Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I says I 'm very sorry but I says it 's six miles away in a store , we do n't attend stores in the evening , I 've nobody to come d I 've got Where the hell do you think I 'm going to sleep tonight ? |
| 2 | When I say that I mean I 'm operating without back-up . |
| 3 | And I mean I 'm talking in matter of a few thousand pounds , to do for for a whole year . |
| 4 | Every time he sees me he thinks I 'm going to sleep with him and I do n't want to . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't say I care for the idea of you two discussing me behind my back , but if you must know I was suffering from reaction , ’ said Leonora with dignity . |
| 6 | But I did n't know I was going to sleep there , either . ’ |
| 7 | I told you he does n't know I 'm going to work for Matthew . |
| 8 | Or or catch all scapegoat when there are these other factors involved which are contributing to health problems |
| 9 | ‘ You mean , ’ observed Tim sagaciously , ‘ she does n't know you 're bunking off school . ’ |
| 10 | I did n't know you were talking about bread . |
| 11 | The ‘ Delirium mix ’ is as much as could be expected — but not at all disappointing — with the original ingredients rinsed out through stringy synths and a shipment of cosmic awareness ( loads of that in our house ) whilst the ‘ In Dub Mix ’ works up through minimal effects before an unexpected dub bassline rumbles in and you realise you 're travelling at half-speed . |
| 12 | So how come you were working with gaffer ? |
| 13 | On the trains no problems , East Midlands Airport say everything 's running to time , in the city centre no huge delays anywhere , on the motorways they 're all okay as well , on the A One there 's major work just started on the roundabout , that 's the er five lanes end roundabout affecting southbound traffic , there are long delays there in peak times , that 's at er five lane ends , the work there on the A One just started , that 's the Roundabout , southbound traffic is being affected , there are long delays there . |
| 14 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 15 | She had completely forgotten they were looking for Garry — she had them deep in a holiday romance . |
| 16 | Now having been discharged they 're convalescing from surgery with a family in Oxfordshire away from the glare of publicity . |
| 17 | Medical campaigners say they 're fighting for quality of life . |
| 18 | Rebels say they are heading for victory |
| 19 | The result of the partnership will be an Electronic Software Licensing NetWare Loadable Module , but in addition the companies say they are working on developer tools that will give software authors access to the services needed to build licence-enabled NetWare applications . |
| 20 | Mills and Poole admit fighting with Wiltshire , but say they were acting in self defence . |
| 21 | A man accused of murdering one pub customer and injuring another , has claimed he was acting in self defence . |
| 22 | Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology . |
| 23 | ‘ Now , has anyone been working at home ? ’ the tutor asked at lunchtime . |
| 24 | I went into the garden and I found it was pouring with ram- . |
| 25 | They say he was looking for evidence of natura naturans ‘ all-creating nature ’ , rather than natura naturata , ‘ the made world ’ ; in certain seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing of unimpeachable orthodoxy reference is made to anima mundi , a spirit pervading the world and supplying the continuing presence of God . |
| 26 | He said that they sounded all right , but that he would like to know what was happening in practice . |
| 27 | The number of voters who found what was happening in politics ‘ very interesting ’ dropped sharply between our pre-campaign week ( when Thatcher was in Moscow and Kinnock newly returned from Washington ) and the campaign itself . |
| 28 | 'E 's got four lorries in there now an' I did 'ear 'e was lookin' fer anuvver place . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , it so happens I 'm going to town in the morning , ’ he said . |
| 30 | One she 'd made herself : a black and white Mae West wearing the smile that says I 'm gon na eatcha and you 're gon na love it , big boy . |