Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I , I mean I du n no I mean I just , I just ha , I just had to tell you because I mean it really is pissing me off the way fucking Catherine treats me , she was alright before like and when I 'm on my own , no |
| 2 | He is reminding us of the way we are coming to the Lord . |
| 3 | He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’ |
| 4 | Now Koquillion claims he is protecting them from the wrath of his people . |
| 5 | He is basing it on the book by Martha Zamora Frida , el pincel de la angustia . |
| 6 | Although people generally consider me to be a very tolerant person , my moody male boss at work is driving me to the end of my tether . |
| 7 | My mate who is driving me to the match tomorrow says he wants to go straight to the ground so I wo n't be able to get to the Adelphi . |
| 8 | To the extant that Professor Preston is warning us of the dangers of oversimplification and bad herme-neutics then we do well to listen to him . |
| 9 | Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives . ’ |
| 10 | She sees natural sex differences as providing the basis for a critique of certain philosophical conceptions which exclude women , and in that way is enlisting them on the side of feminism . |
| 11 | We must make it clear to students that they can appeal against their rent to a tribunal so that the tribunal can decide whether the landlord is overcharging them on the council tax element . |
| 12 | ‘ Lieutenant Lapointe is escorting me to the opera on Wednesday , ’ she announced defiantly . |
| 13 | James laughed , ‘ Look at them , Angus , look at the people , they are rampant now , this is better than ‘ Forty-five , nobody is dying , no royal fop is leading us into the bog . |
| 14 | However , if he happens also to run a business and sells one of the cars in circumstances suggesting that he is selling it in the course of that business , then he is likely to be regarded as doing just that , Southwark London Borough v. Charlesworth ( paragraph 9–20 above ) . |
| 15 | The benefit of this will be apparent when a force ten westerly has sent your brolly to Holland and is pummelling you in the face . |
| 16 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |
| 17 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 18 | The People 's Hotel is on a grand scale , and we drive in style to the Foreign Language Institute , where our course takes place , every day , in company with Comrade Gao ( Ministry of Education ) , Comrade Yu ( our local interpreter ) and Comrade Wu ( a lady in her forties who is accompanying us on the rest of our tour ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The Dream is trying to stay together , but our input is expanding it at the seams . |
| 20 | is getting them into the habit is n't it ? |
| 21 | The problem is getting it to the surface , and in rural areas the best way is by handpump . |
| 22 | The Wantage white horses swim club are off to the Palace tomorrow … that 's the Crystal one … world number one Mark Foster is coaching them for the day … |
| 23 | The Bishop of Woolwich , John Robinson , did this some time ago with ‘ Honest to God ’ and Don Cupitt , I think , is doing it at the moment too with his book ‘ Taking Leave of God ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ They have suffered so many times in recent years and some think disappointment is staring them in the face again . |
| 25 | It is staring us in the face . |
| 26 | ‘ The need for the introduction of internment is staring us in the face , ’ Mr Maginnis insisted . |
| 27 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
| 28 | We wait until trouble comes , until trouble is staring us in the face , before we really feel the need of God , and pray . |
| 29 | ‘ The truth is staring you in the face , but you 're too blind to see it . |
| 30 | ‘ I think all this is tipping you over the edge a bit , ’ said Bedelia with an armful of dandelions . |