Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] and [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He answers , ‘ She is cooking and she is eating . |
| 2 | You 're not sure you know what 's happening and what 's going on . |
| 3 | Denis Smith says he 's always been a Stoke fan and his name always comes into the reckoning when the job is going and he 's made no secret of the fact that he 'd like to manage the club |
| 4 | and Michael is coming , he 's , he 's watching what David 's doing and he 's following suit now and he 's only four . |
| 5 | RSVP — Automatically tract meeting attendees via an RSVP function , indicate who 's coming and who 's declined , as well as a list of who has n't seen the notification yet . |
| 6 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 7 | B. Life in Britain is changing and it is changing more and more quickly . |
| 8 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 9 | ‘ It 's been a fine day , the sun is setting and somebody is telling you your daughter has been murdered . |
| 10 | I get worried when he does things because when he 's working like he 's working and he 's travelling like he 's doing I 'm , he goes Monday morning , he comes back Friday , by the time we 've done our shopping Saturday , he 's , he 's , if we go out Saturday night it 's what , eleven , twelve o'clock or more , it 's gone twelve o'clock usually after he 's gone and he 's back up then . |
| 11 | There was the distorted thud-thud of someone who is n't certain if their microphone is working and who is tapping it experimentally . |
| 12 | • Check that your child 's heart is beating and he is breathing regularly and , if necessary , give artificial respiration ( see Not Breathing ) . |