Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within hours I was flying over it . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I 'm coming with you , Nick ! |
| 3 | So anyway yesterday afternoon I was checking through it when the phone went again to ask about the washing machine and I was looking through the paper to see whether , and they 'd put it in this week ! |
| 4 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 5 | ‘ With all the money I 'm paying for your education , you should learn more than that ’ … |
| 6 | I 've found that my perception of acting and movie-making has changed drastically since I hung up my addiction , and I 've finally realized what damage I was doing to my career . |
| 7 | On the Tuesday after Easter I was climbing with my 18 year old daughter on rocks at Burbage North . |
| 8 | Back from Egypt for three months I was staying with my aunt in the Victorian villa in Tunbridge Wells in which we had both been born . |
| 9 | ‘ The lads I 'm taking with me will ensure there is a British influence and a British type of discipline throughout the side . ’ |
| 10 | You see , you know I was talking to you earlier about , about punchlines basically , but I ca n't remember the words I was using for it , times like by the way , right right , or did you know or did I mention to you do you follow me , a lot of key lines that you can think on that you use |
| 11 | And last Saturday I was speaking to her and Gary and the hotel phoned up and said pipes had burst . |
| 12 | A ridden horse which is concentrating on his work will often turn his ears back towards the rider , indicating his willingness to obey the rider 's next aids . |
| 13 | His name trembled on her lips once more , no longer a name but an endearment , a paean to the deep spring of emotion which was gushing through her , banishing logical thought , obliterating words like ‘ giving ’ and ‘ taking ’ , replacing them with ‘ sharing ’ . |
| 14 | The left side is a highly sophisticated computer which , under deep hypnosis , would give you the data registered five years ago recording the number , make and colour of the car which was standing outside your home at the time . |
| 15 | Looking to the north , she could already see the curtains of snow which were sweeping towards them with terrifying speed . |
| 16 | The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy . |
| 17 | The former England captain could not break down a determined Arsenal side who were playing for their places in the forthcoming FA Cup semi final against Tottenham . |
| 18 | By Tuesday she was flirting with me in a sweet , old-fashioned way , blue eyes as young as her memory . |
| 19 | In a bedroom you 're looking for something at one ninety nine or two ninety nine . |
| 20 | The referees you were looking for you |
| 21 | Receive ( if required ) a list of professional dressmakers who are working in your area . |
| 22 | He and Tony McCarthy had plied their unwitting accomplice with drinks that night in the pub and they had gleaned that Clark 's Wharf was guarded by a conscientious old-timer who was living with his frail and ailing sister . |
| 23 | Some Territorials who were standing near me became pensive . |
| 24 | Here 's another piece about that chick who 's dying in her teens because , according to the Line , she 's allergic to the twentieth century . |
| 25 | Well I 'm finishing me tape she 's coming for it in the morning . |
| 26 | I hope that 's not your prick you 're sticking in my back , ’ he said , his annoyance obvious . |
| 27 | That 's why you meet so many people at parties who are falling over themselves to recommend their accountant , dentist , gardener or solicitor , as if having a good one automatically bestowed a halo of good judgement on the one who found him first . |
| 28 | ‘ As the boat you were using for your ridiculous smuggling attempt belongs to me I should have thought it was obvious . ’ |
| 29 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 30 | The relationships you build up with our clients and the advertisers , with the clients you 're working in their own er their offices for three weeks so you get to know people . |