Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can hear a muffled distant television , Jancey is still chatting next door , and someone outside is calling goodnight . |
| 2 | Someone else been making telephone calls ? |
| 3 | There 's a close-up of a guitar when someone 's playing the piano , and a close-up of the back of someone 's head when someone else is f—ing flying over the other side of the stage . |
| 4 | You might have to allow yourself more than this if you are away from home and someone else is preparing food for you . |
| 5 | It appears that all this time I too was working flat out , because , in addition to a heavy load of teaching , I was writing articles right and left , as well as tinkering with the political book . |
| 6 | For example , I take on mobility and activities , somebody else is doing incontinence , somebody else first aid , somebody else mental health . |
| 7 | She sometimes had dinner with Sir Thomas Fairfax , who tonight is having dinner with Lady De Marr . |
| 8 | The extent to which Th1 responses are down-regulated in infected patients , who clearly are mounting antiparasite Th2-like responses , remains unclear , although some studies have indicated less of a suppression than that seen in infected mice ( Dunne ; C. King , Case Western Reserve ) . |
| 9 | Michael Swinton looked easily at both of them and said to Alexandra , ‘ My dear , you really are holding court . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You really are talking nonsense , ’ Alice said quickly . |
| 11 | It is hard to think of him doing any worse for England than the cardboard cut-outs who allegedly were playing midfield in Santander the other night . |
| 12 | to take part which should be quite interesting I have n't really discussed it in detail with him because I was n't sure who else was taking part and what sort of format we 're thinking of having |
| 13 | Should n't we now be acknowledging blame rather than passing the buck ? |
| 14 | No wonder Yves Montand says in the film Grand Prix : ‘ There 's only racing : everything else is marking time . ’ |
| 15 | To decide whether they really are learning Creole as a second language , we need information about at least two areas : ( 1 ) the age of acquisition ; ( 2 ) the nature of the process of acquisition itself . |
| 16 | They certainly are doing bonzo business down there in South Ken . |
| 17 | This time he really was travelling light . |
| 18 | So what you 're saying , that may have been a true figure perhaps two or three days ago , but it actually is changing day by day . |
| 19 | He too was watching Coleby . |
| 20 | Robert Thirtle is bored bachelor Richard , stuck minding the fort while everyone else is having fun ; looking for love while guarding a lunatic prisoner . |