Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Peter I sa la one night last week oh it was the week before I was going up past and this fella was walking and he was fucking staggering and he was going on the road and Peter 's came back and fucking him . |
| 2 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 3 | Not a lot was happening and I was really tired so I decided to go to bed . |
| 4 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 5 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 6 | Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it . |
| 7 | One of the great things about watching a good comedy show or film is that people around you start laughing and you are much more likely to join in . |
| 8 | It is very important to keep on happy and good terms with the family that are living and it is extremely sad when the death of a parent who loved all the children should be an unwitting source of family rifts . |
| 9 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 10 | A blackbird was singing and it was very quiet and peaceful in the Park . |
| 11 | Councillor and Councillor mentioned testing and they 're dead right , I oppose it , it 's an irrelevance , a complete distraction . |
| 12 | Why do you bother paying and we were just mucking about you know , like I know something |
| 13 | That unsettled me a bit , but we eventually got going and it was all right . |
| 14 | And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see . |
| 15 | Her mouth was everywhere , biting me and sucking my mouth and kissing me , and her fingers pinched and stroked her legs coiled round my legs until every bit of me was throbbing and burning and twitching and I was only conscious of never wanting it to stop . |
| 16 | Pauline sold him at weaning and he is now another family 's pride and joy . |
| 17 | The operation was carried out at the National Heart the next day , with the odds improving and I was then transferred to Harefield for five weeks . |
| 18 | All of the top clubs have been faltering and we 're quite happy to creep up on them . |
| 19 | His face was bleeding and he was clearly very frightened . |
| 20 | The sexual revolution was beginning and it was very exciting to get away from home and enjoy yourself in a relatively guilt-free way . ’ |
| 21 | I was busting and I was there going I said and I could n't exactly say can I go to the toilet ? |
| 22 | ‘ Immediately after the crash I could n't feel the baby moving and he was normally a quite active baby , ’ she said . |
| 23 | ‘ Immediately after the crash I could n't feel the baby moving and he was normally a quite active baby . ’ |
| 24 | I think that we have a very butch attitude , I think the government has a very butch attitude quite honestly , er to , you know , you 've got to er stand up there and help yourself , and I suppose I 'm all for that , but you 've got to have something to help yourself with , and I think that 's where we ought to be aiming and I 'm very glad that the world 's leaders are heading straight in that direction . . |
| 25 | I get the impression he agrees with what I 'm saying and he 's just shaking his head at the sheer extent of human deviousness and spite . |
| 26 | The clouds had thinned , the sun was shining and it was almost warm enough to create the illusion of summer . |
| 27 | Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants . |
| 28 | I know , look crying and it 's still sore today . |
| 29 | The children knew that the little bunnies were coming and they were so careful of the mother when they fed her with lettuce and cabbage . |
| 30 | and erm but the plane , the er boat was slow in coming and it was so hard to get a ship back then |