Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So long as yu is living an yu want eat food
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 cos she 's recording and she wants to hear somebody speaking on it
5 With these problems she 's having and they do n't know what 's wrong with her .
6 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 ?
7 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
8 She 's going and she dies right , she 's so happy , she 's got a good one .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 I said you , I said I do n't go out with and he 's saying , she 's saying that I do
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Sally 's parents keep themselves aware of her circle of friends and make sure they know where she is going when she goes out .
15 She pronounces ‘ liver ’ with a long vowel , so that for a second he thinks she is asking if he likes geese saliva .
16 I 've got , I feel as if it 's getting and I do n't know if it 's erm to be
17 When it 's raining that I find depressing !
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 it 's raining and I call it nice
21 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 .
22 So there 's an example of where it 's happening and I hope it will happen over the whole field .
23 It 's like it 's it was a you know it 's been and still is an experience you know it 's sort of n none of us almost you know we we do n't realize it 's happening and you know you like back on the minutes of .
24 I think it 's deceiving because it 's got such high ceilings
25 It 's going where we want to go anyway — ‘
26 And given his own class position , as an émigré from the upper middle-class , a class serviced by the domestic labour of the working class , it is telling that he understands the contribution of coal to his class comfort , but does n't discuss the contribution of that other " service " , domestic service .
27 I notice the difference on those occasions when it is raining and I wear a hat .
28 But he 's also saying is n't he at the end of this paragraph , or he 's implying that th this is this revolution is not happening because we the communists are making it happen , it is happening and we need to react to it and somehow we 've therefore got a choice , we can either trail behind or we can lead it .
29 I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected .
30 The reduction in the intensity of the stimuli associated with the drive is as reinforcing as the actual reduction of the drive itself : thus food in the mouth does not reduce hunger , but it is reinforcing as it reduces the drive stimulus or craving for food .
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