Example sentences of "you [be] [v-ing] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long have you been living in the flats for ? |
| 2 | As its name implies , this is based on your average earnings over the total period of time that you are participating in the scheme . |
| 3 | And whether you are dining in the restaurant or relaxing at the bar , our helpful staff want to make sure you really enjoy your visit . |
| 4 | Generally , when you wish to punctuate a piece of optional , additional information or an aside that you are embedding in the middle of a sentence — for example with commas , dashes or brackets — then whatever punctuation you use should be placed both before and after the added element to signal its boundaries , not just at one end or the other . |
| 5 | For example , if you use the words , ‘ I am resigning ’ , that unambiguous statement is likely to be taken at face value unless perhaps you are speaking in the heat of the moment or under duress . |
| 6 | ‘ I warn you , major , you may think you are acting in the interests of your men , but all you are doing is ruining your own career . ’ |
| 7 | It is the place to go if you are staying in the valley and want a swimming-pool or a tennis-court , but hardly recommendable for anything more serious . |
| 8 | ‘ How long you are staying in the complex ? ’ |
| 9 | The abandoned vine-terraces along the inland valleys , dried grey by the sun , look like the side of an amphitheatre ; much of the local retsina you think you are drinking in the village tavernas in fact comes from the mainland . |
| 10 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |
| 11 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) Take particular care when you are grooming in the vicinity of the dog 's neck and head , being sure not to pull any tangles . |
| 13 | That is not to say the process is not quicker when you are living in the country concerned . |
| 14 | Normally when you start water-skiing , you are lying in the water with your skis up in the air and the boat goes slowly away and you slowly come up , but this was like being catapulted into the water . |
| 15 | Imagine you are lying in the sunshine on a warm beach in Tahiti . |
| 16 | This will give you additional practice of the sounds , but now in a context , e.g. : secondly , put the sounds you are practising in the frame , and substitute elsewhere , so that you do n't concentrate any more on the difficult contrast . |
| 17 | You are letting in the air they like . |
| 18 | ‘ You question me as though I were a pedlar but you do not tell me what you are doing in the forest . |
| 19 | You 'll see that it is written in a slightly more formal style so that you can be absolutely clear what we expect of your now that you are working in the ES . |
| 20 | And here you are sitting in the church with two bags . ’ |
| 21 | Use sunscreens , even if you are sitting in the shade , and apply them frequently ( every two or three hours , or in accordance with the manufacturer 's recommendations ) . |
| 22 | I think that 's a minor problem but perhaps architects now pay a little more attention to and that is that , in the afternoon when you like to sit in the evening when you like to sit in the garden in the sunshine you are sitting in the shadow because the house er is between the sun and the garden |
| 23 | YOU are sitting in the dentist 's chair , every nerve and muscle tense as he swings the drill towards you . |
| 24 | ‘ If you had asked the same plumber three times to fix a leak , and , every time he has been , he has pottered around a bit and he has gone away , telling you he has fixed it and there you are standing in the kitchen up to your waist in water , are you going to call the same plumber to fix it again ? ’ he asked . |
| 25 | But Whittingham countered : ‘ It 's got nothing to do with elegance if you are putting in the goals . |
| 26 | If you 're moving in the winter you will need to protect your houseplants from the cold . |
| 27 | Right : Whether you 're cooking in the garden or out on a picnic , the portable Smokey Joe barbecue is ideal . |
| 28 | You 're teaching in the chapel most mornings , helping in the dairy and working in the house too . ’ |
| 29 | When , when you 're skiing in the Alps , it 's so hot , |
| 30 | ‘ You 're living in the past . ’ |