Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am using it in yarn-dyed form for things like Tencel/rayon chambray for jackets and dresses . |
| 2 | Medics are keeping her under intensive care but say she is making satisfactory progress . |
| 3 | If you are driving them near known pipe or cable runs , take care not to pierce them ; it 's best to drive the new nails as close to existing nail positions as possible for safety . |
| 4 | For the skin condition we 're bathing him in Nizoral shampoo which gets rid of the fungus growth and makes the skin better and more stable . |
| 5 | ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ? |
| 6 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 7 | I 'd forgotten how funny it is ; from now on I shall be using it in casual conversation more often . |
| 8 | But Branfoot warned : ‘ I 'll be keeping them under tight control from now on . |
| 9 | Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home . |
| 10 | My only worry is that I 'm turning him into New Boy with an unhealthy interest in housework . |
| 11 | I have had a letter this morning from Hexagon training and I shall be answering it in due course . |
| 12 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 13 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |
| 14 | Response has been excellent and we are putting them to good use — please keep them coming ! |
| 15 | Instead , staff are putting them into special collecting bins so that they can be taken away for recycling . |
| 16 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
| 17 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 18 | They were rolling it on rusty ball bearings . |
| 19 | To others , including Tennyson and Arnold , it seemed as if ‘ the ringing grooves of change ’ were carrying them at break-neck speed into a future full of uncertainty and alarm . |
| 20 | It had to be abolished , for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable . |
| 21 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 22 | Th that for most of us would be very sad and it is your Association and it is the only substantial body that there 's representing you as individual sailor but is attempting to fight off that unnecessary legislation . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's what you would do , I suppose , but Garry 's wife is one of those women who think they have an ideal marriage , and she would go into a decline at the very mention of another woman , so Garry is presenting her with concrete evidence that their marriage is over . ’ |
| 24 | I believe God is calling me to full-time service . |
| 25 | oh yeah the people , matey 's walking along and he 's going like this and he 's pulling it as he 's doing it , he says and he 's doing it in proper time like that , but with one arm going he 's twiddling it , he 's doing it , he says no my feet are exactly like that , very effective but you can actually get fined for loosing them , you have to pay for them and its like a real , shooting sticks as well , you do n't tend to carry erm , these pay sticks you carry them like the old shooting sticks , the old you know ? |
| 26 | The honourable gentlemen is asking me for procedural advice across floor of the house , which he knows that I do not volunteer . |
| 27 | • If you 're buying fish which are normally kept in brackish conditions , such as Mollies , Puffers and some Gobies , do n't automatically assume that your dealer is stocking them with added salt . |
| 28 | David Green who held the combined post of Overseas Director and Senior Administrative Officer is leaving us for other employment . |
| 29 | Also , this nomadic existence was bringing them into potential conflict with several different tax jurisdictions . |
| 30 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |