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Example sentences of "[prep] be [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I 'd kind of been hoping they 'd take the cuffs off me altogether by now but I suppose they 're thinking that the body in the shaft does n't prove anything by itself , and that Andy could still be dead , or he could be alive and he — or somebody else — could have kidnapped Halziel and Lingary to provide cover for me .
2	Could of been using me French
3	he would n't of been touching it with this .
4	lots of mums will ask about their baby 's feet , do you think there 's anything wrong with this , and they 'll sort of be holding their feet sort of wiggling them around , doing this , that and the other
5	The best Korf could think of was leaving everything to the provincial gentry , which Alexander had tried without success in his Moscow speech of March 1856 .
6	But when I looked up and saw you , all I could think of was holding you , kissing you — ’
7	All I 'm concerned with is handin' her over to her rightful parent or whoever 's goin' to take responsibility for her . ’
8	All they are concerned with is keeping their own jobs . ’
9	She was entirely unaware that the man she was with was watching her enchanted face and not the spectacle she was so taken with .
10	‘ To witch a mother 's face as they 're read back to her , even though she 's read them for herself … the parent I was sitting with was shaking her head and crying .
11	Calling this effort a ‘ challenge ’ , Sunsoft claims the trouble it ran into was deciding which device drivers and peripherals to support , ‘ Intel has done its best to standardise on device drivers and peripherals , but the dilemma lies in which ones to choose . ’
12	All I 'm really interested in is receiving your cheque for my repair bill . ’
13	An attractive young blonde I had n't seen before was offering me a joint .
14	But , as usual , what Mr Gummer was most interested in was sharing his recipe for spit-roasting members of the Opposition .
15	‘ Up to that point , all I was interested in was relieving myself any way I could , and the women were throwing themselves at me and it was great , it was pleasurable , no problem .
16	On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania .
17	Those who said they ‘ liked ’ or ‘ did n't mind ’ housework seemed to be asserting their attachment to the norms of feminine satisfaction with housewifery .
18	For a second or two his eyes seemed to be searching her as he glanced at her dark , tightly fixed hair , her face , her shoulders and her long neck .
19	Constructive ideals of training and rehabilitation were translated into penal policies that appeared to be meeting their objectives .
20	The passage of measures of social and economic reform appeared to be meeting their needs .
21	‘ Yes , ’ she replies eagerly , ‘ someone from the British Committee is supposed to be meeting me . ’
22	‘ Julian was meant to be meeting me . ’
23	I thought she was going to be meeting him next weekend then ?
24	You 're supposed to be meeting her in Paris tomorrow , are n't you ? ’
25	Someone from the Banco D'Oro was supposed to be meeting her , and this remote blond god certainly did n't look like a bank official — though he might have been Signor Corosini .
26	‘ I 'm supposed to be meeting your family incognito , ’ she complained .
27	I was meant to be meeting someone too . ’
28	By the time Ellie did finally remember she was supposed to be meeting someone in Dublin , the afternoon was well advanced .
29	Martinez , another Spaniard , has been rising steadily for years and seems to be reaching her peak after a great three-set victory over Sabatini in the Rome final this month .
30	To return to my Degas quote : many of the writers seem to be appropriating what they see as ‘ feminist tools of socio-political deconstruction ’ by examining details of Degas ' work according to a binary opposition of woman as object/man as Baudelairean flaneur .