Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flares are n't news in Dublin they 're still wearing them from that first time round . |
| 2 | Please do n't think you 're doing your horse a favour in cold weather by shutting his top door , because you 're actually subjecting him to all sorts of health hazards . |
| 3 | So they they 're actually asking us for five hundred and ninety five pounds . |
| 4 | ‘ People are always comparing us to Bogshed ’ , slurs Carl in the band van after the third encore and the obligatory dressing room conversation with two fully grown men with Baldrick haircuts , plastic carrier bags , tatty combat jackets , thick lensed NHS glasses and lots and lots of badges . |
| 5 | Remember opportunity costs : in coughing up the money for one project , investors are still comparing it with other possible projects . |
| 6 | However , at the time of going to press , Berthoud , Chafer and Degania are also offering them as original equipment on their sprayers . |
| 7 | MUSICIANS from a Merseyside orchestra are really knocking 'em for six . |
| 8 | Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’ |
| 9 | In some cases , firms , such as Nestlé in regions of Brazil , having purchased haciendas , are now running them with modern agricultural techniques . |
| 10 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 11 | Well I 'm just putting them on clean dishes because I think these dishes |
| 12 | It is so I 'm just putting it in half now . |
| 13 | at the time had you been strongly recommending it since eighty eight ? |
| 14 | Giant trees were soon surrounding him on all sides and their branches made an almost solid roof high above his head , blotting out the sky . |
| 15 | They were still watching him with fox-like concentration . |
| 16 | In 1923 he began to study economic theory and became convinced that government objectives , far from ensuring a return to prosperity , were actively discouraging it through deflationary policies and obsession with the return to the gold standard at pre-war parity . |
| 17 | An aggressive mob of youngsters had been closely dogging us for some time and , emboldened by our apparent failure to notice them or to quicken our pace , had begun throwing stones . |
| 18 | If the cystitis is still troubling you after one or two days , see your doctor , who will be able to give you an antibiotic . |
| 19 | The Roman authorities are treated with a respect which is almost excusing them from any responsibility . |
| 20 | It 'll all be all right when the Vice President goes to Riyadh to sit down with the Iranians and they find out that our hostages come home , and the Ayatollah is either helping us in Central America or the contras . |
| 21 | At the end of this term , the Ayton School choir goes to Coventry Cathedral and Mr Essex , who will sing there with them , is currently rehearsing them for this occasion . |
| 22 | Cos what we have heard so far this morning is certainly placing me in all of the local authority . |
| 23 | Indeed , she had been half expecting it for some time now . |
| 24 | Marshall 's hands had once made music — now they could n't — so he was perhaps punishing them with hard labour in a sort of brutal compensation . |
| 25 | Coleridge was not only a willing listener to Southey 's ideas , but was soon developing them into grand and Utopian principles during long hours spent in Oxford ‘ disputing on metaphysical subjects ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’ |
| 27 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 28 | Months later he was to admit : ‘ Do n't you realize , Jim , I was just egging you on all the time ? |
| 29 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 30 | He was forever denouncing me during Parliamentary Questions in the most lurid terms but the denunciations were invariably so protracted that even his own side lost interest . |