Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean for me they for me they should be drawing one each actually now . |
| 2 | You seemed to be drawing me like a magnet , and there was Claudine , anyway . ’ |
| 3 | AN actress old enough to be drawing her pension begged to play glamorous Scarlett O'Hara in a sequel to Gone With The Wind . |
| 4 | He seemed to be drawing her willing body towards his again , but this time she remembered her vow to resist him . |
| 5 | We shall be drawing our examples from the professional knowledge , not only of teachers , but of media specialists and librarians , because they have much to suggest to us , and because their contributions within schools and without are important to what can be attempted and achieved . |
| 6 | Timothy is hoping they 'll be smelling their best for the start of the show next Monday . |
| 7 | Skipper David Graveney said : ‘ We 'll be finalising our plans in the next couple of weeks . ’ |
| 8 | Should children with defective vision be resting their eyes ? |
| 9 | Instead David , a pupil at Larne Grammar School , will be resting his voice as opportunity does n't knock after all . |
| 10 | Erm it 's a hundred years of parish government really , and er I would have thought probably we 'll find out that the National Association of Local Councils will probably be organizing something we can erm erm you know , adhere to . |
| 11 | I mean , the same goes when the when they seem to be organizing something that |
| 12 | Er Our local reporter Caroline er will be contacting me with regard to any suggestions I may have on the editorial side . |
| 13 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 14 | Will you be contacting them ? ’ |
| 15 | Well I 'll be contacting them in the next fortnight er if and to make be able to pass on my card , I 'll leave you two cards so that they , they know to expect a phone call from myself . |
| 16 | I will be contacting their doctors so this whole episode will be conducted under medical supervision . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If that is the case then I shall be contacting my advisers . |
| 18 | I will be contacting you again after [ date ] when my client has had an opportunity to consider all indicative offers received . |
| 19 | I understand also that Scorton Tennis Club will be contacting you direct concerning financial aid towards tarmacing the present grass court and thus making it suitable for all weather use both by members of the club , visitors to the village and pupils of the village school . |
| 20 | ‘ I wo n't be contacting you again ! |
| 21 | I seem to be courting you ! |
| 22 | Er we ca n't tell them how to use the money , we presume they will do that , erm this is a significant increase on the amount that the Conservatives seem to be suggesting which is just I think deputy heads so there are a hundred and forty thousand er deputy heads to go . |
| 23 | because of a girl , I really think he 's loyal in that way , in that sense , because they are very close they have a laugh and I know when we 're with them they 're always like seem to be impressing everyone but I 'm sure when they 're together they have like , you know , human conversations , they must do , they ca n't always be talking about screwing and you know , which girls have got big tits and all that |
| 24 | Once his appearance has been changed to identify him with the group ( it may be dyeing his hair shocking pink or wearing a big badge ) , then not only will other people assume that he has agreed to all the ideas and implications of the movement but he himself will be more likely to feel this to be true , even to throw all doubt to the four winds without further investigation . |
| 25 | Mike , you 're supposed to be helping ours . |
| 26 | It 's more than enough that you should be helping me . ’ |
| 27 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 28 | Andrew was meant to be helping him and , hard-headed as usual , John Knox had put the supposedly spare clerk on other work . |
| 29 | The Church should not be helping him up , but helping him over : false optimism does not need a helping hand ; it needs firstly the truth , and secondly love to salve the lost illusions and move on to a fuller humanity ( Walker 1986 : 214 ) . |
| 30 | The man said he later went outside and saw a soldier lying on the road with others around him who seemed to be helping him or attending to him . |