Example sentences of "[Wh pn] be [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sunderland 76ers , who are surging up the Carlsberg League table , almost came a cropper at the Granby Halls . |
| 2 | They were shown a video about the department and introduced to members of the team who are setting up the service . |
| 3 | HOSPITALS , community centres and local charities are set to reap the rewards from the work of local youths who are taking up the Post Office Community Challenge . |
| 4 | I think that if today we can give a little help to those who are carrying on the race the money will not be wasted , ’ ( House of Commons Debate , Vol. 300 , col. 1634 ) . |
| 5 | We 've been taken on as a whole gang with lots of others , to make roads for those who are chopping down the trees in Wychwood Forest . |
| 6 | And erm , and then on the Sunday morning , it was the local tradespeople erm who were taking down the Christmas trees and things , they had to clear up , they did n't have to but they did clear up the mess , it was a disgrace . |
| 7 | By the time he died there were no animals left in the yard , nor land to call his own , for it had been sold to the building men , who were throwing up The Courts in order to house the rabble from starving Ireland and those flooding in from all the villages from miles around , all in the hope of being set on and blankets and shawls , everything that would go to cover a human being . |
| 8 | Propelled forward by the shrieking aunts , who were bringing up the rear , they stumbled in , falling over the pots and pans and bumping into the dangling kettles , dropping their sacks and shouting and generally making the most satisfactory uproar imaginable . |
| 9 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 10 | For there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel , and the hum and songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day ; and the merry jests and greetings sent down to those who were passing through the streets . |
| 11 | The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government . |
| 12 | We may identify people from a description of what they are doing : the woman who is chatting up the Admiral , the man who 's fixing the car , etc . |
| 13 | The discussion began with criticism of who is setting down the guidelines for development , and who is actually undertaking this community economic development work . |
| 14 | On Monday , Marilyn ( ELT Design ) who is sorting out the stock stills Rob has asked for , would like some clarification . |
| 15 | You 're in a position of strength as a potential client who is checking out the service on offer . |
| 16 | If you consider ideas like killing or biting , for example , Kalkadoon uses a suffix -tu to indicate who is carrying out the action — in grammatical terms to mark the ‘ subject ’ of the transitive verb . |
| 17 | You know , this man who was hanging on the cross beside Jesus he had not been christened , he had n't been dedicated , he had never been to a confirmation class in his life , he had never been baptized , he had never been received into church membership he had never even gathered around the Lord 's table ! |
| 18 | The woman who was filling in the form said : ‘ I ca n't put that down — you must remember you are a refugee . ’ |
| 19 | Then she turned , willing Miss Harker , who was holding out the duster , to look at the board . |
| 20 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |
| 21 | She turned to Amy , who was clearing up the dressing trolley . |
| 22 | For reasons which baffle me , the referee thought that it was Gimbert who was pulling down the scrum . |
| 23 | She opened the heavy oak doors and the dogs swept past her bounding across the drive to their master who was opening up the car boot to remove his luggage . |
| 24 | Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances . |
| 25 | Elinor asked Buzz , who was adding up the Scrabble score . |
| 26 | The CID sergeant thanked her gravely and went to stand beside Jamie who was peering down the embankment , looking pinched . |