Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] be [v-ing] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe I should be asking what 's so extra important about it to you . ’ |
| 2 | One of the questions you may be asking yourself is ‘ Can I be taught to act ? ’ |
| 3 | Now , sit down , pen down please , you want to listen , now to do this , no fidgeting pens should be down and you should be concentrating there are going to be three pieces of writing done by people your age and a bit older , that you are going to listen to . |
| 4 | ‘ Next you 'll be hearing he was bit by a cockroach . |
| 5 | You 'll be getting what is it in , they ca n't open now they 've lost the er , they 've lost some of er , they 've lost some sort of . |
| 6 | I says , then she gets you back , I says , and now she 'll be thinking you 're never gon na come down and see her , and this , that , other ! |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm jus ' worried yer might be wishin' it was Tommy Allen yer married instead o' me , ’ he said quietly . |
| 8 | Display material , advertisements and so on need the extra quality and , if these are the products which you will be producing it is important to ensure that you can move between the systems without having to change the data . |
| 9 | ‘ The next thing you will be telling me is that the moon is made of green cheese , ’ Blake snarled . |
| 10 | It 's proper that we should be asking in the context of these proposals for boundary changes , affected as they are by the decision of the er first of all the French national assembly and now the French government to make life difficult for the other member states as far as the ratification of these proposals are concerned , it 's right that we should be asking what is the position of the British government in relation to these matters . |
| 11 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 12 | A little while ago children were expected to be down in the mines and underneath textile machinery , so they were n't actually treated as children , they were erm wager earners at a very low age , as soon as they could be walking they were doing a job , so I feel that we 're all children in fact , there is no great division between being a child and being an adult , and we in fact ca n't always cope with what 's happening and the shocks infect . |
| 13 | They would be saying she was mad and her behaviour beyond their understanding . |
| 14 | They do not know that , for once , they will be eating what is almost a peasant dish . |
| 15 | That price is too high and it may be destroying what is left of the game . |
| 16 | ‘ When a board decides to invite somebody to be a non-executive director , one of the questions it should be asking itself is : ‘ What value will this person add to the board ? ’ |