Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] this " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ No , I 've been all over the North , so I 'm leaving it this time . ’ |
| 32 | We 'll be discussing it this afternoon and Labour members told us and no doubt they 'll tell us again that the users of the centre have a democratic right to be consulted about how it was run Do n't tenant farmers have the right to be consulted ? |
| 33 | I 'm telling you this with authority because he 's made me typing monitor in the matter . ’ |
| 34 | I 'm telling you this in the strictest confidence of course . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ But my conscience is the only reason I 'm telling you this , all the same . |
| 36 | I made four locks for the gates on Lord 's cricket ground er and when I 'm telling you this , and practically without exception , they must 've er got to know me and they come for what they wanted . |
| 37 | But I do n't know why I 'm telling you this , because you 're going to do exactly what you want to anyway . ’ |
| 38 | I 'm telling you this in confidence , but you 'd find out about it when you go through the books . |
| 39 | Next you 'll be telling me this Rosie girl 's a virgin ! ’ |
| 40 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
| 41 | ‘ I — I ought not to be telling you this , but Lady Lavinia told me she would … leave me something . ’ |
| 42 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 43 | ‘ Honestly God , if you had seen my performance reports for the last forty years you would not be offering me this position . ’ |
| 44 | we 'll certainly be needing them this year , cos the garden 's bare . |
| 45 | ‘ I wo n't be needing you this morning after all . ’ |
| 46 | I mean it would be nice , I 've been reading it this afternoon , it would be lovely Gary |
| 47 | And just as impulsively she turned to check on the movements of that incalculable swarm of half-grown children who were causing him this natural anxiety . |
| 48 | Was what you were telling him this morning , was it ? |
| 49 | All her instincts were telling her this was going to be a fabulous evening . |
| 50 | Please do n't say I 've been telling you this . |
| 51 | You have to wonder if they are telling them this is how to do it . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ And why are telling us this only now ? ’ |
| 53 | The blood , the gaping holes , the bone sticking out of flesh , the stench of burst intestines — I am telling you this only because the effect on me , a boy who had never seen even a peacefully dead body before that day , was one I should never have predicted . |
| 54 | ‘ That also is why I am telling you this . |
| 55 | And what we 're trying to do is to give him this family feeling that everybody behind here , the whole team , every single worker is rooting for him and making sure that he has the best . |
| 56 | ‘ If you look the way the snow falls , ’ he said hesitantly , ‘ you can see the air conditioning is blowing it this way , ’ he pointed , ‘ so it piles up more on this side of things than that side . |
| 57 | yeah it might be , I do n't know , I think usually Roy does that but I think Dave 's doing it this year or something erm er that tends to be , that tended to be something that I had difficulty with as a student because again you could n't just sort of find one book that , that covered the lecture course |
| 58 | Who 's doing it this time ? |
| 59 | I decided to eat with them as Head of Primary Department is giving me this afternoon off and therefore I do n't need a break from the kids . |
| 60 | But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope . |