Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm very willing , but seeing as someone 's doing something for me , I 'm like you sure you do n't mind ?
2 When you suspect that someone is flattering you in order to manipulate , or responding in an artificial manner , ask for specific detail .
3 ‘ If he has not , ’ Alexei observed , ‘ then I have no doubt that someone is showing them to him even now . ’
4 If you think someone is following you on foot , check your suspicions by crossing the street , more than once if necessary .
5 Smiling at her over people 's shoulders while she could not move because someone was telling her at length how much she must be missing her mother .
6 Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs .
7 Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather .
8 I must have dropped off to sleep ; next thing , someone was prodding me in the ribs with a rifle butt , and a voice was saying , ‘ Come on , Piper .
9 Someone was shaking him by the shoulder as the band played ‘ God Save the King ’ and everyone else in the cinema stood to attention .
10 But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride .
11 In the process my middle was doubled up and it felt roughly as if somebody were squashing it between two metal plates studded with nails .
12 and when she went over she says er school being off , she heard er David saying something about well nobody 's keeping me from my ironing .
13 She said , ‘ Nobody 's putting me in no garbage can . ’
14 As she walked past his crumpled body she had said again , ‘ Nobody 's putting me in no garbage can . ’
15 Nobody 's asking you to be anything less .
16 Nobody 's charging you with anything . ’
17 And I said , If somebody 's serving somebody in the shop and perhaps they you know two of three of them perhaps together , I said , but do n't talk in the shop I said , go through to the back if you want to chat .
18 It 's getting used to thinking that somebody 's doing something for 'em .
19 Well Pat 's doing it for me , well somebody 's doing it for me , so
20 Or , rather somebody 's signing it for him .
21 Eighteen or twenty thousand pounds was rolling out of Apple a week and nobody was doing anything about it .
22 Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went
23 However , a great many books that , if one were tabulating them by content , would perhaps have to be called why-dun-its still have in them considerable elements of other sub-genres .
24 Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ .
25 Another one is getting myself into situations and then wondering what the hell I was doing there .
26 One is saying something about men in the plural , but no specific group of men is intended either .
27 One is doing something with a Mouli not recommended by Prue Leith 's School of Food and Wine diploma course ; another is bending over a table ; a third is spitting on to his palms .
28 No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors .
29 Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives . ’
30 But still the horses would n't budge : they were fixed as if something was holding them to the road .
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