Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door to the inner room was open and Mo was standing watching a newscast on a TV set in the far corner sipping from a cut-glass tumbler . |
| 2 | Maggie was sitting reading a magazine when Laura came into the kitchen having just got the twins off to sleep . |
| 3 | Sextuplets parents Jane and Graham Walton are pictured accepting a cheque on behalf of the Newborn Appeal for £340.00 , from Tommy Kaye of St Christophers Social Club , Stapleton Avenue , Speke , after fund-raising by members . |
| 4 | New boss Allan Gormley is examining seeking a partner to help run the Cunard shipping arm . |
| 5 | During the TV programme , Marshall was seen conducting a board meeting with his usual mixture of arrogance and honesty . |
| 6 | Her manipulated images of masked Madonnas are made using a series of complex chemical processes ; she experiments technically , working and reworking the image until it has exactly the right feeling , tone or resonance . |
| 7 | Mrs Jones is pictured ornamenting a Jasper sweet dish — watched by the former Lord Mayor and ornamenter Paul Harper . |
| 8 | DEC is contemplating producing a translator that will take the binary code from shrink-wrapped Windows applications and spit out Alpha code . |
| 9 | This salon is encapsulated in Trevor Griffith 's play The Party , in which a Glaswegian version of Healy is seen overawing a motley of trendies , including an inebriated David Mercer-like figure . |
| 10 | Joe Samways is shown weaving a Chlidema Wilton for the Hilton Hotel in Paris , a highly skilled operation where borders are woven as an integrated part of the main design . |
| 11 | : The CED was re-indexed using a lexicon of some 18,800 lemmas . |
| 12 | A spokeswoman for Cadbury said no decision had been taken to stop the television advert in which Rachel is shown eating a Flake while lying in a bath . |
| 13 | In the film Julie is seen suffering a miscarriage . |
| 14 | But in January this year , Ironside was caught driving a Renault 14 car at Milford . |
| 15 | Ivor Smith was filmed torturing a cat by an animal rights activist . |