Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I fear I was paying you little attention . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | The bar 's there , I mean I was thinking you had your stool , painted that white on |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | I mean I was meaning I want to , to get your standard drawings out of there . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | and that , that to me is just a waste of time , no I mean I 'm wasting their time and mine so |
| 9 | ‘ You mean I 'm riding him ? ’ |
| 10 | I mean I 'm abandoning it , I said . |
| 11 | Mean I 'm putting I 'm er if I was in their shoes that 's exactly and I think I 'm not far from wrong . |
| 12 | I mean I 'm subbing one well I 'm subbing two of my lodgers . |
| 13 | Heading , nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety two harvest , certified is aaron , white , clover , ex-challenge seeds , New Zealand , underline I am sending you copies of correspondence which I have sent to Phillip , comma , Roger , comma , Oliver and Joe , which I hope is self explanatory , paragraph . |
| 14 | But like er , she took it sch to school and Scott was giving us a lift to school so did n't have to walk and she 's in the car and she 's going if this gets if this gets all smashed up Scott I hope you realise I 'm blaming you ! |
| 15 | I 'll just phone INCUBUS and say I 'm leaving them … |
| 16 | Say I 'm picking my nose |
| 17 | ‘ Not if some big flatfoot is just going to barge in on her and say I 'm shouting it all over town I was with her last night . ’ |
| 18 | Well it 's it 's say I say I was doing my best , as it were , say that everything was going swimmingly I 'd be getting a profit of thirty pounds from Neil twenty pounds from Alan because five will go on the tea and the milk and the box of Cornflakes and the toast er twenty , thirty , that 's fifty and twenty for Paul which is seventy . |
| 19 | The king 's writ ordering the archbishop to convene such an assembly contained the phrase mandamus … venirefaciatis , ‘ we command you are to make them come ’ , which was the wording of a common law writ used to compel attendance in a law court , before a royal judge . |
| 20 | ‘ Now I expect you 're wondering what this is all about . |
| 21 | ‘ I expect you 're wondering what you 've got . |
| 22 | And then they get bigger and they start thinking and watching and you realise you 're fouling them up yourself too and there 's not much you can do about that either . |
| 23 | Police at Calpe , near Benidorm , say she was washing her hair when the crazed killer struck . |
| 24 | ‘ I still say you are wasting your time . |
| 25 | If anyone asks who we are , you say you are having your house decorated . |
| 26 | If there is a vote , stay in that day and if anyone asks say you were washing your hair ! |
| 27 | I 'm going to phone the Rotunda and say we 're bringing her in now . ’ |
| 28 | You see where you say we 're holding them ? ’ |
| 29 | He ca n't do that to us now — not say we 're doing it and then say we 're not , and killing old Bones ! |
| 30 | His foster parents say they 're giving him a break from events back home . |