Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 2 | Well do n't you enjoy him being here making you laugh ? |
| 3 | He 's always making her cry . ’ |
| 4 | There is ‘ no hiding place ’ from whatever 's now making you feel a ‘ prisoner ’ . |
| 5 | But she was slow letting it burn . |
| 6 | It had happened three times before , with different men , and Cathy had reached the conclusion that she was somehow making it happen . |
| 7 | No doubt Thomas was deliberately making her look foolish in public in order to hide his real feelings . |
| 8 | This teacher was always making me sit on his knee , and when he asked me questions like ‘ What is the square root of five thousand six hundred and seventy-eight and a half ? ’ , which I could n't answer , he tickled me . |
| 9 | I 'd seen the rails before , a set laid between the road and the water ; the rain was now making them glisten and smirk . |