Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former Cardiff winger has his faults but so far he has adapted well to his new code and in a Bradford side playing more expansively these days is seeing plenty of the ball . |
| 2 | And I said , If somebody 's serving somebody in the shop and perhaps they you know two of three of them perhaps together , I said , but do n't talk in the shop I said , go through to the back if you want to chat . |
| 3 | All that matters is getting one over the trader . |
| 4 | Is not the truth of the matter not only that the Secretary of State is doing nothing about the housing needs of the service men and women who will be made redundant , but that he does not even know the facts ? |
| 5 | One 42-year-old market trader who did not want to be named , said : ‘ It is good to know that there is someone who is doing something about the problem . ’ |
| 6 | Locke 's philosophy about property accepted the settlers ' point of view : in his theory it is the man on the spot who is doing something to the land ( though mainly by directing the labour of the people he has brought over at his own expense ) who is justly entitled to ownership . |
| 7 | But in the second the word ‘ ride ’ suggests that the man is doing something to the horse . |
| 8 | Claire is sewing something in the comer . |
| 9 | she 's doing everything by the book I think , so |
| 10 | I i it 's saying something about the motivation of the people who who are doing this , those peasants who were taking the lead and becoming members of the Party . |
| 11 | The appeal runs until the end of this year and is asking everyone in the country to take part in a sponsored swim . |
| 12 | But it sounds to me as though it 's taking something off the telephone , which is simple in n it ? |
| 13 | On the local front , Peter Spratt refers to the company 's recent work on behalf of Mace , and he says that there is early evidence that the Mace ‘ Gerry Anderson ’ campaign is conveying something of the pleasure of grocery shopping , as well as making an important statement about branded merchandise and value for money . |