Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [pron] be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I mean they 're being e I 've lived here twenty three years , this comes up every three or four years this dog business . |
| 2 | how would you think the weather , I mean we 're being a bit flippant but how will the weather affect the Pisan team ? |
| 3 | has already crapped himself about the visit cause extra work of course but er the er however we should er revert maybe we 'll keep an eye on the schedule and things er but we we need to tie it up tight so we do n't get a cos I mean what 's being said now in the corridors of power is that the schedule is totally sales driven and it 's the sales department that 's put it together , I am only the administrator , I only I d I completely take my orders from the sales department quote unquote in front of everybody at the management meeting . |
| 4 | What is , I mean what is being discussed it seems to me is , is a , is a dilemma that has been debated ever since people became interested in social change , |
| 5 | They carried it away every year , but eh , I mean it 's be in the room it should pick it up . |
| 6 | ‘ I need a solicitor — well Legal Aid — I mean I 'm being done for — you know — interfering with my daughter — incest they call it do n't they ? ’ |
| 7 | Well I , I mean he 's being technical here as well Chairman . |
| 8 | Well you look , oh the other one too , I mean she 's being stupid with her ! |
| 9 | Well my there 's never any please , there 's never any thank you , there 's nothing , I mean there are are n't they , when he was saying that all he 's done for her and they virtually like turned their back on them , he got out in all those winds and weather were n't it , but , we built there and he come out apparently and said I do n't want you having anything else to do with my kids , |
| 10 | I fear you are being taken from you — |
| 11 | Of course , I realise I am being unfair and that they were mostly awfully lonely boys far from home . |
| 12 | ‘ I expect everyone 's being asked if they 're going to do any overthrowing , ’ said Gurder wisely . |
| 13 | I expect I 'm being silly though , Hazel . |
| 14 | Is he gon na I expect he is is n't he ? |
| 15 | As I say we 're being slightly dismissive |
| 16 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 17 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | Let me come quite clean on that and tell you that you , at the very moment I hope you are being recorded . |
| 19 | The childhood messages that we get from our parents and teachers are things like , ‘ Good little girls do n't get angry ’ and ‘ I hope you 're being a good girl today ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I hope you 're being sarcastic — as usual . ’ |
| 21 | I suspect they were being cared for under the Central Methodist hall . |
| 22 | I think Chairman , in a sense , some of the items are sufficiently explicit for people to say well I know what 's being proposed , I can comment on it . |
| 23 | I do n't know who it was , but I know we were being tailed . |
| 24 | Yeah I know they were is that what they were for ? |
| 25 | ‘ I know I am being investigated but it is not something I would like to talk about . ’ |
| 26 | I know I am being stupid and the last thing I want to be is a possessive mother . |
| 27 | ‘ I know I 'm being stupid ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I know I 'm being a coward about this … should tell Sandy myself … ’ |
| 29 | I know I 'm being pessimistic but all I think about is that depressing drive home ! |
| 30 | ‘ I know I 'm being over-sentimental , but there it is . |