Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [is] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supermarket 's suppliers Gulf Oil , based in Cheltenham , said it was reacting to a local situation and Tesco says the cut is part of it 's service to customers , denying it 's creating an artificially low price . |
| 2 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is denying it 's seeking an out of court settlement for haemophiliacs infected with the AIDS virus . |
| 3 | It 's easy to look at your child harmlessly pedalling along on his trike without noticing he 's heading towards moving swings . |
| 4 | Billy — big brother of boxing hero Terry Marsh — insists on being called Jilly after announcing he is planning a sex-change . |
| 5 | Party leader John Smith is right to press ahead with his plans to end the official role of the unions in selecting parliamentary candidates , but by allowing open confrontation with the unions to continue simmering he is undermining his good intent . |
| 6 | Miranda is lying on her tummy for she has the bath to herself , and she 's pretending she 's swimming , thinking of it getting dark and Manjiku rising , rising from the deep , tracking her . |
| 7 | She leaves , he believing she is going to the dentist . |
| 8 | because obviously like Kim very soon after revising she 's going out . |
| 9 | We are not pretending it 's taking place today . |
| 10 | She 's going she 's looking at you and you go , come here , you take a step further and she gives you a dirty look and then she waits until you 're that close and then she jumps ! |
| 11 | oh yeah the people , matey 's walking along and he 's going like this and he 's pulling it as he 's doing it , he says and he 's doing it in proper time like that , but with one arm going he 's twiddling it , he 's doing it , he says no my feet are exactly like that , very effective but you can actually get fined for loosing them , you have to pay for them and its like a real , shooting sticks as well , you do n't tend to carry erm , these pay sticks you carry them like the old shooting sticks , the old you know ? |
| 12 | We 're not going he 's bringing his clothes . |
| 13 | and er he goes , aha the bloke hitting his his brother hits him , and the holograph standing behind him and he 's going he 's going , it 's okay , it 's okay , I 've got you , I 've got , like this and you see him fall backwards , straight through the fucking body and he goes sorry I do n't got you ! |
| 14 | He goes well , you know , we erm , well , do n't ask okay , but just do n't touch him , okay , cos he 's dangerous just do n't , anyway the man gets drunk , he 's going he 's going like that he 's excuse me , you 're interrupting my joke . |
| 15 | Cos he , well he 's not quitting he 's taking a break |
| 16 | The Mini sofa has proved the best seller and if demand goes on rising he 's hoping to turn out up to twenty of these off-beat seats a week . |
| 17 | The Mini sofa has proved the best seller and if demand goes on rising he 's hoping to turn out up to twenty of these off-beat seats a week . |
| 18 | Now it is important that you find out about your blood pressure , because again erm if that is , is rising it 's putting your |
| 19 | My next comment about erm concerning it 's getting saving tables and the like we 've actually er agreed accommodation schedule for this year and that 's following fro from some changes in Customer Services o , in July . |
| 20 | good game … who 's he kidding it 's going to be a cracker … what 's the odds I wonder on a Gloucester … |
| 21 | And it , it becomes you 'd never actually get the thing printed and you 'd never actually get the thing distributed because you , you , you 're wondering what to put in , what not to put in as it were and sticking to the specifics er at least it 's getting it 's getting something out and I do n't , personally I do n't see any , any real problem in personalizing it further and as much to indicate , right , without obvious prejudice to the new union erm to indicate er in , in some general or specific sense , if that does n't sound like sort of like contradictory , on on the , the , the betterment of , of representation for members within , within Northumberland come unison . |
| 22 | It 's getting it 's getting it up a bit is n't it ? |
| 23 | But it 's getting it 's getting the image it 's getting |
| 24 | He distinguished the cultural sciences by the fact that their ‘ objects of study ’ are humanly made , that someone observing them is observing processes in which he himself necessarily participates , and that different methods of establishing evidence and interpretations are then inevitable . |
| 25 | Yeah yeah my wife 's always saying she 's going to have her hair cut |
| 26 | In some circumstances , of course , this perception is justified : if you are a boy in Tanzania selling peanuts in the street in order to survive , you may be perfectly correct in your perception that the policeman approaching you is going to blackmail you for not having a street seller 's license , rather than to assist you in making an honest living . |
| 27 | Furthermore , although Ritchie argues that ‘ cruelty to animals is rightly supposed to be an offence against humanitarian feeling ’ ( 1976 : 183 ) , I see no reason for concluding that by so saying he is denying that animals can be wronged , particularly given the wide measure of protection he accords them . |
| 28 | He 's coming out next week and keeps saying he 's going home to Eva . ’ |
| 29 | Shall we shall we count how many times Alex has been in and out of here saying he 's going home ? |
| 30 | I mean what is the point of saying he 's going to better us yet all he 's doing is pointing out these follies . |