Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 4 | Carbohydrates provide a good energy supply for the body as they 're converted into glucose , but make sure you 're eating it in the right forms . |
| 5 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 6 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 7 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
| 8 | Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X. |
| 9 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 10 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 11 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 12 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |
| 13 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 14 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 15 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 16 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 17 | Understand that you are not shutting the door on the one you loved , but you are shutting it on the negative force that lived — or still lives — within them . |
| 18 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 19 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 20 | I said to Claire , I said , I 'm sticking them in the wrong one . |
| 21 | The key seems to be shaping it to the particular client . |
| 22 | I 'm representing you as the consultative . |
| 23 | So I would venture to suggest that if I 'm interviewing you as the Environmental Health Officer for a particular council on a council matter , then I would expect you to only speak on behalf of the council — unless I asked you whether your professional body was happy with your council 's policy . |
| 24 | you certainly wo n't be getting it on the following Monday |
| 25 | if you 're gon na plan bare rooted trees and stuff you 've got ta be doing it in the dormant season , so you 're talking October , November possibly October . |
| 26 | Mr Sabin 's family has been in the publishing and bookselling business since 1865 and his son Mark will be joining him in the new venture , together with David Fuller , another former Ackermann director . |
| 27 | I 'm taking you to the Jolly Farmers . |
| 28 | ‘ Will you be taking them to the maximum security wing , sir ? ’ |
| 29 | Erm , well , I assume you mean out of recent Leeds United players ( you ca n't seriously be comparing him with the real greats of football can you ? ) . he could certainly hit it , and sometimes goal-bound ( and quite often into the wall or behind for a goal kick ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Lewis seems to be making it in the old alternative comedy scene , does n't he ? ’ |