Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think of one lady I am counselling as I write this . |
| 2 | But more important than that , the title also represented a triumph in the battle against time which he has been waging since he learned that he might soon be forced to quit the Tour . |
| 3 | Well I 'm hoping that , that tape I 've been using when I go to Ian and Shaun 's , that er the noise of Rangers does nay it ma goes too loud , you know . |
| 4 | His performances on video and in the flesh at seminars are electrifying as he paces around , shirtsleeved and sweating , exhorting his audience to liberate themselves from old ways of thinking . |
| 5 | Those who have a cold or flu are doubting whether they have had enough time to get over the illness , even if it did strike last November . |
| 6 | Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard . |
| 7 | Oh well we 've been walking when we 've gone into town but I mean just between you and me but when I got home Bev said pop into town I 've got a parcel to post and I said well I ca n't I said because according to Des well nothing happened |
| 8 | But we not regimented in this department we 're flexible that 's why these things are happening cos we turn our hands to whatever we believe is in the interests of the company . |
| 9 | When they could hold it no longer the Collector shouted the order to retire to the next door : that which led from the drawing-room to the hall and where , several weeks earlier , the Collector had been lurking as he tried to make up his mind to attend the meeting of the Krishnapur Poetry Society . |
| 10 | Because none of us wants to have er , the problems that are occurring when you do n't put any sheep dip on . |
| 11 | And thousands of people are dying as you read this as a result . |
| 12 | I 'd better bring you up to date on what 's been happening since I saw you . ’ |
| 13 | This magic had been happening while they had been closeted with the policeman discussing the prosaic and sordid details of the burglary . |
| 14 | A lot must have been happening while he had slept . |
| 15 | planes are landing as we speak , erm there are an enormous number of books on American politics , most of them are identical er with different covers . |
| 16 | I realized he had been listening until he heard Catherine say she could not marry him . |
| 17 | I mean we , we 've been looking before you know that the situation got |
| 18 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 19 | ‘ By 1988 I was updating the book I had been writing when I met Diana . |
| 20 | He recognises that they are boasting when they talk . |
| 21 | I am writing as I disagree with various comments made in an article entitled A Pair of Glasses … by Linda Lewis , as I feel that it gave Indian Glassfish a very negative press . |
| 22 | The patient had been living before she came to London on the outskirts of a town in Bangladesh . |
| 23 | She had n't been acting when she 'd responded so passionately out there on the dance floor . |
| 24 | read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns . |
| 25 | you only get a hu yo you 're struggling if you 've only a got a hundred . |
| 26 | You 're listening as you approach the bathroom door . |
| 27 | I just hope they 're chanting when we win the Championship . |
| 28 | what you 're looking for I mean there were firms like you know |
| 29 | Oh well , we 're going after we 've been |
| 30 | It just depends where we 're going cos I do n't know what we 're doing yet So I 'd and the woman 's coming round tonight so I 'll just , sort of , say to her if I can keep it over the weekend I can do a lot more so otherwise I 'll feel a bit bad |