Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [is] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To undertake a critical reading which is unconcerned with how it is intervening in the present is a denial of intellectual responsibility . |
| 2 | How he 's feeling at the moment . |
| 3 | " I love foliage and I think you have to rely a lot on that in small gardens because you do n't have room to leave dormant areas where nothing is happening for a long period , " she says . |
| 4 | In future all organs recovered in Scotland will be used here except in cases where no-one is waiting for an operation , when the organs will be used elsewhere in Britain . |
| 5 | Motives , at their simplest , are the underlying reasons why someone is behaving in a particular way . |
| 6 | I do not believe she knows why she is going to the Camp or what she will find there . ’ |
| 7 | Louise uses both names for business purposes , Torsney when she is working for the Hygiene Training Consultancy specialising in tailor-made courses for schools , social services and private hospitals ; and Pollard in her role as hygiene consultant for B & W Hygiene , which is a manufacturer and supplier to the industry . |
| 8 | Most of the time , she seems to be asleep — that 's when she 's walking round the place . ’ |
| 9 | Philip , 20 , was told he would be speaking to Caroline Cove , 26 , on BBC1 's Good Morning show through a live link with Sarajevo , where she is serving with the Army . |
| 10 | Murray , from Musselburgh , has returned to Tucson where she is staying at the University of Arizona with a former Musselburgh Grammar PE teacher , Meg Ritchie , the head strength coach there . |
| 11 | Take her latest bulletin on whether she intends to retire , issued from Japan , where she is playing in the Federation Cup . |
| 12 | Well now , Arnold Thomas will eat his harsh words when he 's living in the lap o ’ luxury . ’ |
| 13 | If they saw him with his son they would n't say that , or when he 's playing with the dog . |
| 14 | In chapter 45 , when he is staying in the hotel , for example . |
| 15 | He married a bishop 's daughter and , appropriately , they live in St Albans , in a house that is handy for the local Romanesque cathedral , which David French boasts he can see when he is lying in the bath and , while he is shaving , reflected in the mirror . |
| 16 | I mean that 's , at this time of year , when it 's coming to the time when people coming round with bargain barrels of biscuits |
| 17 | An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . |
| 18 | Well we 'd rather be talking to the West Midlands , Chair rather than fighting about where it 's going throughout the whole of England , which is a slight difference , in geographical terms . |
| 19 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 20 | The City players collected almost £1,000 to enable Lisa Johnson to join Lake in Los Angeles where he is recovering from a transplant operation on his knee . |
| 21 | Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those . |
| 22 | and er he saw the , he was with Trigger he says , he says keep calm , drinking calm , were in here my son , right , and er its the bit where he 's leaning on the bar and the bloke lifts up the bar and he just folds like a tonne of bricks sideways |
| 23 | I 've only read up to the bit where he 's standing near the hooker . |
| 24 | I do n't know why he 's living in the cottage when he has a home elsewhere — and a wife . ’ |