Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mouth jams open , and she says that if I really am going , then either she comes with me or she is staying here to pack . |
| 2 | THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us . |
| 3 | Even if we can convince ourselves that nobody is getting hurt , even if we are sure we are not cheating , we have a suspicion that it is inappropriate . ’ |
| 4 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 5 | A nasty suspicion comes to me that he is taking the question seriously . |
| 6 | The new inspector advises me that he is restricting the loan interest relief to that payable on the Halifax loan on the basis that ‘ the net MIRAS arrangements have been fully utilised by the Halifax loan ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you telling me that someone is paying you to come here and write about voodoo ? |
| 8 | May I invite the Minister to come to Monmouth to discuss those problems with the farmers there , which will give him the opportunity to assure them that he is seeking to protect their interests ? |
| 9 | Christophe Deylaud has been encouraged to express himself and he is improving in heaps and bounds . |
| 10 | He is a very shrewd businessman who has taken full advantage of having a market very largely to himself and who is suffering a temporary setback as a result of the economy . |
| 11 | Mathematics is a wonderful subject but the physicist has always to ask himself whether he is using those mathematical constructs which are truly appropriate to the way the world is . |
| 12 | She is looking for a dress for me and she is waiting to comb my hair , and she has the look on her face that she has when she guts the chickens . |
| 13 | ‘ Atkinson is best running at them and nobody is doing it better . ’ |
| 14 | It is arguable that the reader may actually be confused rather than helped by the deviation from convention , precisely because she or he is expecting you to conform to the rules of punctuation . |
| 15 | If you can record interviews at different points in a course , then edit the same student 's interviews onto one tape , you provide an encouraging record for the student of the progress she or he is making . |
| 16 | In fact he 's so wrong for you that he is upsetting your life . " |
| 17 | While working the FAXgrabber icon appears at the bottom of the screen and little bracket symbols move from side to side underneath it to tell you that it is operating . |
| 18 | A weekly flow chart , showing day by day and hour by hour , who and what is coming into an old person 's home to provide care , is useful in illustrating the reality of community care . |
| 19 | And yes , it should concern you because what is happening is that our transports are disappearing . |
| 20 | There is much more action by the train itself while it is singing and ‘ screaming ’ and as it ‘ bolts ’ and plunges and also within the lines which describe the movement . |
| 21 | His voice , which sounds like a male version of Dietrich 's , trips over itself when he is trying to communicate one of his many enthusiasms . |
| 22 | Can anyone expect Mr. Kiechle to stand up and explain everything that he is looking for ? |
| 23 | When one uses some expression , such as ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ , there are usually not two things , one that one is saying and one that one is thinking . |
| 24 | If you go on meeting this man in this fashion , it 's a hundred to one that somebody is going to find out . |
| 25 | If we analyse the relation between the event of " passively experiencing " denoted by have and that of saying or happening denoted by the infinitive , it becomes obvious immediately that the two must be conceived as occurring in the same stretch of time : one can only experience something while it is happening . |
| 26 | I believe that those sexual practices which fail to recognise the essential humanity of other people are bad ; the man who rapes an unwilling partner , the individual who takes delight in the infliction of pain upon a partner who does not desire it , or the one who forces another into any sexual practice which is obnoxious to him or her is using the " partner " as an object rather than interacting with him or her as a human being . |
| 27 | As John Netherwood , who was in charge of publicity and sponsorship in 1964 , said : ‘ To get sponsors you have to tell everybody that it is going to be the biggest event that ever was , otherwise they wo n't put their money in . ’ |
| 28 | I telephoned him as soon as I had read the article , and told him that he is facing a very heavy fine for talking to the Press without my permission . |
| 29 | Now he does not tell her that he is going to put a knife to that child 's throat and burn his body to ashes . |
| 30 | The servant warns him if he is going to step into a hole , and reminds him to reply if someone speaks to him . |