Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [pron] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were living at Southport and we were being bathed by mother before the kitchen fire , and I was getting undressed and being helped with the buttons by the housemaid . |
| 2 | Vicente might have entrusted it to Tristram because he was being evacuated from Teruel and was expected to go back to England . |
| 3 | As she left the room , it struck Loretta that he was being uncharacteristically quiet ; perhaps he had had too much to drink ? |
| 4 | For instance , we 'll pick up and return your car , or even lend you another Peugeot whilst yours is being serviced . |
| 5 | Search Sheets for each Division of the Register of Sasines are in the custody of the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland as they are being updated continually and are consulted by his staff in the registration of every deed presented for registration . |
| 6 | You 've got two things to sign Julia cos we 're being ethnographically studied . |
| 7 | Erm the policy panel that erm looked at this erm a week before Christmas was erm I hate to disagree with you with Peter we are not exactly unanimous in this views on terminal five and this is reflected in the erm , the Liberal Democrat resolution erm , past policy of this Council has always been to favour expansion at Heathrow rather than of Stansted and we are being asked today to confirm this stance at the forthcoming enquiry and well we 're not faced with an either or situation . |
| 8 | He has been on the Opposition Front Bench for long enough to have seen and understood the redevelopment work that is currently being undertaken in Londonderry and which is being carried out in the county towns throughout the length and breadth of Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | ‘ Onstage , ’ Fred reflects , ‘ he 's this outrageous lunatic camp person , but half an hour after the gig he 's back at the hotel reading Somerset Maugham and Rob and I are being disgusting to some barmaid completely off our head . ’ |
| 10 | He smiles as he recalls a TD asking in the Dail if nothing was being done ‘ to suppress this Republican paper ’ . |
| 11 | However — bowing to public demand — we hope to host another dance in October/November so you 're being given ample warning . |
| 12 | Hunter-Blair said he warned MacQuillan that it was being whispered around Westminster that the unions had evolved a protective strategy and were looking for an opportunity to test it . |
| 13 | Yet studiously , subtly , with no obvious exertion on Edward 's part , Laura and I were being kept at a distance . |
| 14 | Lesley and even Emma and I are being seen as lads , unfeminine , trying to be blokes . |
| 15 | I think Chris and I are are in agreement e about the technical issues here . |
| 16 | It was also implied that these illegal forces had been deployed in western Kenya where they were being used to foment ethnic violence [ see p. 38854 ] . |