Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am writing you a joint letter this time , as I forget who I sent my last card to . |
| 2 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 3 | The great thing about the game is that you 're teaching them a little bit of culture |
| 4 | Oh well now you 're asking me a tricky one . |
| 5 | we could actually make you a bit bit A lot better than this , and I think the time has come to adjust how we 're treating you a little bit . |
| 6 | Most companies have a lackadaisical approach to recruitment — as if they 're doing us a great favour . ’ |
| 7 | er we do n't have to po er , you see , it 's to do with school anyway , but they 're giving them a packed lunch so I believe . |
| 8 | This takes place in late November and on two separate evenings we fill our largest lecture theatre with local school children from both sides of the county , sometimes a little bit further afield , and that means that we 're giving them an illustrated lecture by one of our more distinguished colleagues , and we entertain and inform , I think , something like eight hundred school children every year in that alone . |
| 9 | You 're giving him a tough time , it 's not fair to make it tougher . |
| 10 | The gauntlet was down , the opportunity to talk to arrange a forum , to come together , land owners , local authorities , the hunt 's people , er the interested parties , to come together and look for a decent way of hunting and that way is probably drag hunting and we 're giving you a golden opportunity to start that route . |
| 11 | But the girls really want it and we 're making it an all-girl event . |
| 12 | ‘ Mister , you 're givin' me a hard time , you are , and just when I 'm thinking I 've met a real gent for a change . |
| 13 | I 've been paying him a little visit . ’ |
| 14 | they pay , they pay , they are paying me a little bit , I think it ought to go up in price a bit though myself |
| 15 | People who think they 're being persecuted always think people are paying them a great deal of attention so they come to believe that they must in a sense be very important people , ’ he said . |
| 16 | A friend of Rosemary 's has been teaching us a few basic ballroom dances — the deal is that we both go to his aerobics classes ! |
| 17 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |
| 18 | " I see you 've been getting him a new collar and lead . " |
| 19 | 1 Walk of Life ( POLICE ) Permission given : PolyGram are sending us a standard license to use , and will charge 50 . |
| 20 | We are sending you a free subscription to our newsletter on stocks and shares for three months . |
| 21 | ‘ Ninety-nine percent of vampires are real nice people , ’ he said , ‘ But we want to crack down on phoney vampires who are getting us a bad name . ’ |
| 22 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 23 | I think the time has probably passed now , all the schools have got their own budgets , they 've got their own builders who are giving them a good service , and I doubt whether this is the time to resurrect that , especially with local government review not far off , and the future of a county-wide D S O in some doubt , when it comes to local government review . |
| 24 | Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’ |
| 25 | Ford , 20 , is technically on loan from Rotherham until the end of the season , but the Millmoor club are giving him a free transfer . |
| 26 | While your friends are giving you a hard time at present if you persist and refuse to indulge in drug taking they should eventually accept you as a non-user . |
| 27 | I am afraid I am giving you a great deal of trouble . ’ |
| 28 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 29 | " Apparently some of the younger fellows in the Owsla have been giving him a thin time — teasing him about his fur , you know , and saying he only got his place because of the Threarah . |
| 30 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |