Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 2 | So teachers I do n't think are going |
| 3 | Things that you just do n't think are going to happen |
| 4 | Er I do n't think are pulling out but they , they 've suspended things , but I mean they just do n't know if they 're competing . |
| 5 | He said , well you see I 've been smoking . |
| 6 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 7 | P.P.S I see they 've been feeding Mark H on the raw meat again : - ) ) ) How did ‘ Antiscum United ’ go on over the weekend by the way ? ? |
| 8 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
| 9 | " I see you 've been getting him a new collar and lead . " |
| 10 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 11 | What Mr Sutherland can 've been thinking of , I do n't know . |
| 12 | He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something . |
| 13 | who was sitting in the audience who is a nurse and er would 've known and she would 've been trying to get in and say this is not true . |
| 14 | Well we see we 've been saving the stamps so we had believe it or not |
| 15 | Yeah and she gets points for doing it do n't you , you 've been saving them up have n't you ? |
| 16 | She might 've been calculating something . |
| 17 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
| 18 | We would 've been revising had we not been here . |
| 19 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
| 20 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 21 | Erm so maybe we could we 've been using sodium a lot try calcium because it 's interesting cos it 's got a double one a double positive negative is it ? |
| 22 | she must 've been holding it in because she did n't wan na wipe her bum with her hand and then you know it just burst out before she could get to the toilet . |
| 23 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 25 | No but it must 've been talking about youngsters having cars |
| 26 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 27 | I mean I did ask you about the outstanding bills and loans whereas if we 'd 've been doing the thing properly we 'd 've gone through that |
| 28 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 29 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 30 | I do n't they 've been doing anything to me yet okay . |