Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , well I 'm , I 'm just in the middle of , I 'm sign writing a vehicle and I 'm half way through the letters and I 've got a , I 've got ta finish that off before I can get into my stock . |
| 2 | When I was filmed wearing a bikini , it had to have two lower halves . |
| 3 | When you are in the lower echelons of any service , you are left guessing a lot of the time . |
| 4 | The account also shows , in similar fashion , that you know that if you are sitting reading a philosophy book , you are not a brain a vat . |
| 5 | Suppose that you claim to know that you are sitting reading a book . |
| 6 | However the argument does nothing to suggest that you do not understand the proposition that you are sitting reading a book . |
| 7 | reckon if you 're seen carrying a knife again , then there 's only one clear alternative for you and you 've got to know what that is . |
| 8 | It just it just takes the edge off it so it is a good tip actually it 's just if you 've time beforehand is just even as you were saying producing a thought pattern like this even just doing the first level just in pencil . |
| 9 | WPC Helen Smith has been banned from cell duties after she was seen getting a shoulder massage from one prisoner . |
| 10 | She was left holding a jelly baby of shrivelled skin , her fingers glued together , webbed by a sticky emission . |
| 11 | But erm , funnily enough I I I was out erm , on Saturday evening , and by a strange coincidence , er , where we were sitting having a meal , erm , in the restaurant , erm , someone came in and joined us , we saw , some friends of ours , and he is a sociologist from the University . |
| 12 | They are discussing organising a barbecue and disco for after the Mass . |
| 13 | They were recorded using a Panasonic WV-CD1E miniature video camera fixed to the bonnet of the car directly in line with the driver and approximately 10cm in front of the bottom of the windscreen . |
| 14 | After that there is no more and the accounts cease until January 1898 when they were balanced showing a credit of £2:12:7½ . |
| 15 | At first sight it would seem he has , for here he is seen wearing a UTV hat , sporting a BBC badge , and standing beside Belfast Community Radio 's 96.7 sign . |
| 16 | He is shown receiving a cheque from Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive . |
| 17 | McMeekin went on a drinking spree in Darlington and ended in Presto , where he was seen hiding a bottle of Southern Comfort under his jacket . |
| 18 | First , in November he was seen sporting a badge saying ‘ Birmingham — European Summit 1992 . ’ |
| 19 | When Mr Boesky arrived at the Brooklyn centre earlier this week , he was seen wearing a suit , carrying a duffel bag and with his hair short and his face shaven , although the sleek look of his heyday in the early eighties was gone . |
| 20 | And he was shown wearing a pair of collosal flared jeans that left one simply astonished . |
| 21 | He was finding walking a chore so we left him , following the river inland towards its glacial snout source . |
| 22 | Sobbing , Pc Kelly said : ‘ The next thing I saw , he was standing holding a gun with both hands in what I can only describe as a combat position . ’ |
| 23 | The next thing I saw , he was standing holding a gun with both hands in what I can only describe as a combat position . ’ |