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Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [v-ing] [det] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ What do you think I 'm doing all this for ?
2	What the hell do you think I 'm doing all this for ?
3	Then she found she was doing all this already , and a sigh of utter contentment shivered through her .
4	‘ I expect you 're finding this real-life mystery quite useful for a plot , are n't you ? ’
5	As he followed her from the room , he said , ‘ Has he been using any new chemicals ? ’
6	What would you do if some man out there in the anonymous darkness of the audience fell under the spell you create so skilfully and believed you were singing those sensuous songs just for him ? ’
7	‘ Richard says you 're doing such marvellous work with your old people .
8	I hope you 're taking all this down , Constable . ’
9	She imagined she was cupping this white-hot power in her womb , and that the walls of it contained the fire .
10	But i I did feel it was airing those possible scenarios to get a reaction and I think the forty minutes we 've had discussing that have been extremely valuable as far as we 're concerned .
11	‘ I do n't believe I 'm hearing all this .
12	Erm well first , I mean I 'm sorry to hear you 're keeping some bad company Stephen bad news .
13	‘ But you were looking so absorbed that I guessed you were admiring that wonderful bureau . ’
14	She must have thought she was using some magic password known only to the foreigners who drank this strange golden liquid in preference to kava .
15	Well I do it probably was actually but it was the switch that had gone , maybe lightning had hopped across the switch , yeah , but erm , that 's all it was it was the switch , but er , I mean the thing is it went wrong and they had to pay for it , okay it 's only a tenner to have it done , but it , if a C D player , I mean if the carriage goes , you know , sixty , seventy quid , you know I 'm buying these electrical things , it 's , because it 's a burg lock , I can buy them , get them a warranty with it an'all , then it 's took the burden off them .
16	If you work if you work on a quarter page at three ninety and cos remember you 're telling all this on the phone .
17	You know , while you 're away ironing you 're doing this all the time .
18	I know he 's starting all these things , see his computers and that ?
19	I suppose I was remembering all those tests I had so long ago , all those nasty little operations — ’ Irene broke off , looking intently into her cup of coffee , as if it were to blame .
20	‘ I find I 'm discussing all these issues with my male friends — How do you feel about being a man ?
21	Yes and when I came to , as I was saying we were clearing all half of .
22	They 're What do you think they 're doing all this firing on us right now .
23	I knew I was taking some rare old stick mentally , though .
24	Oh , I thought you were making those quick biscuits
25	Out of the many false starts her life had made she felt they were witnessing this pure beginning that she would seize and make true .
26	I had to accept the fact that he was an individualist , and that for him the only tolerable war was one in which he felt he was making some personal contribution — personal , but never ‘ glory-seeking ’ , as he had made clear in 1940 , not least by being prepared to postpone obtaining his commission .
27	Sharpe knew he was seeing much more than a cavalry raid , though he was not certain whether this was the real invasion .
28	I mean it was taking that whole Swiss thing and saying that okay these are the new rules , whereas The Guardian accepts some of the old rules .
29	You think I 'm inventing all this , seeing shadows behind every door , right ? ’
30	Erm it 's for it 's it 's in order that , that in the nineties we have a historical record , I think I 'm I think I 'm saying this right , there is a historical record of the kind of words that are being introduced into the into our language into our vocabulary like for example i.e.