Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive . |
| 2 | You 've been to see him have n't you ? |
| 3 | He said the thousands of get-well messages had been helping him recover from 17 days in a coma after a car crash . |
| 4 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 5 | David 's been helping me set up the I 've , I 've just bought myself a three eight six . |
| 6 | ‘ The Geophysical Observatory in Port Moresby have over the years provided us with very useful earthquake data and are helping us monitor the after shocks which are sill being felt in the Tari area . ’ |
| 7 | Secondly , children in care , we 're helping them get out of care as fast as they can , and we 're helping them get set up properly , with proper support and so on . |
| 8 | Secondly , children in care , we 're helping them get out of care as fast as they can , and we 're helping them get set up properly , with proper support and so on . |
| 9 | Now they 're helping us do exactly the same thing a couple of hundred years on . |
| 10 | I think they 're let us know what they 've done . |
| 11 | If we 're to help him get his magic back I 'm going to need to know just what he 's been up to . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing , nothing ; they 're to let me know , and they 'll likely do that on the day they say the war 's ended . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If the General says we 're to let you pass , then I 'll let you pass . ’ |
| 14 | but they 've had quite a good dinnertime today so I think they 're letting her stop a bit longer . |
| 15 | and she er she said what and she said oh well I do n't think I 'll phone Graham but if Maxine shows him the paper , she said I reckon he 'll phone them because er , it did say , I think in the paper that the , that she said they 're letting everybody know |
| 16 | You 're letting me run around like a headless fucking chicken while you 've got the one piece of information that could lead me straight to her ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't believe you 're letting him go . ’ |
| 18 | I 've got his statement and they 're letting him go . ’ |
| 19 | And they 're letting him keep linear . |
| 20 | ‘ If you keep trying to pretend he did n't exist , you 're letting him win . |
| 21 | ‘ You mean you 're letting them stay ? ’ asked Pam , surprised . |
| 22 | Patrol leader Captain David Hall said : ‘ We 're letting them know they can get food without instability . ’ |
| 23 | They 're letting it die ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And you 're letting it get out of hand . ’ |
| 25 | When you 're do it dry . |
| 26 | It 's like you 're making yourself believe . |
| 27 | ‘ I think men 's attitudes are changing because we 're making them change but most of the best jobs still go to the men . ’ |
| 28 | And what about the other eighty thousand who are paying it and you 're making them pay more ? |
| 29 | You are encouraging him , you 're making him feel he 's a great man with a message and it 's do or die . |
| 30 | You 're making me laugh . |