Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [be] [v-ing] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 2 | I felt the world beginning to drift into the distance again , but I knew what was happening this time and got my head down quickly . |
| 3 | I phoned the Edinburgh office again the nex and I thought I 'm giving this up I 'm gon na write |
| 4 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |
| 5 | She imagined she was cupping this white-hot power in her womb , and that the walls of it contained the fire . |
| 6 | This sight brought her immediately down from her high , tragic pinnacle and made it seem all somehow cosier , as she thought she was sharing this music with such a wise and friendly dog . |
| 7 | She knew she was handling this badly , acting like a fool , making a scene because she could n't face the pretence , could n't face having to stifle her feelings , her crazy and immature hopes — hopes that would always be doomed to failure where a man like Luke Denner was concerned . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He said they 're doing this as well . |
| 10 | He said ooh , he said there was some American students here last week and they were all swimming in there and the man came along with this thing and they bo they were all sat on the middle lo middle of there with their feet dangling in the water splashing away , he said I was dragging this down and this six footer came out , I said , and then they were he said , you 've never seen anybody run so fast in your life like they go |