Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's me been putting sugar in his Ovaltine for the last fifty years . |
| 2 | Some of them are given diplomas for doing this , so they can then prove how expert they are in disability matters . |
| 3 | The three of them are spending Christmas with us , which will be lovely , but no doubt a bit fraught , as one highly active child will be joined by one ditto kitten , who thinks nothing of leaping on to your lap at mealtimes , digging her claws into your legs for support . |
| 4 | I started off playing mid-field er and I was switched to full-back by Billy Bremner at Doncaster half way through this season , and I been playing full-back since like . |
| 5 | ‘ Andrew , my dear boy , your father and I are talking matters of great pith and moment , ’ replied Clem . |
| 6 | Mark & I are driving south on Thursday , and as today 's an Edinburgh holiday , it will mean a 2–day working week for one ! |
| 7 | Sedgemore said : ‘ I joined first class rugby late but I am enjoying life with Cardiff . |
| 8 | Before I had completed a question about whether he would like to be Chancellor , MacGregor broke in to say with a smile , as he had to : ‘ But I am enjoying being at transport . |
| 9 | I am experiencing problems with a green filamentous algae ( some of the filaments are 2–3″ in length ) which I have to remove each week when I do a 10% water change . |
| 10 | I am experiencing problems in getting a screw to hold in chipboard . |
| 11 | I am enclosing tickets for the new play and as they are in the front stalls , I may see you as I come on , ; but do not expect me to salute you , you understand , as I shall be taken up with my part . |
| 12 | I am collating information with the aim of putting practitioners in touch with each other and sharing experience . |
| 13 | Already I am organising supplies of isolating varnish to all churches and register offices . |
| 14 | ‘ I am receiving treatment at the Lister Hospital in London and any women who would be willing to donate eggs would only have to make two trips down there . |
| 15 | ‘ Here I am facing Liverpool in my first game as a fully-fledged Coventry player , so if I can put one over them , it will be the end of a perfect week . ’ |
| 16 | Or suppose that I am eating escargots for the first time and can not bring myself to forget the disgustingly slimy look and feel of snails in the garden . |
| 17 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 18 | Yes I 'm trying to get it done , but I am getting pressure from the year group as well , it was , and so I 've got that , back out at Wednesday , so I 'm gon na have to have my hair done last |
| 19 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 20 | I find this useful if I am knitting ribs on one machine and then moving the stitches to a single bed machine for the patterned part . |
| 21 | I am taking responsibility for my life . |
| 22 | Your colleague Pool is hiding his thoughts from me , just as I am hiding mine from him . |
| 23 | Suppose someone knocks on your door and says : ‘ I am collecting bribes from people who mind the factory smoke falling on their gardens . |
| 24 | I am collecting material for an MSW dissertation on the role of the probation service in influencing factors affecting the sentencing of 16- and 17-year-olds in a youth court of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 . |
| 25 | ‘ My name is Legion , and I am acting captain of the Interstellar Mining Corporation vessel Insider Trading . ’ |
| 26 | I am conducting research into the education provision and support for young people who are looked after by the local authority . |
| 27 | No I do n't think I have , indeed I am meeting members of the grass roots of the party this afternoon . |
| 28 | I shall be meeting the representatives of the Standing Conference of Principal Youth and Community Officers for the London and south-east Region on 17 December , and I am meeting representatives of the British Youth Council and the Scout Association in the near future . |
| 29 | I AM seeking information from remaining relatives , friends or ex-shipmates on SBA George Gepp , Royal Navy D/MX553308 , killed aboard LST 404 on August 24 , 1944 . |
| 30 | As a mature student studying for a degree in Sport and Recreation studies , I am undertaking research into the Staffordshire Way . |