Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might be teaching you some er number theory , or I might be teaching you the structure of number theory . |
| 2 | The honourable thing would be to give her the house . |
| 3 | We shall certainly be giving him the ball at every opportunity . |
| 4 | looked around and said well he said looked at me said er well cos he was just about to g throw a wobbly and say , well surely the sales department should be dealing with this , should be should be giving him the information and he he just turned round and gave the aforementioned quote and I just sort of went yes it is . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd better be getting back or the foreman will be giving me the sack . ’ |
| 6 | The point I 'm making however , is that a , a fairer way to judge this book , might be to say , not well let , let's reject everything in it that 's Lamarckian , cos it does n't fit with our modern prejudices , a fairer way , might be to read it the way we read Darwin 's works , where there is also considerable Lamarckenis Lamarckism , and say well , this is er , this is an understandable error , given the poor state of knowledge that people had about genetics at the time , and then try and make sense of it . |
| 7 | ‘ If I choreographed it it would n't look natural and I could really just be taping it the day before . |
| 8 | Dr Greene said you 'll be telling her the result of the sonogram . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You better be telling me the truth , ’ he said threateningly , ‘ or I 'll use the fucking thing on you . ’ |
| 10 | If she met an alien in Wandsworth High Street , she 'd be telling it the way to the supermarket and offering it free babysitting before you could say ‘ flying saucer ’ . |