Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Has someone been spreading malicious gossip ? ’ he asked innocently , and reached for her hand . |
| 2 | Has someone been telling her what I did to the bald whores ? |
| 3 | I think really I need to say that that someone been creating happens to be that they 're not sold off and |
| 4 | ‘ Someone been smoking whacky baccy again ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Sergeant , ’ said Alice , ‘ had someone been phoning Mary ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why , has someone been saying you 're not ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Has someone been talking to you ? |
| 8 | But if someone were hiding here , would you have been likely to have seen him ? ’ |
| 9 | Actually someone were telling me |
| 10 | There 's no real hurry , it 's not till 11.30 ) chatting brightly to hide the hollow empty absence of anything at all in the way of feeling , and kept my eyes off Toby 's face which had a look on it as if someone were dragging his insides out . |
| 11 | The world got clearer , as if someone were twiddling the focus of her retinae . |
| 12 | His voice sounded odd to him , as if someone were speaking for him . |
| 13 | The abbreviation as it travelled around the dot board , sounded as if someone were reading a map accordion-folded between Africa and India . |
| 14 | It was almost as if someone were keeping her away from trouble . |
| 15 | You brought up the special point there , really that , that when someone 's watching football match I think you said |
| 16 | And , someone 's watching you . |
| 17 | Someone 's mispending de cash |
| 18 | ‘ Someone 's bringing us down gently , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Someone 's bringing his bucket to a dry well . ’ |
| 20 | Surfwear brands like Quicksilver , Billabong and Gotcha all sell here — they 're so well established — but if someone 's wearing a name like Fat Willys , then you know they 're a joke surfer . ’ |
| 21 | in our time lary meant someone 's wearing a sort of bright green an |
| 22 | A story is when someone 's trying to do something , and someone 's trying to stop him . |
| 23 | A story is when someone 's trying to do something , and someone 's trying to stop him . |
| 24 | Maybe someone 's trying to tell me that I would be happier doing something else . ’ ’ |
| 25 | cos the ships rolling like this , and someone 's trying to take a bearing , it 's quite difficult at sea , but they get a , they do , they get very good at tacking fairly accurately . |
| 26 | Someone 's trying to get into the toilet with dad |
| 27 | I know , we 've got , we 've got hardly any crayons left , I think someone 's eating them ! |
| 28 | Someone 's telling you the answers and you 're thinking , Well okay it must be right knows what he 's doing he 's a teacher right okay I 'll put it down . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she said , ‘ but I prefer not to chat while someone 's singing . |
| 30 | They pushed through the padded door , back towards the dining room , and Miranda confided , ‘ When I 'm really on the breadline and someone 's taking me out , I sometimes tell them I have n't any change for Madame Pipi — they give me something . |