Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I think is happening is that a big shoal has moved into the swim ; a very hungry shoal of bream that behave very much like chickens . |
| 2 | What I 've been thinking is that as the walls of this cellar ( and the outer one ) are stones — not stone then behind the stones there must be earth . |
| 3 | Well what I 've been using is Vick and it seems to be burning . |
| 4 | yes , I was supposed to be going the morning well up until ten o'clock off , to go and see the assembly because er the lady I 've been replacing is back , so that means we have somebody spare around , but we 've got two people off this week |
| 5 | What I 've been doing is changing the bottom three one day and then the high ones the next ; I never change them all at once because , even though you stretch them in , it still seems the bridge gets unstable . ’ |
| 6 | All I 've been doing is well , I 've been training , scales and arpeggios . |
| 7 | As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format . |
| 8 | The officer I have been escorting is a most pleasant chap , and I have really had a day 's holiday . |
| 9 | ‘ I repeat , the woman I have been loving is not you . ’ |
| 10 | The paper I have been using is 140 lb Bockingford , is there a better paper to use ? |
| 11 | There will always be , I realize , those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile . |
| 12 | All I have been saying is the things which are n't Kathy 's |
| 13 | Right now all these things which you 've been saying are all written down |
| 14 | Horizontal and vertical number lines like the ones you have been using are put together to describe or plot positions on a graph . |
| 15 | Erm another s source of energy we 've been considering is th is , is a tidal barrage across the Severn and erm you probably recognize this as a , as a map of the Severn Estuary er er and if you did n't it says the Severn Estuary in big letters er across the er the bottom |
| 16 | The other source of energy we 've been considering is wind power . |
| 17 | But at times it 's been hard to ignore that sinking feeling that what we 've been witnessing is another case of gradual rock'n'roll suicide , that what we 're about to experience is the possible self-destruction of not just one individual but a whole band . |
| 18 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 19 | The campaigns that we have been conducting are moving in that direction because special constables have a particularly valuable part to play . |
| 20 | The counter-evidence that we have been considering is , in a sense , defined away . |
| 21 | The comrades we have been teaching are very pleasant , but a bit more reticent than elsewhere — the people at Peking and Sian got round to calling us by our first names , but here it 's ‘ miss ’ and ‘ Professor ’ ( or , to give my name in Chinese ) . |
| 22 | The strange invariant set that we have been discussing is very similar to Smale 's horseshoe example , introduced in his seminal ( 1967 ) paper . |
| 23 | Observe that the sorts of inferences we have been discussing are not sanctioned by the form of language used . |
| 24 | Perhaps the mistake we have been making is in applying that thinking to the Moslems but not to the Copts . ’ |
| 25 | What they 've been saying is that some authorities might have experiments in the cabinet arrangement we 're not advising to go down that road because and on which point we do n't agree with that type of of government . |
| 26 | In general , most people reckon that the cost of credit they have been using is more or less as they had planned . |
| 27 | ‘ The message they have been giving is totally irresponsible , ’ he said . |