Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] be [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says everyone is talking about the new store . ’ |
| 2 | I remember one teacher retiring several years ago in Nottingham said to me er he says I 'm sticking with the Nationwide , me . |
| 3 | ‘ He says you are trespassing on the land belonging to the Maker of Clouds . |
| 4 | You know is going forward to a week on Sunday and then whatever else happens we 're going through the process are n't we ? |
| 5 | Who says we 're living in the past ? |
| 6 | ‘ Anyone who says they are coping with the Gulf without sleepless nights is telling lies ; it 's amazing how far you can stretch yourself , but it hurts sometimes . ’ |
| 7 | A female Canadian relative of mine says they are suffering in the same way . |
| 8 | He 's got a , they 're all talking about me , he says they 're listening at the walls or standing in the clossies |
| 9 | Mr. says he 's looking into the matter . |
| 10 | Every time I see him he says he 's going to the police . ’ |
| 11 | Well he says he 's going to the , he said he was going to the on Friday and they would be finished by Friday . |
| 12 | he says he was going by the horse like |
| 13 | She says it 's going down the drain . |
| 14 | They 're not to write it on letter heading cos it means it says it 's coming from the London . |
| 15 | Even when published , aspects of APPN networking remain covered by IBM patents , and Data Connection says it is negotiating with the mainframe manufacturer and hopes to have this sorted out in time for the InterOp show later this month . |
| 16 | He says it was flicking through the frequencies when it locked onto a call and he recognised the voice as Diana . |
| 17 | So-called new information is what the speaker assumes he is introducing into the addressee 's consciousness by what he says . |
| 18 | What concerns me is looking at the and trying to forge new creative links with other organisations , statutory and voluntary , in the best health interests of Oxfordshire residents . |
| 19 | Stripped film from the security camera that videos customers in the Praed Street shop , Took away the staff roster , which reveals who was working on the crucial day , Removed the shop 's till rolls , Attempted to pursuade the female member of staff to forget Mr Onanuga told her he served Mr Lamont on the Monday , and Refused to allow the woman to keep a copy of her signed statement because , it said , it could be handed to a newspaper . |
| 20 | Surely it can not be long before the Football League discovers what is festering in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League sewer . |
| 21 | ‘ Everyone thinks we 're going to the barn — ’ |
| 22 | At certain points in the tale he stops and takes what is happening as the starting-point for a wander along lanes of quasi-anthropological speculation about the problems of the American male ( and , by extension , of ‘ civilised ’ men everywhere ) . |
| 23 | Researchers have been observing their habits , and it seems they 're thriving in the countryside . |
| 24 | And then suddenly , for no reason at all , he finds he is thinking of the Pyramids . |
| 25 | more or , is more or less is realized in a dream she has , just before she leaves Thornfield Hall , erm in which she dreams she 's lying in the red room again |
| 26 | He dreams he is sitting at the wheel of his car at the traffic lights , unable to drive off because he ca n't decide whether to kiss Rose when he arrives , or whether to ask her for a cheese and chutney sandwich instead , or where to go for his holidays . |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that even if one ignores what is happening in the former USSR , there are other countries in the world that are potential aggressors and which either have nuclear capacity or may be near to acquiring it ? |
| 28 | For good measure , and , presumably in case anybody thinks he is indulging in the negative campaigning we have all been hearing so much about , he praises the Lib Dems as offering a ‘ more egalitarian , democratic and ecologically responsible [ manifesto ] than Labour 's ’ . |
| 29 | He thinks he 's working with the Mafia . ’ |
| 30 | I bet Alex wishes he was going to the pantomime today . |