Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 2 | The Open Software Foundation and Unix International as well as Sun Microsystems Inc are already using it as base technology . |
| 3 | Yeah and you wo n't if , do you , wo n't have to tell 'em what you 're getting for doing it , you 're just , you 're just doing it for interest so to speak |
| 4 | ‘ We 're still developing it for use with seedlings and delicate plants , ’ says Stuart , ‘ but we 're certain it has tremendous potential . ’ |
| 5 | it 's not as if you 're like selling them at cost and making a few pence because |
| 6 | Whe when they 're actually describing something like homework oh that 's cool , they do n't really mean it as good , or do they ? |
| 7 | Now the tory party are forever lecturing us about choice are they not . |
| 8 | ‘ We are still investigating them at present and have not ruled them out . ’ |
| 9 | By now you are probably receiving lots of Christmas cards . |
| 10 | Confirming that the dead boy was James Bulger , who disappeared while out shopping with his mother on Friday , a police spokesman said a post-mortem examination had established the cause of death , but would give no details other than to say : ‘ We are now treating it as murder . ’ |
| 11 | He wanted it to be a surprise for you , and I 'm only telling you in advance in case — in case you should think it might have been me . " |
| 12 | And to be fair to you I 'm again going to give you a few minutes to talk about that , not quite as long as the other time , then I 'll ask you to jot a couple of things down as well as , so I 'm just telling you in advance . |
| 13 | I keep doing it wrong so I gave up and I 'm just covering it with purple . |
| 14 | The elder was behaving as if parties of white women were constantly presenting him with gunpowder . |
| 15 | Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored . |
| 16 | The women reported other significant changes in their lives — by the end of the sessions , none of them were intentionally depriving themselves of food and all were eating regular meals . |
| 17 | You 're gon na paint them exactly as you would if you were just doing it on paper alright ? |
| 18 | People were always taking him in hand , hoping to reform him , to make him conform to their own self-centred ideal of what he should be . |
| 19 | Margaret Jones : ‘ I remember David asked me to get my dressmaker to taper his trousers and before long other members of his form were also getting me to taper their trousers , so I suppose in a way I was almost helping them to rebel against Mr Frampton . ’ |
| 20 | As his new Control explained , the faction of the Lebanese Forces involved in the aborted Contra arms-for-drugs deal in 1985 were known to have members who were DEA CIs , and they were probably tracking him through credit reports , listing his current address , employer and so forth , obtained through Bank Audi , a Beirut bank with a branch in New York . |
| 21 | We were actually presenting it in conjunction with that soft-drinks company , our three best DJs the compères . ’ |
| 22 | Police are again urging anyone with information to come forward . |
| 23 | This is because the horse is physically preparing himself for action — running , fighting , playing , courtship etc . |
| 24 | This is just asking us for permission for them to apply for planning permission . |
| 25 | History is already repeating itself as farce in Beijing a year after the massacre . |
| 26 | They say the first-ever Friars TSB Team Challenge in Bangor on July 3 is already attracting lots of support . |
| 27 | It 's just getting them with access that 's the problem . |
| 28 | so , if , if , if they 're all four of them coming er and she says about going in for a meal I shall say oh well if you feel like it go and do that then and come for your tea I mean it 's just putting them round table is n't it ? |
| 29 | I do n't think that 's respecting or liking women , that 's just making them as sex objects ! |
| 30 | I mean like Nicola 's probably saying it on purpose though anyway . |