Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who have a cold or flu are doubting whether they have had enough time to get over the illness , even if it did strike last November . |
| 2 | Following the success of Tracy Edwards and her Maiden crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race , women involved in yachting are realising that they have a great chance to attain their sailing goals . |
| 3 | He recognises that they are boasting when they talk . |
| 4 | Union leaders of the largest union in the Fox F M area are warning that they have n't ruled out the possibility of taking strike action in pursuit of their pay claim . |
| 5 | read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns . |
| 6 | You 're suggesting that they 've been disorganized ? |
| 7 | those are the people who need to adjust what , how they 're living and they do n't . |
| 8 | They 're lying if they say they do n't . |
| 9 | You often see people looking at you and you know that they 're wondering if they know you . |
| 10 | So you not it it 's do you say , you 're not actually against , you do n't mind er you you would n't mind them doing what they 're doing if they did it away from here . |
| 11 | According to their ever-so convincing press release ‘ They know what they 're doing and they use loops , breaks and samples the way other people breathe . |
| 12 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 13 | Well you do know th th that you 're saying that they want to make a particular point strongly and er that that might involve erm an elephant in of bad taste in order to make it striking and to make people look at it and think about it . |
| 14 | They just do n't know how they 're surviving but they keep going on ! |
| 15 | You 're talking , you 're talking , you 're talking and they go , they go , yeah , and it just goes , it goes , a mouth ! just goes wisht in your mouth . |
| 16 | And they 're touring after they 've |
| 17 | If they 're whingeing because they have n't got quite the times they hoped for , then let them complain into your shell-like ear for a change . |
| 18 | We are waiting until they crash land and that is no good . ’ |
| 19 | But some Thais are wondering whether they have gone about things in the right way . |
| 20 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
| 21 | When the whistle is blown again , the leader gives instructions such as ‘ hop ’ , ‘ walk backwards ’ , ‘ jump with two feet together ’ , ‘ run slowly ’ or ‘ walk again' until the leader eventually says ‘ Bus stop ’ when all the children must continue the way they are going until they reach the entrance to the bus when they go and sit down . |
| 22 | THE auction of LFA sheep quota by Lawrie & Symington at Lanark last week has confirmed most expectations of market prices but Ministry of Agriculture specialists have given warning that farmers are gambling if they trade before the transfer rules are confirmed some time next month . |
| 23 | Already , third-world countries such as India are complaining that they face tougher loan conditions than Russia . |
| 24 | and people in Southwold are objecting because they say |
| 25 | According to Bernard Asbell , author of The Book Of You , wedded couples do n't feel the need to look into each other 's eyes when they are speaking because they feel at ease with each other . |
| 26 | ‘ Many people are reporting that they have changed their eating habits . |
| 27 | and , I am saying that they have n't got the lease |
| 28 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 29 | Scientists , he said , must explain to the public what they are doing if they want to receive continued support . |
| 30 | A learning technique in which individuals perform a series of sequential actions and say what they are doing as they perform each action . |