Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PARLIAMENT has been reminding me this past week of some scenes from the musical Paint Your Wagon . |
| 2 | You have n't been seeing him regular ? ’ |
| 3 | And you 've been eating it all this time ! |
| 4 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 5 | Could of been using me French |
| 6 | I 've been using it all the time . |
| 7 | If you are encouraging them all the time to consider propositions or arguments and then what evidence has been marshalled in support and the like , then you want them to come out like that … . |
| 8 | Psychobiology is particularly exciting at the moment because advances in instrumentation are bringing us new ways of studying the brain while areas like artificial intelligence are providing new ways of thinking about how it might work as the ‘ organ of behaviour ’ . |
| 9 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 10 | out my nails look , I been scrubbing it everyday . |
| 11 | ‘ Piper , ’ Sid 's voice from the back of his trench sounded agitated , ‘ I 'm knackered , and these bloody mauses are eating me alive ! |
| 12 | They are transcribing it all , it runs into millions , but I can never remember how many millions . |
| 13 | They want to assert that homosexual relationships are just as valid as heterosexual ones and that it is perfectly ‘ natural ’ for some people to be homosexual if their inclination is in that direction and that those who profess distaste for homosexuality are denying them human rights . |
| 14 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 15 | You 've been driving me crazy , but now I 'm going to have your body , and if it 's the last time then so be it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Sweetheart , you 're so beautiful … you 've been driving me crazy … ’ |
| 17 | They 've been driving me mad ever since I moved in , but as soon as I come out with a gun they all disappear . |
| 18 | I am keeping them alive in my heart and I want you all to do the same . ’ |
| 19 | They are keeping them buoyant . ’ |
| 20 | At present the river is quite exciting because the spring rains are keeping it high . |
| 21 | ‘ The police are keeping it quiet , or trying to . |
| 22 | ‘ The flies are driving me mad . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You two are driving me mad ! ’ |
| 24 | These drivers are driving me mad |
| 25 | ‘ If your husband is glancing sideways at younger women , your elderly parents are driving you mad and your daughter looks now how you would like to look , HRT will not magically put your world to rights . |
| 26 | It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in . |
| 27 | Big fucking deal , we thought , we 'd been robbing them blind |
| 28 | The army are faxing me regimental lists , so we might be able to track down a contemporary or two . ’ |
| 29 | I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week . |
| 30 | Paddy said , ‘ He 's been insulting me a' night . ’ |