Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | The only way to compare them is to calculate what they would be paying over the whole 25 years if neither of them moved from their present home . |
2 | Magellan captured a number of these immense people — one pair by the crud trick of showing them leg-irons and insisting that the proper way to carry them was to allow them to be locked around their ankles . |
3 | You may think I 'm joking I do n't go abroad for my holidays , I go to Norfolk . |
4 | Liverpool engineered their own downfall and I do n't think I 'm sticking my neck by saying Spartak have got no chance of winning that competition . |
5 | And I do n't think I do n't think I 'm leaving anything out on that and I do n't think I 'm misinterpreting where the discussion went on Friday . |
6 | Do n't think I 'm advising you to try it … but it does show what can be done . |
7 | ‘ Do n't think I 'm hurrying you but we 're rather short-staffed what with Christmas and everything . ’ |
8 | I do n't think I 'm doing anything over the weekend . |
9 | You 've probably all been in situation where you seen people zigzag across the road because they think they 're being followed the ladies will do it because she thinks a bloke is following her and the men are probably thinking does she think I 'm following her ? |
10 | ‘ Why , Mr Stevens , I should think I was addressing your father . |
11 | I was afraid the kidnappers would think I was holding it back . |
12 | Erm why do you think well why do you think I was telling you that ? |
13 | He 'd think I was saying it out of spite . ’ |
14 | Do you think I was making it all up just to console the Hobdens ? ’ |
15 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
16 | I guess I was eating too much , but I did n't think I was overdoing it . |
17 | Why , did you think I was following you ? ’ |
18 | ‘ What makes you think I was following you ? ’ |
19 | I know you realised I was following him . |
20 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
21 | ‘ I fear I was paying you little attention . |
22 | Well I I mean I was thinking you know er it 's probably a good idea for for erm Well I 've heard it proposed by people who do these things |
23 | The bar 's there , I mean I was thinking you had your stool , painted that white on |
24 | And watch out with the scale on these , on histograms , and on any graphs because , what happens I mean I was watching somebody do this a couple of days ago . |
25 | Not like , I mean I was making my way there , he was making his way there and I would n't want them to come and pick me up in the car |
26 | I mean I was meaning I want to , to get your standard drawings out of there . |
27 | Well , they o , they have n't bothered up there , so I think people , I mean I was doing it , I was , she sort of shoved them in this thingie and I looked up and it said , green ! |
28 | and that , that to me is just a waste of time , no I mean I 'm wasting their time and mine so |
29 | ‘ You mean I 'm riding him ? ’ |
30 | I mean I 'm abandoning it , I said . |