Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All my pleasures will be solitary , even when I happen to be in company ; I shall not be exhilarated simply because the people around me are enjoying themselves , nor depressed because they are in low spirits . |
| 2 | For example , the stressed housewife may take rights 3 and 7 and decide that : ‘ I have the right to suggest to my elderly mother-in-law that she enquire about the possibility of a home-help , as the demands she is making on me are wearing me out ’ . |
| 3 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 4 | Because , tomorrow … tomorrow , head , you and me are leaving . |
| 5 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 6 | A year or two later , expanding on her analysis , Iris Murdoch dubbed the journalistic novel ‘ loose and cheerful ’ , adding gaily that she was inclined to start writing a novel in the hope that ‘ a lot of people who are not me are going to come into existence in some wonderful way ’ — though frustrated , sometimes , by the prevailing theoretical power of her own philosophical mind . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm just pleased I had the idea and that anglers with a lot more skill than me are showing what can be done with it , ’ he said modestly . |
| 8 | He , I tell you want he does n't do , I should n't let you hear , but , when he , when him and me are arguing when we were younger , and me dad used to wind Colin up , and wind me up , and I 'd get madder and madder , and me dad used to love it . |
| 9 | Lurking in unfamiliar corners of your class-divided towns , men like me are gon na smash your fortunate houses down . |
| 10 | Mummy me are gon na go in there |
| 11 | Oh mum me do it , me are gon na do that and that in a minute |
| 12 | Dad erm her and are gon na go there and you and me are gon na |
| 13 | There 's me been putting sugar in his Ovaltine for the last fifty years . |
| 14 | All Hanne knows is that the two of them are staying somewhere in Copenhagen for an indefinite period . ’ |
| 15 | The three of them are presiding over us like a tribunal . |
| 16 | ‘ while a lot of the older staff , the older side of the staff , I think a lot of them are getting browned off with it . |
| 17 | Some of them are getting very elaborate , and you 're seeing the stuff in the press for things like ten percent gross yields , has anybody seen those ? |
| 18 | Firstly , I am tired of hearing from experts that so many of the world 's problems are insoluble : poverty , malnutrition , pollution , road accidents , bureaucracy , illiteracy , inflation … there are literally hundreds of such problems , and most of them are getting worse . |
| 19 | In fact over two million people in the UK have the disease , but only a quarter of them are getting any treatment . |
| 20 | cos some of them are getting |
| 21 | cos some of them are getting |
| 22 | A group of them are taking a truck of supplies out to Romania at Easter . |
| 23 | Now more and more of them are taking their place on that very same stage . |
| 24 | None of them are taking their husbands see but they 're taking friends . |
| 25 | sort of , but neither of them are taking it on are they next year ? |
| 26 | I said well a lot of them are leaving today . |
| 27 | Two of them are wearing spectacles , and one a hearing-aid . |
| 28 | Just four of the top names M & S , Sainsbury 's , Safeway and Tesco take half of its output and sales to them are rising by 10pc a year . |
| 29 | People have come out on to balconies and some of them are shouting slogans supporting the protests . ’ |
| 30 | He wonders how many of his fellow-countrymen visit Britain with this kind of attitude , undoing all the good work the rest of them are struggling to do . |