Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deputy was investigated after being seen feeling a colleague 's groin . |
| 2 | If , after being ordered using a map , a pair of linked contigs are adjacent then these links are more likely to be genuine . |
| 3 | On Sundays the ‘ psalm children ’ came from the villages to be heard reciting a psalm which they had learnt by heart during the week . |
| 4 | Whatever curves I specified had to be made using a bandsaw , a drum-sander , spokeshave and scraper . |
| 5 | Yes , it is difficult to believe that before Sly Stallone was blasting out showers of bullets , he was at one time more likely to be seen wielding a pair of scissors and blowing hot and cold with a hairdryer . |
| 6 | There he could entertain certain people who might be useful — people with information to give but who were afraid to be seen entering a barracks or Dublin Castle … . |
| 7 | The new entrepreneur in Russia wants to be seen driving a performance car , but one which is tough enough for the conditions there . |
| 8 | But I 'd be surprised if they had n't a front-runner in mind , because there will be a lot of hard work to be done getting a replacement this summer . |
| 9 | This column allows a comment to be provided giving a reason for the rejection , which can be up to 48 printing characters long , including spaces . |
| 10 | Great care had to be taken negotiating a stretch of unstable rocks and I considered turning back . |
| 11 | The Icicle Works do n't appear to be particularly active at the present moment and Ian McNabb was recently to be spotted playing a solo gig at Camden 's Underground Club . |