Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] be [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 2 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 3 | Imagine yourself being in a crowd where English is being spoken , but suddenly you sense that somebody is talking in another language . |
| 4 | Let's now come back to this quiff analysis where John was confused and everyone was explaining to each other . |
| 5 | Cos everyone was crying at that bit in the in the cinema , were n't they ? |
| 6 | Well you just mix it together , it looks like something 's floating in some clear a clear water , really rough and you just knock it back . |
| 7 | And something was happening to that door ; something that he could n't make out , because it was screened by their bodies . |
| 8 | A black hole is a region of space from which it is impossible to escape if one is traveling at less than the speed of light . |
| 9 | I mean and everybody 's looking for that dream amount are n't they . |
| 10 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 11 | But something is happening in that upper panel . |
| 12 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 13 | We were just drunk as usual , but everybody was arguing with each other and it came to a head and we had a fight . |
| 14 | I like it when you 've got the FX actually going through the amplifier , rather than adding it at the desk , because there 's a certain quality and tonality when everything 's going through that guitar speaker . |
| 15 | For when one is dealing with such volatile temperaments , the slightest thing may result in my instant dismissal . |