Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , I am elaborating after the event in intellectual terms . |
| 2 | We 've been knocking at the door in four defeats . |
| 3 | ‘ Secondly , there is no doubt that Rentokil has pioneered , and is pioneering , new services that are contributing towards the environment in which we all live and work . |
| 4 | The whole South Sussex team had been driving round the country in a vast aluminium horse box , evidently the latest thing in America , and Kevin had provided each player with four top-class ponies . |
| 5 | What I would say is there are instances that have been happening around the country in the last year , where both doctors , G Ps , and nurses have actually said , you 're not doing that . |
| 6 | Thus far I have , in the main , been looking at the problem in the context of a conflict between parents and the minor , either the minor consenting and the parents refusing consent or the minor refusing consent and the parents giving it . |
| 7 | " I 've been looking at the cat in your window . " |
| 8 | If she had searched his bedroom earlier , she thought ruefully , she would not have been shivering on the pavement in a black pullover and jeans at two o'clock in the morning , carrying a large screwdriver . |
| 9 | At the moment , consultants are looking into the matter in detail , and their report will be put before the Broadcasting Committee for its consideration . |
| 10 | But they are the exceptions and it has to be stressed we are looking at the patient in a wider context . |
| 11 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 12 | ‘ They 're living round the corner in the council yard . |
| 13 | You 're going to the meeting in New York , of course ? |
| 14 | Tonight we 're heading for the finish in George Town . |
| 15 | ‘ Not when we 're drifting through the stratosphere in vaporized orbit . ’ |
| 16 | He 's visiting local businesses like this one which makes garden equipment to hear how they 're coping with the drop in orders . |
| 17 | If you 're travelling outside the area in which the flotilla is sailing it may take time to reach you , so our flotilla guarantee does not apply . |
| 18 | You 're floating towards the school in the morning , this morning ? |
| 19 | GOD KNOWS what they 're putting in the water in Seattle these days , but it 's got to be something pretty potent . |
| 20 | GOD KNOWS what they 're putting in the water in Seattle these days , but it 's got to be something pretty potent . |
| 21 | You 're talking about the commission in particular ? |
| 22 | She 's probably heating up the mince pies so we can have them hot when we 're sitting on the floor in front of the Christmas tree trying to guess what the wrapped up prezzies are . |
| 23 | I do n't like it when they 're sitting on the floor in front of the counter with their legs like that and they 're sitting there and you 're looking at the video and you think , well , I ca n't get that because that was made in nineteen-eighty-six and they might think I 'm a bit weedy , so I better get something that was made recently . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're leaving for the airport in half an hour so you 'd better get packed . |
| 25 | Relatives of British holidaymakers who 're fleeing from the hurricane in the United States are tonight waiting anxiously for news . |
| 26 | The stile is stopped up and , and res erm children particularly are clambering over the bridge in order to use the footpath , which actually does end at the stile , which has been stopped up , erm through the nature reserve . |
| 27 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 28 | The train had halted for a full five minutes on the western side of West Acton and all that time Dean had been lying on the roof in the rain . |
| 29 | For a start , the yachts are going round the world in the opposite direction , against the prevailing winds and currents , heading first for Rio de Janeiro , then Hobart and finally Mauritius , before returning to Southampton in April or May 1993 . |
| 30 | All this week we 've been reporting on the work in South America of Oxfam , which this year marks its fiftieth anniversary . |