Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am fondling her like a memory , in the way you stroke a cat : knowing it 's there , glad it 's purring , but letting thoughts wander like your fingers tickling the fur . |
| 2 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 3 | No problem Mr Prospect , I 'm glad you feel that way however I am seeing you in a fortnight 's time , have a chat with him between then and now and when I see you next week I 'll ta or whenever the time 'll be , I 'll take his telephone number from you then . |
| 4 | I am doing them in a minute . |
| 5 | Meantime I am treating it as a double murder . ’ |
| 6 | So today I 'm taking them to a matinée . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm telling you as a fact that I 'm the only person in this industry who 's done it . |
| 8 | Well I 'm telling you for a fact that St |
| 9 | I 'm telling you for a fact that Steven wo n't touch you . |
| 10 | . So to work out how much energy you 're using is , how quickly am I using up energy , well I 'm using it at a rate of ten kilowatts . |
| 11 | No , it 's just Cherry 's I 'm borrowing it for a while . |
| 12 | Ca n't you stand the fact that I 'm seeing you as a fallible human being instead of the flawless cardboard cut-out you like to pretend to be ? ’ |
| 13 | I 'm not giving it to you out of charity , I 'm giving it as a present to my son . |
| 14 | Well I I know I 'm putting you under a bit of pressure here on the basis that erm it 's lovely to be able to have a choice . |
| 15 | Then the hotel ( ‘ Charlie sent us , ’ ) and the assistant manager drawing her to one side ( ‘ I 'm putting you in a suite for a couple of hours . |
| 16 | I 'm sure I 'm keeping you from a million other appointments . ’ |
| 17 | No , I 'm doing it for A level . |
| 18 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 19 | And I remember at the time , I was chasing you over a most ridiculous national press story that Emlyn did n't like the idea of you a pop singer appearing in one of his classics . |
| 20 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
| 21 | I was helping him across a busy six-lane road in north London . |
| 22 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't say I was taking you to a hotel , ’ he replied evenly . |
| 24 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |
| 25 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 26 | He put a solicitor down , and last time I spoke with him I was defending him on a for fraud . |
| 27 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 28 | The announcement managed to elevate the NT import to the level of a strategic operating system for DEC , which is embracing it as a ‘ corporate solution ’ , language rarely heard from DEC 's mouth unless it 's talking about VAX/VMS . |
| 29 | ‘ Nobody 's seen her for a week , and she 's not taken any of her stuff . ’ |
| 30 | She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income . |