Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
2 | He 's been secretly watching me for nearly two years . |
3 | I am slowly removing it with my tongue . ’ |
4 | ‘ I do n't have a lot of money when I come home and my parents , who are both on income support , are basically keeping me during holidays . ’ |
5 | They rejoice that their pews are full , without facing the sobering fact that they are only filling them by emptying someone else 's . |
6 | Do n't worry , no one is going to ever check up on you , you are only doing it for yourself . |
7 | His admirers are already comparing him with Chips Channon , Harold Nicolson , Richard Crossman , even Samuel Pepys . |
8 | The Open Software Foundation and Unix International as well as Sun Microsystems Inc are already using it as base technology . |
9 | The authorities are already threatening me with letters claiming the derelict houses are a public danger . ’ |
10 | To persuade their clients of the merits of the extension , the DLC salon is holding monthly wig parties , and punters are already swamping them with demands for afros and bouffant , bum-length Dolly Parton styles . |
11 | I think it 's really quite heartening to see so many aspects that the City Council are already taking notice of , and really are already putting it into their policies to view the environment as something precious , something we 've got to look after , but you 're warning us not to be too complacent are n't you ? |
12 | The owners of the 124 foot Silver Cloud are tonight towing her off the bank ready to tackle the famous Symonds Yatt Rapids on Friday . |
13 | ‘ Details are just reaching us of a major breakthrough in the Martian revolution , ’ Derek Carlisle announced . |
14 | We 're only doing it for and . |
15 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
16 | Well I mean you 're only doing it for him really are n't you , that 's the idea was to help him |
17 | and they 're only saying it for the sake of keeping going . |
18 | Other negatives were Gareth Burnells 's ‘ No , mate , I do n't think there 's any particular dispute over this stretch of the Derwent , ’ and Neil Newton Taylor 's ‘ No , we 're just taking them for a walk' ’ on a picture postcard of Cauldron Snout . |
19 | Right you 're just explaining it to me ? |
20 | I mean , I mean they are , they 're , they really are you know , we 're so complacent in this country , Mr Cameron , I , I do n't know , do you know , they 're just hitting us in every direction , my goodness me , you , you know , you 'll be afraid to breathe without they 'll want to target that . |
21 | And they 're just doing it as a matter of course over there . |
22 | Yeah and you wo n't if , do you , wo n't have to tell 'em what you 're getting for doing it , you 're just , you 're just doing it for interest so to speak |
23 | yeah you 'll still get it to you , you 'll still get cancer with it cos er , it 's coming through and you 're still getting it on your chest |
24 | ‘ We 're still developing it for use with seedlings and delicate plants , ’ says Stuart , ‘ but we 're certain it has tremendous potential . ’ |
25 | Flares are n't news in Dublin they 're still wearing them from that first time round . |
26 | Charlie Chaplin 's silent black and white movies captivated the world in the early part of the century … and they 're still doing it for a new generation coming through . |
27 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
28 | it 's not as if you 're like selling them at cost and making a few pence because |
29 | ‘ Anyway , you ca n't commit suicide with a twelve bore , although they 're always doing it in books . |
30 | no hope we do n't lose it on that Tim , it 's got all my money in at the moment , it 's a really good one is n't it , we 're really enjoying it at the moment does n't what number it is but we just , what do we do with this ? |