Example sentences of "and [pron] [be] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 90 minutes to curtain-up and no-one 's feeling the pressure more , than the team backstage . |
| 2 | The family 's home in Stockton appeared deserted with all the curtains drawn and no-one was answering the door . |
| 3 | The doctor also said it was a ‘ disgrace that young men ’ in the RUC were killing themselves and no-one was studying the problem . |
| 4 | Rain pours down the window panes of my London flat and I am reading the letters of black political prisoners in the country I was born in . |
| 5 | Instead we are now saying , ‘ I know this diet and exercise plan is working for me ’ , ‘ this time I am going to reach my weight and inch goal ’ , ‘ because I never feel hungry and I am eating the foods I enjoy , I do n't even feel as though I 'm dieting ’ . |
| 6 | And Petrarch lived quite near here in Avignon , and I am seeing the same cypresses and oleanders … |
| 7 | And I am disturbing the veils , she thought . |
| 8 | This production is set in 1951 and I am playing the mistress the way Coward intended when he wrote the comedy . ’ |
| 9 | The Jamaican stays blank , and I 'm hoping the corpse do n't stir . |
| 10 | Erm my name 's Derek , and I 'm taping the meeting as most of you know so far . |
| 11 | The rounds are scattered on the kitchen table , and I 'm moving the pistol from hand to hand like I was kneading a blob of putty . |
| 12 | Erm yeah , tomorrow 's basically horrendously busy and I 'm temping the next two days , but I 'm free in the evenings . |
| 13 | And I 'm getting the fucking easy life . |
| 14 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 15 | And I 'm hearing the word ‘ groom ’ one too many times for it to be coincidence . |
| 16 | and I 'm seeing the surgeon today and erm and I met somebody the other day who 'd had it done and his fingers were n't affected , you know , so I mean it 's just the luck of the draw I think . |
| 17 | I know one should n't bite the hand that feeds but sometimes I feel that the roles are reversed : that I 'm really William Darcy , and I 'm playing the part of James Salperton . ’ |
| 18 | Yes , they do n't know cos they 're both Daily Mail readers and I 'm cutting the majority of these out . |
| 19 | My Mandy is dead and I 'm upping the ante . |
| 20 | ‘ Some swine stole her and ran her on to a coral reef , ’ I said , ‘ and I 'm spending the next two months mending her . ’ |
| 21 | And I 'm having the , I 'm er I having the |
| 22 | Yeah , what I thought see , if you come out and I 'm covering the door and this light on you 'll be able to see straight away . |
| 23 | So this boy is looking at the irises and I 'm doing the VAT on a multiple despatch but I 'm also looking out of the corner of my eye and thinking , ‘ You 're a Monday to Friday . ’ |
| 24 | It 's once you try and when you think , Well they must be real and I 'm missing the point . |
| 25 | We 're sitting in the train , knocking back gin , and I 'm continuing the same line of thought , aloud . |
| 26 | When Moira and I were passing the bandstand , I touched his arm and said , Hello , Cam . |
| 27 | Says Catherine ‘ My flatmates and I were expecting the return of our £780 deposit when we were told the agency had gone bankrupt . |
| 28 | Today my brother and I were catching the 7.00 am aeroplane from Newcastle to Corfu . |
| 29 | Lee and I were feeling the tension . |
| 30 | By this time Sandy and I were feeling the effects of our long day and by mutual agreement we made our way back to the ship . |