Example sentences of "be [pron] [verb] [pron] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why am I telling you this ? |
| 2 | What do I hope will happen ? " and " Why am I doing it this way ? " |
| 3 | ‘ Why are you telling me this ? |
| 4 | ‘ Pinkie , are you telling me this fellow 's a bloody intellectual ? |
| 5 | ‘ Why are you telling us this ? ’ asked Brian . |
| 6 | This is perhaps why many an ageing schoolteacher smiles benignly when his students demand : ‘ Why are you giving us this information ? |
| 7 | ‘ Why are you offering me this ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Why are you asking me this ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Guy , why are you showing me this place ? ’ |
| 10 | And why are we telling them this if it 's not eligible for consideration as a possible way of depriving us of an cash ? |
| 11 | We thinking well why are we doing it this way ? |
| 12 | I was longing to get back to it , or perhaps its associations with Toby were what lent it this sudden magnetism . " |
| 13 | because he 's said well she 's go she 's they got her this little place , did n't they ? |
| 14 | Is he doing them this year ? |
| 15 | She was always so in control about everything which is what gave her this air of being much older than just twenty-seven . |
| 16 | And the marriage that was being described was different from the one they had known , indeed bore almost no resemblance to it , and there was no-one to tell them this . |
| 17 | Why was she telling him this , reliving her humiliation for his vicarious enjoyment ? |
| 18 | Why was she telling me this ? |