Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the extracts from cases and other materials which follow , where the term ‘ sovereignty ’ is used , the judges or writers are using it in the sense of supremacy . |
| 2 | However , I am doing as the Daily Mirror suggested , and am contacting you in the hope that you can give me the answer . |
| 3 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 4 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 5 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 6 | I thought he would , he deserves it and suddenly the semi-circle is clapping and looking at me : ‘ She 's won , she 's a-a-a won , ’ I hear John shout from half-way up the stalls , and my fellow contestants are slapping me on the back and pushing me to the front of the stage , |
| 7 | ‘ But I suppose that you are consoling yourself after the fashion of a fool who lives in the slums . |
| 8 | Oh , I 've no doubt that somewhere down the line these things are are built it , but what I 'm saying is that the majority of dealers these days are including it within the package and saying look this vehicle comes with it completely because there is such erm a demand for this erm type of insurance . |
| 9 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 10 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 11 | We are bracing ourselves in the Administration Centre for what promises to be an even better year two targetting very substantial growth over year one . |
| 12 | The Chancellor and the Prime Minister are patting themselves on the back for the fact that they have managed to reduce British inflation rates to something like the German levels , but there is a difference between the two . |
| 13 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 14 | The build up to the next Olympic games believe it or not is already underway … and our Friday Feature this week comes from Milton Keynes where Britain 's ice skaters have been launching themselves into the challenge of gold |
| 15 | He said When they are stabbing you in the back and behaving totally idiotically . |
| 16 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 17 | Property speculators in particular are addressing themselves to the question of what is to be done with the vast stretches of land once occupied by watch towers , border guards , dogs and rabbits . |
| 18 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 19 | Why is it that some general secretaries of certain unions are pushing us down the path of severing our links ? |
| 20 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 21 | But I think we 're seeing something in the Forest side we have n't see for what twelve fourteen years are we . |
| 22 | Every other day we 're using it at the moment . |
| 23 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 24 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 25 | And I think that is the message which I want to get over to you , because if you can find that way to tread that difficult line which is there in our society which is over-protective , over-secretive , which is concerned about not not letting people unless they 're of a certain rank , level or certain job , speak out publicly unless you can break through it I think you 're actually , first of all , denying something for yourselves , and that you 're denying something for the public at large . |
| 26 | You 're pushing me to the limit , ’ she whispered , cringing into the brocade settle and holding her drink in front of her defensively . |
| 27 | Oh you want to walk on that , oh Charlotte come on then , you 're pushing me into the road . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're pushing me in the direction of flattery again , ’ he said softly . |
| 29 | We 're ignoring them for the moment . ’ |
| 30 | the earths it comes out of so they 're selling it by the bottle in Germany . |