Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WILLIAMS : Sir , the French Telemachus , for I am about perfecting myself in the French tongue . |
| 2 | Anyhow I see what Richard comes up with , but I , I think it might be worth saying what about the . |
| 3 | It would be like finding yourself in the kitchen with Barbara Coleman when you would rather be with Oliver and James Cobalt searching for drugs . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't say anything to Philippe because it was so inconclusive , ’ she finished , ‘ and I still ca n't decide whether it 's worth taking them to the police . ’ |
| 5 | It is worth reminding him of the fact that Japan 's economy grew by 4.5 per cent. , and ours shrank by 2.5 per cent . |
| 6 | This kind of argument reads well in Callinicos ' hands , but it is worth reminding ourselves of the unattractive reality to which it bears witness . |
| 7 | Freedom of choice is no longer on the agenda , especially now that American Jews have discovered that it is easier to raise money for absorbing Soviet Jews in Israel than it is for resettling them in the US . |
| 8 | He anticipates that the campaign will snowball and , depending on the results , he is considering taking it to the House of Commons . |
| 9 | But the rightness of that observation would depend on the inadequacy of the ‘ other protection , ’ because it is clear that there is no absolute privilege against answering incriminating questions : the privilege is against exposing oneself to the reasonable risk of prosecution . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception . |
| 11 | It 's like seeing myself in the shadows there , all choked up . |
| 12 | It has led some people to argue that the only sensible way to study learning is by examining it in the ecological conditions to which it is adapted ( Johnston , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | But I mean like I did n't think it was worth putting it in The Post to start off with anyway . |
| 14 | You could make it all seem better than it was by reminding yourself of the spirit of Sharon Lines and the apparent contentment of Old Ape and the cigarette cocked jollily in the corner of Mrs Slewy 's mouth and the way in which Miss Lavant had learnt to live with her passion . |