Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick , thank you for those kind words , er , specially about er my book , and I think I am considering appointing you as my agent er , you also said er that I 'd dr drawn the short straw indeed you er whispered to me that I was the sacrificial lamb this morning well we 'll see about that but I do know that I have the great honour to be invited to speak to congress this morning on behalf of the G M B parliamentary group . |
| 2 | So I 'm stood standing it were twenty five to seven before I m before I left Dock . |
| 3 | I 'm not sure that I really knew her and I 'm left wishing I 'd tried harder . |
| 4 | I 'm saying squaring it off financially . |
| 5 | Different size rivets , different lengths , and I , while I were hotting hotting I knew where , eventually knew where , what size rivet to put in a certain place . |
| 6 | I was dreading telling them — you ca n't imagine . |
| 7 | I was dreading telling him . |
| 8 | I sometimes think I was born loving you . ’ |
| 9 | Then one day a couple of months ago he returned , just as I was leaving assuming I 'd missed him . |
| 10 | I once knitted almost half of the front of a sweater in tuck stitch , continually dropping stitches and muttering at all the time I was spending picking them up . |
| 11 | But as far as a solid line is concerned do n't do it , because i it immediately if you if you o do transgress it 'll mean penalty points if you 're seen doing it , regardless of the consequences of it . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're enjoying seeing me laid low , are n't you ? ’ she snapped testily . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're suggesting inviting him up here , into our sitting-room ? |
| 14 | He leaned out of his window and shouted : ‘ Watch the way you 're funking going you ugly trollop . ’ |
| 15 | It 's not bad , we 're saying that the rules here are that if you 're caught dealing you 're gon na be suspended but |
| 16 | You 're saying suspending her , not cancelling . |
| 17 | Anyway , she 's stopped taking them , so she 's back to normal . |
| 18 | But she 's written saying he should stay away . |
| 19 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 20 | When she 's finished reading it again I ask her what 's the matter . |
| 21 | She may be portrayed with lions , bulls , birds , serpents , or other creatures , and she is shown dominating them , but rarely struggling with them or slaying them . |
| 22 | And then she was gone leaving me shaking with every turbulent feeling you can think of . |
| 23 | Even before she was finished speaking he was walking quickly from her towards the house . |
| 24 | ‘ She was a normal , sensible girl who had not gone off before and when she was reported missing we always feared this could be the outcome . ’ |
| 25 | Yeah , when she was saying asking them |
| 26 | And we , I was sitting up having my break with her one day , right , and your man erm er Frank Bruno and the other feller , that big Mike Tyson were fighting right , and we were sitting watching it right , and erm , Paul was sitting there and all and Margot turned round and says you know , she said it 's desperate Karen ! |
| 27 | Murray said : ‘ Each Rangers player is on a £70,000 bonus to win the European Cup , and I would happily sign the cheques today if we were guaranteed winning it . |
| 28 | Indeed , Marx argued that in most cases , because the social system is based on exploitation , people have to be consciously unaware of the basis of society if they are to continue working it . |
| 29 | And they 're chasing chasing him . |
| 30 | The actresses , of course , were frequently loaned gowns by the house free of charge for the publicity that would be gained when they were pictured wearing them , and there were those among the society women who considered themselves above coming to the couture , ordering instead from the videos that nowadays replaced the weeks of shows of the old days — and staying away all the more determinedly as the great Paris houses vied with one another to tempt them to lend their presence to the occasion . |