Example sentences of "be [pron] [adj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or am I just imagining all this , Ludens sometimes wondered . |
| 2 | The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? " |
| 3 | Why am I even discussing it ? ’ |
| 4 | Am I comfortable using flattery , guilt and fear as persuasion triggers ? |
| 5 | Are you still seeing that Robbie Felton ? ’ |
| 6 | Are you still having those conversations with Marcus ? ’ |
| 7 | Then why are you still doing them ? |
| 8 | Are you okay multiplying fractions ? |
| 9 | Why are you cut establishing a budget below the that capping level ? |
| 10 | Did you decide to eat it , or are you just taking it because it 's there … ? |
| 11 | The prize for Best Car Park Love Song went to Patsy Hubcap , known as ‘ the nightingale of pay-and-display ’ , for her poignant number , Are You Just Leaving ? |
| 12 | Or are you just protesting for form 's sake ? |
| 13 | Are you just giving up claims connected with your dismissal or any claim of any sort ? |
| 14 | Or are you just gritting your teeth waiting for the neighbours to turn the stereo on full blast or start a spot of DIY ? |
| 15 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 16 | Am I even a little bit — beautiful , or are you just saying it to make me open up ? ’ |
| 17 | Are you just stirring it , or is there something I should be doing ? ’ |
| 18 | Are you just going home , Miss O'Brien ? |
| 19 | Or are you just going to get a change of gear and go off again on your merry way ? ’ |
| 20 | Are you just going to sit there and stare out of the bloody window ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So am I going to be rewarded with an explanation , ’ he growled , ‘ or are you just going to stand there sipping that damn punch all evening ? ’ |
| 22 | Now — are we going to get on with planning this party , or are you just going to sit there and make stupid remarks ? ’ |
| 23 | What are you busy doing ? |
| 24 | And here 's Chrissie fucking he says , aye he says , and he says where are you fucking getting the meat from , from the back of a lorry ! |
| 25 | In the film there would have been something terrible awaiting him . |
| 26 | ‘ Well … are we just going to sit here waiting … or what ? ’ |
| 27 | ’ Are we just going to go evading ? ’ |
| 28 | Are there other pushing agencies available , and if so will they push in the same direction ? |
| 29 | The implications of this for the relation between how and the infinitive are exactly the same as with need and dare : if the means of realizing the infinitive 's event are not felt to exist , then there is felt to be nothing real occupying the before-position which real means always occupy with respect to the end pursued , and therefore no to preceding the infinitive . |
| 30 | With my father agreeing to give me £2,000 , and adding , ‘ This is the third plane ticket I 've bought for that man ’ , I flew back to England and finished painting the house white , thanking God that I liked the art nouveau and Edwardian furniture David had been buying , because otherwise it could have been tricky , having received the letter and realising that it might actually be love , it might actually be something serious going on . |