Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [is] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What you 're suggesting is degrading to me . |
| 2 | I 'm here , the money you 're paying is going to the Treasury , not to your son ? |
| 3 | It wo n't be very good for the petrol companies that I 've been visiting here today , but every cloud tends to have it 's silver lining , and I , I think I can say with some confidence that the last factor that we 're considering is pouring over the revenues and wondering how much is coming in , that , that really has n't much come into it . |
| 4 | and what we 're doing is collecting like the |
| 5 | All you 're doing is putting off the evil hour . ’ |
| 6 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
| 7 | for that , I mean , all you 're doing is going on a ferry |
| 8 | Cos what we 're doing is going for each N tuple we go through each set of states here . |
| 9 | All they 're doing is asking for something to eat , but it can be quite painful |
| 10 | Head : ‘ Much of what we 're discussing is going round the roundabout for the second time . |
| 11 | They continually threaten , nudge and jostle each other ; what they are doing is competing for rank . |
| 12 | They 're competing for access to male pouches , what mammalian males are doing is competing for access to female uteruses because it 's only in a female uterus that an offspring can develop if you 're a mammal . |
| 13 | The prince said there was a lack of strategic thinking to tackle the problems and he added : ‘ I think what we are doing is tinkering with the problem , which is a structural one . |
| 14 | ‘ How can you stand there talking about bits of paper and profits and money … money , ’ she made the word into an excrescence , ‘ when what you are doing is playing with a human soul . |
| 15 | So you mean everything I 'm saying is going on tape ? |