Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have an open ticket for where I 'm flying to first . ’ |
| 2 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 3 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 4 | The waters beneath the plankton contain no plants , but they are full of creatures feeding upon the plankton above , or on the bottom dwellers below , or which are migrating from one rich feeding ground to another . |
| 5 | Scouting takes up much of Sarah 's spare time but she still squeezes in regular visits to Huddersfield Technical College where she is studying for two ‘ A ’ levels — geography and business studies . |
| 6 | Our range of mortgages is designed to suit all incomes and needs — so whether you 're buying your first home , you 're on the move or you 're thinking of switching mortgages — we can find you an excellent mortgage deal . |
| 7 | Too often , friends and colleagues react to the information that someone is suffering from depression either by agreeing that they often feel a bit down themselves but manage to cope , or else by treating the person as if he or she were suffering from mental disease . |
| 8 | This proposed empowering a summary court to order , on application by the medical officer of that Corporation , the removal and detention and maintenance , in an institution infirmary , of elderly , infirm , or physically incapacitated persons living in insanitary conditions , or who were suffering from any grave chronic disease . |
| 9 | Where we are acting as independent valuers , MAS may resist releasing a completed valuation report before physically receiving the agreed payment for the report . |
| 10 | To be expected on sandy or gravelly shores where there is flushing with fresh or brackish water . |
| 11 | It made a number of recommendations for a more disciplined and concerted pre-trial regime , suggesting that a defendant should be given credit for a guilty plea , particularly where there is saving of public expenditure and time , and that there should be a more vigorous policy on credit for pleas of guilty either by way of reduction of length of custodial sentence or the passing of some alternative to custody . |
| 12 | Jesus Jones and Morrissey did tours where they were playing to 100 people — and now Morrissey 's playing to 12,000 . |
| 13 | When he was hungry , he went to eat the left-overs thrown to the dogs outside the Anglesey farmhouse where he was staying with foster parents . |
| 14 | When he was hungry , he went to eat the left-overs thrown to the dogs outside the Anglesey farmhouse where he was staying with foster parents . |
| 15 | 49 Miss Havisham regrets her ‘ training ’ of Estella and when Pip returns from abroad where he was working for 11 years he finds Estella much changed from her unhappy marriage to the spider . |
| 16 | ‘ It really was good fun , although I am hoping for fair weather for next week 's voyage . ’ |
| 17 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 18 | Nadia : I am from the General Union of Palestinian Women and it 's good that I am participating in this meeting at this time because I am having major problems with the British Feminist Movement and the Western feminist line . |
| 19 | These Societies were in opposition to the differentiation and autonomization model of modernity that I am using in this paper . |
| 20 | It all makes me even more angry at the injustice of the situation , and then I worry that I am passing on that anger when I 'm with the boys . ’ |
| 21 | That I 'm organizing in that I have now done a little bit more research . |
| 22 | That stuff that I 'm buying from that company cleans trainers . |
| 23 | Even my friend , Celia Bond , says I 'm imagining things , that I 'm suffering from delayed shock or some such nonsense . |
| 24 | ‘ No , except that I 'm engaging in prurient speculation about Gooseneck and Sunil and whether they 're having an affair . |
| 25 | Er prior to the war we we did very the three pound nineteen and six and the four pound one that I 'm talking about that was all done with local negotiations . |
| 26 | I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer 's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming . |
| 27 | He knew somehow that I was dealing with this section and gave me the serial number of a wagon and told me not to go anywhere near it . |
| 28 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 29 | The journey was not in vain , for I quickly realised that I was walking on man-made terraces . |
| 30 | That one 's very atmospheric , very similar to Sebastian and the stuff with orchestras that I was doing in 1974 . |