Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 4 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 5 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 6 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 7 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 8 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 9 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 10 | Carbohydrates provide a good energy supply for the body as they 're converted into glucose , but make sure you 're eating it in the right forms . |
| 11 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 12 | We we 're keeping it under the first weight bracket er for for cost reasons . |
| 13 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 14 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 15 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
| 16 | Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X. |
| 17 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 18 | But that still does n't tell me why you 're wearing them in the first place , does it ? ’ she grinned . |
| 19 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 20 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 21 | They may need to go out in pairs which is why I think that we do need to put more money into the budget to provide this service and make sure that we 're doing it in the best possible way , erm so I mean I think that it 's very important that we 're consistent about this . |
| 22 | you , you 're doing it in the same room |
| 23 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |
| 24 | so if you 're putting it in the second half of the second term |
| 25 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 26 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 27 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 28 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 29 | But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can . |
| 30 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |