Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I you know should be and I hope am alerting you to areas where er you know we are falling short . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's what you would do , I suppose , but Garry 's wife is one of those women who think they have an ideal marriage , and she would go into a decline at the very mention of another woman , so Garry is presenting her with concrete evidence that their marriage is over . ’ |
| 3 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 4 | So erm I do n't whether or not I s I still do n't think they were ultimately revolutionary , I think they were just erm people who they think were exploiting them at the time sort of erm you know in a certain situation |
| 5 | Cricklewoods I think were selling them about sort of fifteen quid each . |
| 6 | We 've been watching them for weeks . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been watching you from over the wall . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been ringing you for days . |
| 10 | I 've been filling it in in pencil . |
| 11 | Now go and relax in your dressing-room for a little while — try a few of those deep-breathing exercises you 've been telling me about . |
| 12 | Or perhaps you 've been telling her about when her periods will be due . |
| 13 | I 've been telling her about that and all . |
| 14 | I 've er this , the the er hoe-down , I 've been advertising since before Christmas er and er although we did n't inform the members till about three weeks ago something like that er I 've been telling everybody about it and I 've had more response from non-members than I 've had from members for it . |
| 15 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 16 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 17 | And then one day , they 've been telling you for years , You ca n't do that . |
| 18 | ‘ The niece , the one I 've been telling you about . |
| 19 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 20 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been holding them for your decision . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ? |
| 23 | And he was saying he said oh you 've been good you 've been feeding us with cups of teas . |
| 24 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been expecting something like that to happen , ’ she said . |
| 26 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 27 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 28 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 29 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 30 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |