Example sentences of "we [vb base] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing we want is teaching by numbers , reducing learning to a series of mechanistic measured units . |
| 2 | What we want is fighting talk , and fighting spirit , I want Macca to prove me wrong that he is not a big girl 's blouse . |
| 3 | If we say are providing a band for dancing , we are liable if they let us down . |
| 4 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 5 | But we know are going on to double shift on Monday |
| 6 | Now the maximum number of engines you you 're going to have we know is going to be twenty five . |
| 7 | We therefore have to be in a position to share the dreams and the understandings of those people who we believe are making the running for tomorrow , wherever they may be . |
| 8 | So , in order to avoid what we believe is hurting others , we end up hurting ourselves , with the final result that because we can not do what we want , we grow bitter and resentful . |
| 9 | The market place in which we operate is changing rapidly . |
| 10 | But spend what we feel is gon na make the club |
| 11 | I would guess that we all occasionally promise ourselves some lessons , in deference to the particular brick wall we feel is impeding our progress at any given time . |
| 12 | Ive been saying recently we needed his inspiration to drag some wins out of the draws we ve been getting . |
| 13 | And what I suggest we do is seeing Georgina 's here we send you through to see Georgina and she can , if she 's got time , we can briefly run through one or two types . |
| 14 | Even less radical , if I 'm to stand by the comments I made last month ) ; or something that we think is missing from current trends ( something a bit retro maybe , but where 's your originality ? ) . |
| 15 | that is , that is what , that is what exists to do , or one of the things that exists to do as the U K sales company our business is to give the projections for a particular piece of business , and if we see any other similar bits of business around it that 's fine , that 's , that needs to be added to it , but to give our vision of that particular piece of business , feed that into the marketing people in , and say , look , this is the situation if we go this way , this is what we think is going to happen , if we do this , this is going to happen , if we do n't do this , this is what 's going to happen , so that that can be fed into an overall picture , and they will come back , I presume , and say , right , we now have enough information to know that it 's going to be worth =vesting , investing in production of sixteen double O fours in er Peter . |
| 16 | ‘ What we think is happening , ’ he explained quietly and unemotionally , ‘ is that the placenta which carries the blood supply to your baby is beginning to detach itself and break up . |
| 17 | If you 're going to think what happens , goes down under , now then we 've got to decide what we think 's gon na happen before it happens . |
| 18 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 19 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 20 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 21 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 22 | To help ourselves we have not ignored the nostalgia trend , however , for we 've been glancing back at nineteen eighty two to guess what we think will be the most significant arts ideas for nineteen eighty three . |
| 23 | We 've been picking up some bad vibes on that guy . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets . |
| 25 | well you know we 've been reading stories , little ones , that was only two I could find but there were n't any stories |
| 26 | Well , in this passage that we 've been reading , we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death . |
| 27 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 28 | In other words , we 've been funding from within our own budget new developments that 'll come on stream next year and it 's a very complicated budget and it contains some quite erm controversial erm subjects , which no doubt we 'll go through in a minute , but overall erm , given the total financial situation , I 'm a relieved man today . |
| 29 | We 've been lending money to individuals for over 50 years so we 're certainly experienced in keeping our customers satisfied . |
| 30 | We 've been ploughing all over the grass ! |