Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm not following you any more , I thought . |
| 32 | Yeah I mean when I saw her round the park she said oh I 'm really enjoying it this |
| 33 | I 'm only telling you this because … well , it 's obvious who killed Mills . |
| 34 | ‘ I 'm only telling you these things because I like you , Claudia . |
| 35 | ‘ I 'm forever telling you that . ’ |
| 36 | So he says oh I said I were n't taking you this week . |
| 37 | I were n't doing it all although I sort of organized it . |
| 38 | ‘ He told me , ’ said Ray , ‘ that I was n't doing him any good , two depressives together . |
| 39 | I was told by their breeder that I was n't giving them enough protein . |
| 40 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 41 | You 're just setting us all up to behave like nuts . |
| 42 | ‘ Dorothy , I do n't know quite how to put this , but is there something you 're not telling me that might help me understand this a bit better . |
| 43 | You 're not telling me this Council driver ca n't go any quicker cos he 'll try to get back to before , before twelve o'clock |
| 44 | You 're not doing it all are you ? |
| 45 | and you sort of say , do you think it would be useful if we talked about reception because that 's something y you 're not doing quite as frequently but it 's obviously , it must be difficult for you to fit in to that because you 're not doing it all the time . |
| 46 | So you 're really clobbering them both ways , are n't you ? |
| 47 | →Yeah , but you 're only giving us half the story . |
| 48 | ‘ I thought you were n't seeing him any more . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ You were about to tell me some bad news . ’ |
| 50 | So we 'd have that but she 's already cut them all up into twelfths so how many twelfths how many twelfths would we get each ? |
| 51 | ‘ Yes of course I believe you , but I 'd just like to make sure she 's really expecting you all . ’ |
| 52 | My sister makes lots of preserves and she 's always giving me some . ’ |
| 53 | " She 's left me some money and all her furniture and things , " Sara went on , " but she 's only left me half the house . " |
| 54 | She turned , suddenly uneasy in his company , so that she was n't facing him any more , and watched the stormy lake . |
| 55 | Her story was plastered all over the December issue of Playboy and every time he switched on the television , she was there repeating it all as a multitude of chat-show hosts clamoured to get her on their programmes . |
| 56 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 57 | But we 're not handling them any better . |
| 58 | And erm you know er sometimes I 'm sorry that it 's come to this because like this family er they made a bomb out of it we 're not saying that we 're not denying them that at all . |
| 59 | ‘ I 'm so bloody glad we 're not doing it this time , ’ he said . |
| 60 | With the possible exception of Mrs Major , who has to struggle not to look cheerful at the mention of leaving 10 Downing Street , and Sir Denis Thatcher ( ’ I 'm so bloody glad we 're not doing it this time ’ ) , every good political consort must learn how to be a good loser . |