Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing I want is to impale this dancing , living creature upon the stake of meaning . |
| 2 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 3 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 4 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 5 | Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one . |
| 6 | I 've been taking this pain under my armpit and it 's kind of under back . |
| 7 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 8 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 9 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 10 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 11 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 12 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 13 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been working this way for 18 months now and I 'm really happy with how it 's going . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
| 16 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah but we 've done some Your saying we 've got ta do something about Christmas that 's all I 've been doing this week ! |
| 18 | It 's wandered to every lass in Mull and Morvern while I 've been carrying this babe for you ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been hosting this party tonight . |
| 20 | The period during which I have been writing this chapter has seen one of the worst staffing levels ever at the women 's flat . |
| 21 | I have been considering this matter for nearly two years , but my mind moves slowly ; I dislike publicity , and I had hoped that somebody else might lead the way . |
| 22 | ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that . |
| 23 | Firstly , I have been buying this magazine on and off since the first time that Elite ( by Firebird ) was reviewed . |
| 24 | I say that with some feeling because , in the three years , that I have been doing this job I have not heard so many well-qualified solicitors and barristers , people from the legal community and inquests and from pressure groups say that there are areas of deep concern . |
| 25 | I have been advised this week that out of 18 UK applications for this section of the Human Capital and Mobility Programme only three succeeded . |
| 26 | Is the Minister aware that I have been asking this question , mostly of him , for the past 13 years and that that reply reflects how serious is youth unemployment in Scotland ? |
| 27 | Well , I have been following this mailing list and have yet to post a message , but am sad to see that it is under these circumstances that I post my first … |
| 28 | She has been appointed this season after the Wordsworth Trust staged a six-day exhibition in Osaka last year . |
| 29 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 30 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |