Example sentences of "[adj] and [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been to the police about this and they are trying to take it further . |
| 2 | I had to retrieve it to write this and they are lining up already for its release . |
| 3 | Me and some others , we run down and were watching this and we 're killing ourselves . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're going to go round to Mackenzie 's house and we 're going to ask his daughter what she thinks of this and we 're going to take pictures of him and we 're going to run our own front page with a picture of him and a bloody great headline which says RACIST ! ’ |
| 5 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 8 | I mean he was just saying this and he was coming out with , you know , stupid words and it was really funny in the lesson , it was brilliant . |
| 9 | I have spoken to Ian Wright extensively about this and he was saying that Hendrix was one of his three musical idols . |
| 10 | D d I 've put I 've not gone too political on this and you 're running me down already I do n't know . |
| 11 | And if you were doing a little programme on , on yogurt and they were sort of going at it absolutely straight for the ‘ You watch this and you 're going to do that and you 're going to do the other ’ . |
| 12 | But if I 'm moving around slightly like this and you 're having to follow with your eyes as I 'm making my presentation it brings variety to it brings that bit of variety like you said earlier that it brings some interest to it . |
| 13 | The jury is out on this and I am sitting firmly on the fence . |
| 14 | We talking about this and I was saying about coming from construction I says I 've says I 've to go up the cut like |
| 15 | Get your salary , that you feel that I 'm doing this and I 'm getting it right . |
| 16 | You know at the top it was like sloping down here and the car 's like this and I 'm having to try and get the car back down without it toppling over and it was an abs |
| 17 | I got Pipkin into this and I 'm going to get him out . " |
| 18 | Again that , that is , is very clear and it 's representing initiation rituals . |
| 19 | This is partly to get higher wages , but it is really so because jobs are run-of-the-mill and they are looking simply for a change of venue , a new setting , and new faces . |
| 20 | I told the cleaning ladies and they came up and said , twiddled around with it and said that they could n't work out what was wrong and they were gon na get some engineers in or something , engineers ? |
| 21 | And when people send her christmas cards everyone 's gon na spell it wrong and she 's gon na be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 22 | I knew it had gone horribly wrong and it was going to hurt . |
| 23 | ‘ Still , I was quicker and I was pushing hard until about 10 laps from the finish when I thought the engine sounded a little bit different . |
| 24 | I mean , there 's kids round my way who are 11 or 12 years old and they 're dropping Es and smoking draw . |
| 25 | If you 're eighteen to twenty four years old and you 're bringing up a child on your own . |
| 26 | ‘ You are nine years old and you are going to be sent away to a good school , and you must take advantage of all they teach you . |
| 27 | However he 's now five months old and I 'm looking forward to getting back out there . |
| 28 | Then I 'm going to the British Embassy and get a copy of the Daily Telegraph and I do n't care if it 's weeks old and I 'm going to read something I never normally look at like the nature notes if they have them . |
| 29 | Some poor little kid six years old and he was wearing his shell suit |
| 30 | She 's ten years old and she 's sucking up her clothes . |