Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems BNFL is doing just that and I also welcome the fact that on a day like this they are letting someone like me make an input , ’ she added . |
| 2 | Now they 're helping us do exactly the same thing a couple of hundred years on . |
| 3 | They 're watching me like hawks here . |
| 4 | and she er she said what and she said oh well I do n't think I 'll phone Graham but if Maxine shows him the paper , she said I reckon he 'll phone them because er , it did say , I think in the paper that the , that she said they 're letting everybody know |
| 5 | but they 've had quite a good dinnertime today so I think they 're letting her stop a bit longer . |
| 6 | I 've got his statement and they 're letting him go . ’ |
| 7 | And they 're letting him keep linear . |
| 8 | They 're letting it die ! ’ |
| 9 | . See they 're making you cough now . |
| 10 | They were supporting him , they were making him look good , and the overall strategy seemed to be working . |
| 11 | It was all overdone , like the decorations in the ward , but even while I was having a superior little mental scoff , they were making me feel obscurely uneasy and near to tears . |
| 12 | And they were , you know the stallion they was helping him put it . |
| 13 | They was making us make baskets , for the war effort . |