Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [v-ing] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Miss Mitchell , On the instructions of my client , Mr Marius Steen , I am sending you the enclosed letter . |
| 2 | Well on , I do it the right way , because I do n't always feel that I am doing it the right way . |
| 3 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 4 | I 'm reading him the Greek myths at bedtime and I just hope when we get to Oedipus the penny will drop . |
| 5 | I 'm writing it the same as she writes her book . |
| 6 | Thank you very much indeed for the smelly duck — or should I say scented , it is such a nice smell ! — and for the pretty scarf which , you may be surprised to hear , Mark admired when I was wearing it the other day though he had n't realized it was new and from you ! |
| 7 | I was teaching them the fine art of drinking Tequila Slammers , one of the fastest ways of getting spifflicated known to man . |
| 8 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 9 | Erm I 'm , I admit er that that was one I just bolted simply because I was taking it the wrong way round , I thought we had identified what was the priority , life insurance , P H I and pensions and was summarizing it whereas I should 've realized we 're doing that page towards the priority |
| 10 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 11 | On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel . |
| 12 | I was doing it the other day yes . |
| 13 | At 60,000 feet it was harder to tell which was giving me the better high : the puppy poo , the Beastie Boys album or the Cessna . |
| 14 | ‘ You are serving us the fermented grapes from Noah 's vines ? ’ |
| 15 | And at only 70 calories per generous serving of plain boiled rice , you know you are giving them the healthy option . |
| 16 | Check it somewhere that you 're writing it the right way |
| 17 | You 're giving them the perfect opportunity to cut in again . ’ |
| 18 | No , certain obstacles and areas where you feel you 're not er giving , you know you do n't feel as though you 're doing it the best for whatever reason . |
| 19 | And you were telling me the other clubs men men had |
| 20 | 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time . |
| 21 | I thought you were calling me the bearded wonder then . |
| 22 | Who do you think was making the audience laugh while you were giving them the full force of your personality ? |
| 23 | She 's got that unappetizing little Yank in tow , and she 's feeding him the Authorized Version . |
| 24 | She 's recording it the stupid cow she 's |
| 25 | She was telling me the other day . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
| 27 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll have your name , and I 'll see that lady who was telling me the other day that Brownie girls do n't raid orchards . ’ |
| 29 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 30 | All Home Risks policies set out the cover for BUILDINGS , whether or not this cover is currently in force , so we are sending you the new wording , which you should keep with your policy . |