Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [v-ing] [noun sg] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I will stick around only as long as I am doing justice to myself and the team . |
| 2 | three brass things , no it should n't be seen really , so I do n't know whether I 'm drawing attention to it by putting brass things |
| 3 | I just wish I did n't feel I was playing albatross to your Ancient Mariner . ’ |
| 4 | A melon I was giving birth to it . |
| 5 | I was giving tea to my opponent who , though the same weight , was probably two years older , when I was sent for by Julian Hall , my fag master . |
| 6 | I was paying attention to everything in the airplane . |
| 7 | And er you know he was I mean for instance at Salisbury Park he probably did n't mean anything but on Saturday when I was saying goodbye to him he said now I hope there 'll be somebody here at ten past ten to open this church tomorrow . |
| 8 | If you are sending information to us on a monthly basis , please ensure completed forms are returned by the first day of the month preceding the event ( eg for events taking place in November , information should reach the editor by 1 October ) . |
| 9 | If you are divided among yourselves you are doing harm to your country . |
| 10 | That means that it 's practically impossible for a landowner to enforce restrictions unless you 're setting fire to his house or driving a JCB over his grouse moor . |
| 11 | ‘ So you 're adding forgery to your many other dubious talents . ’ |
| 12 | There 's a certain look you have when you 're making love to me that shares my anticipation and surprise . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're making love to me . ’ |
| 14 | A simple X-ray spotted an inch-long needle left in the 56-year-old mum 's bottom when she was giving birth to her daughter , Jane , in Rotherham , Yorks . |
| 15 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 16 | The butler was arguing with a tall fair man , threatening to send for the footmen to turn him away physically if he persisted in demanding to see the person who was refusing access to everyone , and particularly to anyone answering to the name of Cochrane . |
| 17 | They 're pushing stuff to you . |
| 18 | They were showing loyalty to their boss by drinking there . |
| 19 | He smiled at her and said , ‘ Buenos dias , señorita , ’ as blithely as if he were bringing breakfast to her room in a Costa del Sol hotel . |
| 20 | The best form of government , he maintained , is one that is dying , because this means it 's giving way to something else . |
| 21 | Well no but you , it , it , it 's quite a heavy belt and if it , if it 's holding , if it 's giving point to it . |
| 22 | He is saying goodbye to what is past and irretrievably lost . |
| 23 | Oh , God , his girlfriend had actually been in the house while he was making love to her . |
| 24 | ‘ He was making love to my foot , ’ explained Lili . |
| 25 | She felt as if he was paying homage to their love , his every caress a thanksgiving , and for once the wildness left them alone so their loving was a thing of tenderness and healing , of joy and celebration . |
| 26 | Hardly anyone was paying attention to him , though the voice booming out in ‘ received upper class ’ English pronunciation had a soothing and hypnotic effect . |
| 27 | It does mean , however , that we must consider human beings as conceptualising animals , reflecting on what is taking place to them and , furthermore , doing something about it . |