . |
| 4 | One of the great things about watching a good comedy show or film is that people around you start laughing and you are much more likely to join in . |
| 5 | ‘ They say that pain is good for writing and I 'm not sure about that , but I guess my trouble is I do n't know how to keep a distance . |
| 6 | Erm again , this is why er er jogging at th at this point became so er popular if you remember everyb er a little while , few years ago everybody was rushing out jogging and there are still people who are doing it . |
| 7 | Councillor and Councillor mentioned testing and they 're dead right , I oppose it , it 's an irrelevance , a complete distraction . |
| 8 | Personally , I just get the feel going and I 'm out of here ! |
| 9 | All of the top clubs have been faltering and we 're quite happy to creep up on them . |
| 10 | I think that we have a very butch attitude , I think the government has a very butch attitude quite honestly , er to , you know , you 've got to er stand up there and help yourself , and I suppose I 'm all for that , but you 've got to have something to help yourself with , and I think that 's where we ought to be aiming and I 'm very glad that the world 's leaders are heading straight in that direction . . |
| 11 | Now that seems to me , that might induce er slightly might do , but I could I I think that , wha I what I thought you were saying was different from what you ended up saying and I 'm not sure which |
| 12 | Credit cards are particularly useful when travelling and there are often insurance benefits if you pay for your travel through them . |
| 13 | Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants . |
| 14 | Well that , that 's what I 'm saying is that , I think what we have to start doing and I 'm not suggesting you 're not doing , but I just want to talk about this in , before we practically kick off on the course proper , I think what , I mean that comes off , and then the oil starts dripping out of it , and the minute the oil starts dripping out , then we become quite a good artist are n't we ? |
| 15 | Still learning and we 're still better than them you know what I mean ? |
| 16 | You just sit there thinking you 're taping and you 're not . |
| 17 | However , that process is continually evolving and we are always looking for suggestions to aid its development . |
| 18 | Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem . |
| 19 | I mean you ca n't do that there is no correlation between you ca n't say that all the activists are extroverts cos are actually quite about the way they but they do like to have a go and it does n't say all the reflectors cos they 're sitting back and thinking and they 're actually quiet reflectors . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've found a place you like , you 've found people you like … you 're working and you 're not even paying any tax . |
| 21 | You 're working and you 're not bugging anyone and you turn yourself in — they do n't come and pick you off the street — and still they do this . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Well that 's just you dreaming and I 'm not going to argue with you . |
| 23 | It is the power to apply punishments as well as the power to control any discussion of rights and wrongs , the power to say ‘ that 's just you dreaming and I 'm not going to argue with you ’ . |