Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [pron] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 When Carole finishes when Carole finishes in this session I 'm gon na go and have a chat with her .
32 They just grabbed this bloke who 's standing outside the music area , thinking he might be a musician and he is n't , but it does n't matter .
33 In this dream I was standing by a river watching a man in swimming trunks caught in the downward surge of a waterfall or weir .
34 Last year at about this time it produced the admirable Victorian Newcastle painter Ralph Hedley ; this winter it is showing in ‘ A Romance with the North East ’ Rober and Isa ( Thompson ) Jobling , who lived and worked there until the 1920s producing powerful and poetic images of its countryside coast and people .
35 There could be no Durkheimian solution to such ills , for Freud 's model of man-in-society included the idea of instinctual gratification and repression , and it is this dimension which is lacking in Durkheim 's thought .
36 AT THIS moment what was happening in the outside world , for a cultural climate is never separate from events ?
37 What 's more , Charity , I 've seen this actor you were talking about .
38 It was unfortunate that at this period he was going through a protracted quarrel-by-letter with her and was generally grumpy and morose , especially if he had recently received one of her periodic letters informing him that it was ALL OFF !
39 This place we 're going to , it 's in Mariánské Láznë ? ’ she thought she should enquire , since it seemed they would not be walking to this lunchtime venue .
40 The roof of the Victorian section was not water-tight and in some places it was leaking like a sieve .
41 ‘ But all that day and the next few days I was waiting for someone to come in .
42 ‘ For the next few days he is going to be a bit sore .
43 Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’
44 Oh , that too erm that we are , had , if we are saying that this evening we are looking at communications and different elements of it , I think this is an area which if ever there was an example of how perhaps not to do it how to blow it askew , it 's probably the best one we 've had in , in decades .
45 This evening she was hiding behind a pile of rush mats and baskets in the shed at the back of the cottage .
46 At some point you 're gon na have something happen that you would n't want repeated , something that did n't work out .
47 This Richmond we were talking about .
48 It is this era which is drawing to a close and , with it , the peculiar mixture of promise and peril which long characterised Soviet life .
49 ‘ But there was another person who was staying in the same house — the Reverend Arthur Lyle .
50 On another occasion I was sitting on a bank with my feet on the headland , and Walter was coming along with his horses .
51 All the same , I ca n't help feeling a little anxious about this relish he is revealing for anarchy .
52 Some day I 'm gon na set fire to the joint personal . ’
53 Some day you 're going to be sorry about one of these chances you take .
54 I do n't know about these , this person you 're thinking of but er a very common reaction , I certainly have this from time to time , it really does irritate my wife cos I usually wake her up , is you know , you 're just going off to sleep and you suddenly kind of feel you 're falling , does , does that happen ?
55 Whereas on , on Saturdays it 's easier for supervisors to say okay well this day we 're gon na be doing
56 ‘ I 'm not interested in being cannon fodder in this feud you 're having with Ace . ’
57 Tony what 's this stuff we 're using in that one ?
58 The few tenants who are searching for short-term leases are now able to negotiate break clauses in leases for new buildings .
59 For these same reasons , some farmers who were thinking of selling have changed their minds and fewer farms are for sale .
60 But this contact I am talking about is a terrifying , although of course in a way wonderful , but also terrifying , form of … er … contact . ’
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