Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July . |
| 2 | Twenty per cent of the crop is still in the ground and growers are having difficulty digging it out in the wet conditions … so it remains to be seen if the present glut will last . |
| 3 | I 'm having trouble picturing it . ’ |
| 4 | Could it have been Sitting Bull warning me about the distortion of Indian history in Hollywood films ? |
| 5 | The woman on the screen frowned as if she were having difficulty seeing them . |
| 6 | The patriots were having trouble holding her fast . |
| 7 | Masturbation — men were more turned-on watching women masturbate than women were watching men doing it . |
| 8 | If we were to decriminalize drug taking we would probably go a long way down the road to solving the problem . |
| 9 | Keith Atkinson , Darlington 's head of environmental health , said food outlets throughout the town had been sent letters telling them to register before April 3 . |
| 10 | Erm the alchemist is conning people promising them that he 'll turn base metals into gold . |
| 11 | I am a pawn and bishop down after 12 moves , but have only half an eye on the game now , which seems to make me play better , or Sergei play worse , for he has pushed up his queen too far and is having trouble defending it . |
| 12 | I mean I 'm I mean for me the issues is avoiding guilt tripping them , but at the same time erm I want them to know erm that they are real children who are being really affected and hurt and damaged and losing their parents as a result of this war , and that is a hurtful thing to know . |
| 13 | FEARS that city bedsits could become death-traps have been raised , amid reports that the Government is to scrap laws governing them . |
| 14 | While I am sure that there may indeed be any number of genuine psychics and astrologers who can do precisely what they claim in this field , what is to prevent charlatans telling you that you were a Roman gladiator , a druid or even Napoleon ? |
| 15 | I remember Robert Hewitt who was racing secretary telling me before the meeting . |
| 16 | But by the second day of the adventure , her escort was having trouble getting her out of the pool . |
| 17 | He was having trouble playing it down , with a full-scale sex scandal to contend with . |
| 18 | He spent a world record £13m on Gianluigi Lentini last year and some observers say it was to stop others having him , not because Milan needed him . |