Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can get cranks , you just believe in flying saucers and a quite happy harmless , but , I think they need checking on to make sure that they are happy with the life they 're leading it bothers me a lot |
| 2 | ‘ They are sending someone to show us the way . ’ |
| 3 | Or failing the gift of a sum in cash , I am asking you to make it a business transaction , to buy what you clearly must need and what we can no longer afford to keep . |
| 4 | YOUR children may be pestering you to give them a games system for Christmas but you may be better off with a real computer instead . |
| 5 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 6 | Erm it would be extremely difficult t for them not to occupy our thoughts , I 'm not sure whether your question is is inviting me to consider what the European Community should be doing in the context of Bosnia . |
| 7 | Work out the pros and cons of what you are considering , and if your instinct is telling you to give it a try then go ahead . |
| 8 | When they arrived back at the butterwood where he had been sleeping he showed her a white fungus around its base . |
| 9 | Actually , the speaker that was talking about this was suggesting we give them an enormous amount of real tangible assets , er without it costing us anything . |
| 10 | ‘ Rainey put in some fast laps during the final stages of qualifying , so I was expecting him to give me a tough time , ’ said Doohan . |
| 11 | He was shaking me calling me a slut and a whore and saying they were n't his kids everything , I do n't know , I could n't breathe — he were choking me — ’ |