Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has been asking this questions since it was announced that Holiday '91 Presenter Anne Gregg will be leaving the programme later this month at her BBC bosses ' request . |
| 2 | Nothing has been decided either way . ’ |
| 3 | All we can do I think is resist this strongly and the whole idea for reorganization particularly this time . |
| 4 | The last thing I want is to impale this dancing , living creature upon the stake of meaning . |
| 5 | I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that . |
| 6 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 7 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 8 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 9 | She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’ |
| 10 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 11 | I 'd been to work all day and I 'd been and been running sheets off all night . |
| 12 | I 'd been leading such a rackety life — Edouard , you ca n't imagine . |
| 13 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 18 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 19 | I remember being given some caviar once when we were in Russia — wrapped in newspaper because they had no containers to put it in ! |
| 20 | I kept being carted all the way to Buenos Aires . ’ |
| 21 | What I do is to stop these last two if apparently indicated remedies are not working as well as I would have expected . |
| 22 | I puke again , but it 's just like my tummy s being squeezed and all I do is make this coughing noise and nothing comes out . |
| 23 | Well I mean I do n't , well I 've never I think 's holding that hat on . |
| 24 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 25 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
| 26 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 27 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 28 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 29 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 30 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |