Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 2 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 3 | Then make up a minimum of 650 calories ( more , if you are allowing yourself between 1,000 and 1,500 a day ) from Fibre-Filler ( see page 65 ) and the meals on the F-Plan menus . |
| 4 | After all , you are seeing him in ten minutes . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I am devoting myself to this mystery because i want to be a man . ’ |
| 6 | My muscles are reminding me of this morning 's ride and the unaccustomed exercise … ’ |
| 7 | he would n't of been touching it with this . |
| 8 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 9 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 10 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 11 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |
| 12 | Not simply because it shows that you are enjoying yourself at that moment but because it actually contributes to your physical and mental health . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the scholars are bracing themselves for more arguements . |
| 14 | ‘ I am using it in yarn-dyed form for things like Tencel/rayon chambray for jackets and dresses . |
| 15 | but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier |
| 16 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 17 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 18 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 19 | Medics are keeping her under intensive care but say she is making satisfactory progress . |
| 20 | ‘ I am opening myself to new possibilities . ’ |
| 21 | If you are driving them near known pipe or cable runs , take care not to pierce them ; it 's best to drive the new nails as close to existing nail positions as possible for safety . |
| 22 | avoid doing it because the revenue are checking one in twenty cases , and if you 've got a partner who 's likely to pay , not to pay tax , that 's fine , if they are likely to roll over into tax , then do n't use an R eighty five . |
| 23 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 24 | Increasingly they are grouping themselves into multiple retail chains , as can be seen from Table 11.10 . |
| 25 | ‘ You are frightening me with this temper of yours . ’ |
| 26 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 27 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 28 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 29 | That 's right , if you 're organizing something like that and thinking about it from now , this is only the first of September , but |
| 30 | how much we 're helping them through this . |