Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [indef pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind that I 'm taking one in a fortnight 's time . |
| 2 | I 'm wanting one in the kitchen . |
| 3 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
| 4 | We 're not talking of a conversion of ten to fifteen thousand dwellings with erm new building being reduced considerably , we are talking something in the order of magnitude of what has been happening in the past . |
| 5 | But I think we 're seeing something in the Forest side we have n't see for what twelve fourteen years are we . |
| 6 | I think there 's still too much ‘ You do that , you do this ’ in the big record companies , but that 's bollocks too , because without the artists knowing what they 're doing nobody in the record company would have a job . ’ |
| 7 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 8 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 9 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |
| 10 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |
| 11 | I walked in there and I can se he had a he had a er some copies and and er he was getting one in the bloody phone ! |
| 12 | He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble . |