Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun prp] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well my Aunt Jenny was saying |
| 2 | ‘ As I 'm supposed to be helping you with Ana , ’ she said quietly , ‘ I should perhaps tell you that in my opinion Mitch is falling in love with her . ’ |
| 3 | Sorry Mr Allenby I Mr Earle was shaking his head there . |
| 4 | We have semi-skimmed milk but I 'm thinking of switching to skimmed milk because my husband Chris is trying to cut down on fat . |
| 5 | My friend Willi is going to have severe trouble with this one , he thought . |
| 6 | My wife Terrie was feeling seasick . |
| 7 | Beca because it was focus ma my concern Dave was wanting |
| 8 | When she saw the post of maid in general to Esther Ward advertised , she used all her powers of persuasion to convince Tilly that it would only be for a very short time : ‘ Just so I know how he is … how my daughter Beth is faring . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What My Lord Douglas is saying , ’ d'Aubigny said meaningfully , ‘ is that the Queen hid herself away , first in Stirling , then in other castles . |
| 10 | As part of its contract Wimpey is developing a database on groundwater and landfill gas in the London area . |
| 11 | In contrast to Clare , her sister Miranda was leading the fast and frivolous life of the exciting sixties as Britain launched into the first real business boom since Hitler 's war . |
| 12 | At the level of street violence and contempt for democratic opinion , towards which William Joyce was urging it , the BUF would get far more sensational publicity in future . |
| 13 | Long before she had come to the end of her story Charlie was saying , ‘ You 're a wonder , Becky Salmon , a positive wonder . ’ |
| 14 | His later declarations were filled with similar anger at the way in which Muhammad Reza was substituting Western values for the Islamic tradition in Iran . |
| 15 | All the while she eyed him , somewhere in the back of her mind Tabitha was thinking , Twenty-four hours . |
| 16 | THERE are still a few places left on the pilgrimage to the Holy Land which Marie Stormont is organising on behalf of the Tour Company . |
| 17 | It was not until I was at a conference at which Jean Darnall was speaking that I saw the need to ask others to pray for me . |
| 18 | This is not the sort of complaint one would expect after years in which Downing Street was running riot by appointing one maverick after another . |
| 19 | Molly rang the house which Signor Fixit was guarding but there was no reply . |
| 20 | She found that she was bringing more and more discipline to her writing for the Clarion , and thinking of this she noticed that it was the Clarion which Dr Neil was reading , or pretending to read , for her new awareness told her that , too . |
| 21 | She knew very little about surgery and nothing about childbirth , but she had a fund of common sense , and the moment she had pushed through the useless , wailing women downstairs , and seen the squalid room in which Dr Neil was working , she had begun to dredge up what little she knew in order to help him . |
| 22 | There was a bus connection at the other end , and lonely narrow lanes , and the cottage in which Aunt Louise was living with her unwilling hostess was like a little house in a fairy tale , with small lattice windows of endearing shapes and sizes , and a mossy garden path . |
| 23 | She and her Aunt Louise were sitting in her mother 's living room , drinking sherry and feeling close , as old friends and allies do . |
| 24 | Similarly , in what seemed a particularly unconventional technique at the time , Michel Butor , in La Modification ( 1957 ) , employs a second-person narrative as a means , apparently , of voicing the monologue which Léon Delmont is conducting with himself as he travels from Paris to Rome to join his mistress , explaining to himself the history of his affair and anticipating how it will resolve itself . |
| 25 | Cossins also filmed a sequence with Crawford on Wimbledon Common , shown behind the end titles , in which Frank Spencer was running away from the grounds where the course was being held , with the organizer chasing him . |
| 26 | He ran a relentless campaign based on the argument that ‘ there was not the slightest shadow of justification for Alexander to be captain of a side in which Frank Worrell was playing ’ . |
| 27 | Still unpublished is a biography which Sir Dick was helping author Andrew Boyle to write . |
| 28 | One which was initiated by Thames Water , which Mr Dick is carrying out . |
| 29 | Labour MPs clearly relished the discomfiture which Mr Lamont was visiting on the man he helped to power as his campaign manager in the leadership struggle and who now had dismissed him . |
| 30 | ROBIN Leigh-Pemberton , Governor of the Bank of England , is among those who at one time have felt the tug of proportional representation , which Paddy Ashdown is saying he will demand in return for his support in a hung parliament . |