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Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Those who have a cold or flu are doubting whether they have had enough time to get over the illness , even if it did strike last November .
2	Oh well we 've been walking when we 've gone into town but I mean just between you and me but when I got home Bev said pop into town I 've got a parcel to post and I said well I ca n't I said because according to Des well nothing happened
3	A lot must have been happening while he had slept .
4	He had heard from other prisoners ( he told Beltrami ) that a man called Ian Waddell had been boasting that he had taken part in the Ayr crime , and then , on a quite different charge , Waddell was sent to Barlinnie himself .
5	Erm we are looking and we have found in a sense erm land which er is available erm to meet the provisions , the a hundred and forty five hectares that the Greater York study suggested .
6	Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem .
7	She had n't been acting when she 'd responded so passionately out there on the dance floor .
8	the first bit yeah you 're remembering the last bit when you 're remembering that you 've forgot the first bit .
9	go to the shop and you 're wondering if you 've got the right change .
10	You know what you 're getting because we 've had it before .
11	Mind you , once you get to the know the typewriter and that I mean you know what you 're doing and you 've done your R S A one .
12	We 're saying that we 've got two of our our particular sub-patterns matching .
13	you 're , you 're , you 're saying that I 've got to do ?
14	Right , right I know what you 're saying and you 've got to be very very careful .
15	Do you know how much of electricity you 're losing because you 've got no seal on the freezer ?
16	I mean I wonder who exactly you 're attracting if you 've got people coming to listen to music and then
17	I 'd been wondering whether anybody had noticed my presence at all .
18	The warning alert must have been sounding since he had broken into the room .
19	I am wondering whether I have sussed this right .
20	He would have been lying if he had recorded only the more accessible drama of the painter 's electric quarrels with Gauguin in the Yellow House in Arles , the distant necessary brother who supplied paint and love , the severed ear delivered to the whore in the brothel , the asylum fears .
21	But some Thais are wondering whether they have gone about things in the right way .
22	that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as
23	And what the hell had happened to the mild , gentle humour he 'd been displaying since he 'd arrived ?
24	‘ Many people are reporting that they have changed their eating habits .
25	‘ As far as Frank is concerned , he is entirely satisfied with what I am doing and he has given me the space to get on with it .
26	That is what I 've been doing and I have had some marvellous views of them . ’
27	Many of us are saying that we 've had enough .
28	Well yes , yes in terms it sounds mos most confusing compared with a straightforward business world but if , if , if the campaign are saying that it 's got to be this way for legal reasons they 're not prepared to accept it .
29	I need interpreters in my surgery who can speak Punjabi , Urdu and Gujarati , otherwise I can not understand fully what my constituents are saying when they have complicated immigration problems .
30	His mother had been crying as she had rifled the house for money for him , and as she had made sandwiches to put in greaseproof paper because it would be dangerous for him to stop at cafés on his way to the airport .