Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as yu is living an yu want eat food |
| 2 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
| 3 | He answers , ‘ She is cooking and she is eating . |
| 4 | Every bride looks beautiful — this is partly because of what she is wearing and partly because she is usually glowing with happiness . |
| 5 | Now she is wishing that I was back at work . ’ |
| 6 | Nicola from Chartbury in Oxfordshire is very worried about her younger son , and she is hoping that some of you may be able to help . |
| 7 | Now she is hoping that her open luck will change , though it looks as though Smashiton will have too much to do in tonight 's £100 450 metres open at Sunderland . |
| 8 | And she has got the courage to look at that million people , which takes courage , and look at the thousand which she is helping and saying , no love is never wasted . |
| 9 | ‘ She thinks that she is helping and encouraging me . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She is insisting that Gerry finds them a ‘ love nest ’ a safe distance from his wife . |
| 12 | Eliza is portrayed as the most emotionally-balanced member of her family : she is loving as well as reasonable ( hence the original title of the book — ‘ Love and Reason ’ ) . |
| 13 | She is inferring that when mortals feel secure , and sound in their knowledge of others , then that is the time for them to be unsure of most , because if anything is going to happen , it will happen then . |
| 14 | Obviously , if Jane says I 'm skipping and Mary says I 'm skipping we observe that on one occasion it is Jane who announces that she is skipping and on another it is Mary . |
| 15 | However when she is heeling and lurching her way to windward the aggregate of the tensions in the shrouds and stays which support the masts is comparable to the ship 's displacement and may thus amount to several thousand tons . |
| 16 | She is maddening and charming . |
| 17 | In each case , the child must not only find a way of getting the adult to notice the object , but she must do this in such a way that the adult is aware of what she is doing and why she is doing it . |
| 18 | As Carolyn observes : ‘ I 'm not a terribly spiritual person but I do believe that she was meant to do what she is doing and she certainly believes that . |
| 19 | But the promise of the student 's higher education is realized when the student is able to raise him or herself out of that state of ‘ delight ’ ( to borrow again from Marjorie Reeves ) and to reflect on what he or she is doing and thinking . |
| 20 | I have the right to know what she is doing and , if she is having an affair , it has got to stop because it is driving me out of my mind . ’ |
| 21 | But we 're grateful to Eileen for what she is doing and will continue to do and we 're grateful to John for what he intends to do erm for three years at any stage wha at any stage in which they choose . |
| 22 | Sally 's parents keep themselves aware of her circle of friends and make sure they know where she is going when she goes out . |
| 23 | One strange thing about her books is that they nearly all tend to be set a little bit back in the past , so that the position of the women that she is describing and the society in which she is describing them is n't quite what 's actually going on a the time she 's writing . |
| 24 | Firstly , in relation to users and carers , the practitioner may well be aware that she is identifying and discussing needs which are unlikely to be met within the current limits and range of available services . |
| 25 | She pronounces ‘ liver ’ with a long vowel , so that for a second he thinks she is asking if he likes geese saliva . |
| 26 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 27 | In the language of contemporary sociology , she is saying that juvenile delinquency is a subculture … |
| 28 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 29 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 30 | So you 're , you 're both on the same bike , one , one of you is riding and one of you is riding pillion , is that right ? |