Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 2 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 3 | It so happens Kelly and I have been looking forward to this weekend , and I guarantee that men will play no part in it at all . ’ |
| 4 | She had n't been looking forward to this session ; yet , deep down , there was a contrary twinge niggling at her sexuality that insisted she might enjoy it . |
| 5 | Oh , I have been looking forward to this evening … ’ |
| 6 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 7 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 8 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 9 | Inspector Naseby of all people , who had clearly been looking forward to this moment . |
| 10 | You 've been looking forward to this wedding for days now . |
| 11 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 12 | ‘ The lads are looking forward to this game against Oldham to put things right . |
| 13 | Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester . |
| 14 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 15 | It 's er erm a little bit more straightforward a we 're looking straight onto this wall , looking straight onto the steps , and we 're looking straight onto the door , so everything is looking , sort of erm full-faced as it were and I think that makes for a less interesting composition than the previous one . |
| 16 | I bet they 're looking forward to this tape ! |
| 17 | Come on we 're going back to this shove it in water business again . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're getting out of this nightmare . ’ |
| 19 | Considering the disruptions Forest have had to er undergo here they 're getting back into this game impressively at the moment . |
| 20 | We have a confused and overlapping structure er er , the honourable member might be interested in just how confused it is er and how it can be simplified by er going along with the proposals we 're putting forward on this side of the er er the house because there 's so many overlapping authorities it 's just not clear who 's actually responsible for enforcement and compliance . |
| 21 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 22 | so there was silence until we got to the tube station and he said , how long have you been going out with this man ? |
| 23 | Public expenditure generally , and expenditure on social services in particular , have been growing rapidly in this century . |
| 24 | ‘ Things are going on at this school , ’ went on Dr Ali , in a whisper , ‘ of which it is difficult for a good Muslim to approve . ’ |
| 25 | It 's us and people out there , there is still people out there sighing and crying and groaning under the detestable things that are going on in this world , I 've no doubt you 've met many , but , when they say I do n't know what the world 's coming to , well if you know what 's in your magazines and then your literature and the reasoning book , all these lovely provisions , because you 've devoured it , you 've eaten it like that scroll that John was given , it was sweet to him was n't it ? |
| 26 | Medical supplies are going in from this country not only to help Moscow and St. Petersburg , but to go as far as Ekaterinburg , Tymen , Novokuznetsk , the Kiev oblast , the Donetsk oblast , and further afield . |
| 27 | ‘ It is not for us because we are going out of this business . |
| 28 | Poor people of the region , particularly women , are speaking out against this injustice and organising basic health care in their communities . |
| 29 | In fact , women have been speaking out on this issue for some time — among them Sue Cavanagh , co-author of a report on women 's loos published by the Women 's Design Service . |
| 30 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |