Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] the [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of board members are pressing for the directors ' new suites , now being readied at the top of a spanking new building on Washington 's H Street , to be exempted from the Bank-wide policy of no smoking that begins on July 1st . |
| 2 | The second small point I just wish to reemphasize was er coming from what the House Builders Federation said earlier about the house builders being the people who are looking after the interests os North Yorkshire locals . |
| 3 | We 're looking at the roads er for North Yorkshire this Saturday afternoon . |
| 4 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 5 | You 're talking about individuals that have come in here , or you 're talking about the tenants ' association , the representation |
| 6 | ‘ WHEN YOU do comedy you 're not sitting at the grown-ups ’ table , you 're sitting at the children 's table . ’ |
| 7 | Most of these new arrivals had reached the area with the deliveries of Hurricanes by H.M.S. ‘ Furious ’ as already recounted , and had thus been languishing in the Pilots ' Pool at Ismailia , awaiting posting to a unit . |
| 8 | The salesperson 's voice may be competing for the buyers ' attention with the flashing lights and noise of the equipment . |
| 9 | I 'm phoning from the neighbours ' ! |
| 10 | For instance , teachers involved in this scheme would know that the success of their female pupils would be very carefully monitored , and that senior people in the school would be looking at the girls ' test results . |
| 11 | It is a symptom of sociology 's low status as a scientific discipline that so many researchers still seem to be seeking for the philosophers ' stone , or seeking status by attempting to theorize beyond their means . |
| 12 | and this is where it really matters and really counts , what are the army saying to new recruits who might be going into the careers ' office , army careers ' office tomorrow , |
| 13 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 14 | Our stronger feelings were reserved for the unscrupulous organisers of this sordid trade in human cargoes who were profiting from the Asians ' misery . |
| 15 | It seemed that the verderers were going towards the outlaws ' citadel , not away from it . |
| 16 | Both players were standing outside the players ' lounge when three men ran past them into the building , for which they are believed to have produced entrance tickets , pursued by around 20 Rangers fans . |
| 17 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 18 | When we were talking to the builders tha he were putting that in . |
| 19 | Well , at that stage we were talking to the men 's darts secretary came along and was saying , he 'd be quite interested in , in knocking up , you know , one of the Lancashire matches or something |
| 20 | She should have been thinking about the boys ' tea , and about Frederick 's dinner . |
| 21 | RFU secretary Dudley Wood is seeing to the tourists ' security , while South African manager Abie Malan insisted : ‘ Let's get something straight . |
| 22 | My position on what 's happening in the women 's movement at the moment is that it 's really in dire need of reconstruction , and that there would be no possibility of having a sort of joint togetherness as it were with Black women and white women because of some of the things that have been mentioned already — the racism that exists , the fact that feminism as a guiding ideological force remains a sort of tool of imperialism . |
| 23 | While the Government has made no promises , it is looking into the assessors ' findings . |
| 24 | I go to many different supermarkets to do my shopping , because you never know what is going through the cashiers ' minds . |
| 25 | Attendance at a day centre where the parents and child attend together can be very valuable or the professional 's going to the parents ' home to watch a play session will enable sharing of the observations . |
| 26 | Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine . |
| 27 | Erm , it 's a very long term thing , and John 's been working through the tenants ' action group on it so I personally do n't know what , what the kind of take up is on that , er |
| 28 | And so the ASEAN-4 are following in the tigers ' footsteps . |
| 29 | There was brawling at the Republicans ' conference in West Berlin in July 1989 and in mid-October a splinter group calling itself the Democratic Republicans of Germany ( Demokratische Republikaner Deutschlands ) was formed in Hannover . |
| 30 | It was a moonlight night and from 11pm Ted was waiting for the platelayers ' arrival as their company would liven his long shift . |