Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been stamping his feet impatiently in Gdansk waiting for the call to be Poland 's first non-communist president in more than 40 years . |
| 2 | Often whole sites have been filled which will inevitably result in expensive foundation design . |
| 3 | A woman 's been phoning your office every day : wants to speak to you . |
| 4 | Well I 've been very good I 've not been phoning anybody else |
| 5 | Lucy 's been phoning you regularly , right ? ’ |
| 6 | I think it is a pity that so many anglers are devoting their whole fishing careers to the one species . |
| 7 | Imagine how it feels ( if you are the incumbent MP ) to know that , that very morning , thousands of people are devoting their whole attention to getting rid of you . |
| 8 | By rights she should be sleeping the sleep of the just by now , she realised despondently as she switched on the bedside lamp — instead she 'd been reliving everything over and over in her mind . |
| 9 | If you have been dismissed you may be falling behind with mortgage payments , rent or other debts . |
| 10 | How easy it had been to mislead him , as he produced his apologetic arguments and justifications . |
| 11 | Up to this point the US had been binding itself to Vietnam with conceptual associations , policy objectives , and some material considerations . |
| 12 | Her thin lip curled in a rare smile — one might say she had been pursuing her own studies . |
| 13 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 14 | She had been pursuing me . |
| 15 | David Lloyd clubs , all 7 of them — and more to come — are building their reputation on quality of service , something which has allowed him the entrepreneurial satisfaction of seeing his company expand , when others around him are failing , victims of all the British recession . |
| 16 | Next to his house , his parents are building their own — the Ruggia family is close . |
| 17 | Pictured with him is the group 's chairman , Tony Edwards one of 22 mainly unemployed people who are building their own homes during the project . |
| 18 | As well as providing an all-weather play house , the children are building their knowledge of maths , science , technology and English . |
| 19 | Selling engines to original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ) , such as vehicle builders , agricultural and mechanical handling equipment manufacturers , and producers of generating sets and compressors means selling to customers who are building somebody else 's product into the heart of their own machines . |
| 20 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 21 | IT IS a sunny morning and , leaning on your spade , you contemplate the dozen plots where you and 11 friends are building your dream homes … |
| 22 | These dimensions have been tested ergonomically , and are designed to fit in with standard appliances , so they provide a useful guide if you are building your own units instead of buying ready-made . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , Master , we are building our arguments on the fact that there were men who looked like King James . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We are building our own garden , thanks to a grant from the Merseyside Environmental Trust . |
| 25 | Failing that I 'd settle for reincarnating as either Paul Raymond , Madonna 's fingers , Phil 's meat pie collection , Ian Osborne 's dentist ( not that he 's ever been to see one , mind you ! ) , a bar of soap in an all-girl boarding school or a big black cat named Thad ! |
| 26 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 27 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 28 | She 's supportable at home , but she can never remember that people have been to see her , so she 's always lonely . ’ |
| 29 | She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since . |
| 30 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |