Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone 's ringing when somebody 's camped on to you and they then decide they do n't want to call you . |
| 2 | This is precisely the degree of stylistic affinity which is missing when one compares the Orpheus mosaics of Withington and Newton St. Loe . |
| 3 | So long as yu is living an yu want eat food |
| 4 | But looks are deceiving and , despite her daintiness , Jo 's no lightweight — for , as Home and Away 's policewoman Jane Holland , she 's proving that you do n't have to be big and brawny to act tough . |
| 5 | Erm I just wonder whether it might not have been better to move round a little bit to the left so we could have seen the lady 's hand and sa as well er er and as well as her face , you know , we 've got ta get we can see what she 's doing , know what she 's doing but it 'd been nice if you could have included her hands . |
| 6 | cos she 's recording and she wants to hear somebody speaking on it |
| 7 | With these problems she 's having and they do n't know what 's wrong with her . |
| 8 | She , she did n't mind because she 's winking and I thought ah is n't that nice of her , it is really because she organised it all and she do n't know me so that was very kind of her did n't you think so Bet ? |
| 9 | Oh that 's very nice of you but I did n't know whether you were or not and she phoned , no I phoned her and she 's going and she said she 'd come for me so |
| 10 | She 's going and she dies right , she 's so happy , she 's got a good one . |
| 11 | I know , you see him , he 's walking and you see him , he 's going ruff , ruff and she 's going and I thought , no , man , I do n't care if I 'm friends with her no I 'm not going near her with the dog . |
| 12 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
| 13 | I said you , I said I do n't go out with and he 's saying , she 's saying that I do |
| 14 | I was terrified when Herman , like someone in her books , turned to me and said : ‘ How delightful it would be if one could hear what she 's saying when she does this . |
| 15 | Not just on my own he just said that , it was a bit bad cos I , I said to him , you know , who 's going and he listed like er reeled off , I ca n't remember , reeled off a load of blokes yes last night and I said are there any girls going and he said well I 'll see if I can get Laura and Giles to come and I said yeah I feel much better about that , you know , whatever and then today he said erm look ca n't go and was a real , I du n no he 's got something and he 's usually like the real medium and he , you know , if there 's e if there 's ever like a pregnant pause then he 's the one that like keeps it all going |
| 16 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 17 | Sally 's parents keep themselves aware of her circle of friends and make sure they know where she is going when she goes out . |
| 18 | She pronounces ‘ liver ’ with a long vowel , so that for a second he thinks she is asking if he likes geese saliva . |
| 19 | We can always tell who is speaking because they speak different languages . |
| 20 | He said from experience that in using an agency it was extremely difficult to get even a small number of carers , quote , you know who is coming when they arrive through the door , unquote . |
| 21 | Those conditions still stood , she told MPs , ‘ but no one is suggesting that we dot every ‘ i ’ and cross every ‘ t ’ before we look at it . ’ |
| 22 | No one 's disputing that you 've done well . |
| 23 | Sorry , that one 's shaking cos you 've got it tucked up , cos I 'm touching you is n't it ? |
| 24 | I 've got , I feel as if it 's getting and I do n't know if it 's erm to be |
| 25 | When it 's raining that I find depressing ! |
| 26 | Even the boring days outside when it 's raining and you 've finished the paper and you do n't know how you 'll last till bedtime are days to savour , compared to drying up in a cell . |
| 27 | And there 's erm mm oh erm there 's there 's erm a boy with a big umbrella who 's got , and it 's raining and he 's got , I did n't know April showers were like this . |
| 28 | it 's raining and I call it nice |
| 29 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |
| 30 | So there 's an example of where it 's happening and I hope it will happen over the whole field . |