Example sentences of "[indef pn] be [v-ing] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If someone 's living there we 've no business to go rootling round . |
| 2 | If the answer is no , then you need to think about how you could improve that piece of work , somebody is speaking now it 's bad enough you owe me ten minutes if it 's not the best piece of work you 've ever done , why is n't it ? |
| 3 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
| 4 | and then and then you get this feeling down here like something 's rumbling then you go aaaaaaah I 'm gon na be sick ! |
| 5 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |
| 6 | Well it 's it 's say I say I was doing my best , as it were , say that everything was going swimmingly I 'd be getting a profit of thirty pounds from Neil twenty pounds from Alan because five will go on the tea and the milk and the box of Cornflakes and the toast er twenty , thirty , that 's fifty and twenty for Paul which is seventy . |
| 7 | ‘ The little one was wheezing so I kept him home . |
| 8 | Sandy was going to the US and I asked if I could carry for him the next year , but everybody was asking so I did n't get very far . |
| 9 | No-one 's saying precisely what the bull elephant has cost , but bronze works of art are expensive . |
| 10 | No-one 's saying precisely what the bull elephant has cost , but bronze works of art are expensive . |
| 11 | And everyone was saying well it was a shame you 've got this far . |