Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 2 | The Citizen 's Advice Bureau has got a pro forma which if a person goes in and says I think I ought to be getting , I think I , I do n't think I 'm getting sufficient income support or I 'm going to apply for income support . |
| 3 | Now if I were to suggest to you that in some gay bars the ‘ lads ’ pop off to the toilets that number of times to indulge themselves , then you might think I was repeating lurid propaganda put about by the puritan league . |
| 4 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 5 | ‘ Has someone been spreading malicious gossip ? ’ he asked innocently , and reached for her hand . |
| 6 | Do n't you know you 're using that boy like bait to catch a fish ? |
| 7 | Needless to say she has to take life as quietly as possible for some time if she is to regain her health and everyone will be pleased to know she is making good progress along these lines . |
| 8 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 9 | ‘ I expect she 's looking round t'stock . ’ |
| 10 | Medics are keeping her under intensive care but say she is making satisfactory progress . |
| 11 | By putting them through the assessment and certification process we are demonstrating that confidence , as well as showing our commitment to quality assurance . |
| 12 | Has it been going this lesson ? |
| 13 | Serbs found it was carrying more ammunition than was listed on the manifest , a Bosnian Serb officer said . |
| 14 | Please God let me be doing real work . |
| 15 | Steve keeps saying he were he says I 'm having that tape recorder , I says you 're not she 's coming to take it back . |
| 16 | He says I 'm coming New Year 's Day , alright , he went down and he shut it , cos I went in the shop and I says er hang on I thought you was open New Year 's Day ? |
| 17 | And I only hope you 're bringing some money with you . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't envy you your job , Mr Milton , but I hope you 're having some fun out of ffeatherstonehaugh 's . |
| 19 | A lot of those promoting the policies really believed in them , believed they were doing positive work . |
| 20 | And they looked like that and I says , what , I says , they 've caused these men to earn all this money I says they 're earning more money than and that 's all you 're gon na offer me ? |
| 21 | Mr Dobbs said : ‘ As far as I am aware the BBC want to do the sequel , and even as I speak they are discussing potential script writers . ’ |
| 22 | Now his father says he 's taking legal action against the hospital . |
| 23 | A divorced father says he 's facing financial ruin after his maintenance payments for his children were increased from five pence a year to almost three and a half thousand pounds a year . |
| 24 | He 's called the house a couple of times and he says he 's coming this way . |
| 25 | FOOD giants Sainsbury 's says it is getting widespread support for its plans to build their first store in Gwynedd . |
| 26 | listen he 's playing happy birthday . |
| 27 | He jabbered away to his friends , and Ellie assumed he was explaining that item number one was a drink . |
| 28 | It 's hard enough for him to accept Angy 's shabby treatment of Rick , her lies about the ring and her deceit in letting him think she was carrying another man 's child . |
| 29 | Like , what the hell did you think you were doing last night ? |
| 30 | Six look I 'm learning this stuff . |