Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 2 | Our own expert Mandy Johnson has been telling you the wisdom of physiotherapy for many , many months and will continue for some time to come . |
| 3 | Once it has been established what the relevant scope of the employer 's business is , the next question is whether the restriction does no more than protect any existing customer connection . |
| 4 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 5 | so Richard 's crying because he 'd been hitting him the face . |
| 6 | What archaeology can not do is tell us the names of the people and what great deeds they did , how they influenced each other , and what they thought and believed in — these are things that only historical evidence can tell us . |
| 7 | All Glen 's got ta do is give me the car , if he does n't |
| 8 | What we must do is see what the problems are from the owner 's point of view and analyse exactly what is going on . |
| 9 | Now , what I 'm going to do is show you the advantage of putting somebody on hold as opposed to trying to put your hand over the receiver . |
| 10 | All you have to do is tell me the truth . ’ |
| 11 | I told him I knew Marc was going to listen to him , would help him , that all he had to do was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 12 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 13 | He says that the message from those giving evidence was that they should have been told what the situation was — that terreorist were known to be active in the region . |
| 14 | What we 're doing is showing them the colour of light , the hydrogen spectrum that 's given off and asking them to make some measurements on it which give a clue to the nature of what is happening in hydrogen . |
| 15 | But what I am doing is giving you the opportunity to prove me wrong . |
| 16 | Well that 's right , I mean were see what the weather 's like . |
| 17 | ‘ All I did was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 19 | A few minutes later , as he turned right into the Banbury Road , now beginning to think once more with some semblance of rationality , Morse considered whether his witness had been telling him the whole truth . |
| 20 | ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch . |
| 21 | Off in the distance on the back lawns fires had been lit which the audience were moshing around . |
| 22 | He had been told what the writer wrote about the regime and the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council . |
| 23 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 24 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 25 | the old boys have been telling us the stories and it 's brought a tear to the eye |
| 26 | Well I 'd like to say that it 's not only adults who have an interest in this subject and have been watching what the county council is going to do about it . |
| 27 | But Aldi says it has had trouble : the Office of Fair Trading is investigating Aldi 's claim that suppliers , frightened of affronting their main customers , have been giving it the cold shoulder . |
| 28 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |