Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] i [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zambia has been telling me a lot , you know . ’ |
| 2 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 3 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 4 | ‘ Geoff has been giving me a lot of help , having a look at my action and making a few minor adjustments . |
| 5 | All Glen 's got ta do is give me the car , if he does n't |
| 6 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 7 | He said he 'd noticed that our Mini was getting a bit down at heel , and in the light of Ken 's injuries he thought the least he could do was to give me a better means of transport . |
| 8 | All you have to do is tell me the truth . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 10 | They 've been calling me a baboon and shit . |
| 11 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 12 | I know I 've been a bit stupid , but I 'm trying to get my act together and all Luke-do-it-all-Denner does is give me a hard time ! |
| 13 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |