Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [v-ing] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your net margin on sales is 10 per cent and the discount offered for early payment is 2.5 per cent , you are effectively giving away a quarter of your profit . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the banks are slowly slipping over a cliff . |
| 3 | ‘ But you are kinda running up a backlog in my favour account . ’ |
| 4 | Winter has come at last , and we have had some severe frosts , but we are still getting quite a lot of sun , in marked contrast to last year 's everlasting grey skies . |
| 5 | However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead . |
| 6 | Blind are also bringing out a video . |
| 7 | Organisers of Wirral 's Initiative for Needy Children ( Winch ) are also lining up a celebrity spot-kick contest for the same day at Prenton Park . |
| 8 | Clubs , however , are also paying out a lot more and transfers surged to an alltime high of £75m , a staggering 63 per cent increase on 90–91 . |
| 9 | You are really giving away a part of yourself . |
| 10 | The Leeders are now drawing up a petition which will be presented to the Bishop of Chelmsford next month . |
| 11 | Scientists at Liverpool University are now drawing up a breeding programme for the UK herd . |
| 12 | Some Californians who visited us are now setting up a centre in San Francisco , ’ said Tabkay. — Tabkay seated in one of the gompas in front of a geling , a wind instrument he has mastered . |
| 13 | The NCC and the Scottish Herpetological Society are now carrying out a survey to determine amphibian populations in Fife , Kinross and Lothian . |
| 14 | Police are now carrying out an investigation . |
| 15 | Well , in that we 're , I 'm just , I 'm just bringing up a point that yes he , he , it seems that he could well say something like well , the cow herder or the shepherd down the road has got as much of the right as anybody else . |
| 16 | I 'm just tidying up a bit while you 're singing darling |
| 17 | He said : ‘ Thank you no I 'm just picking up a book George promised me . ’ |
| 18 | I shall not develop that point today , because it is not immediately relevant ; I am simply putting down a marker that , as the Bill 's provisions succeed in the community , we should not exclude an extension into other areas . |
| 19 | Which is more than can be said , perhaps , for some of the offerings labelled Panto that are currently mopping up a lot of customers . |
| 20 | So when you are actually checking out a book the librarian runs a little light pen , is it , over the code , so that it |