Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Businessmen are enjoying their first boom for ten years . |
| 2 | The couple are enjoying their first holiday together travelling around California in a caravan , according to German newspaper Bild . |
| 3 | With the sad death of their bass player David Mankaba behind them , the band are promoting their third LP , Absolute Jit , and hope their colourful music can bring a ray of sunshine to Darlington . |
| 4 | Bishop and his Welsh colleagues are seeking their first win over England in 18 years . |
| 5 | ‘ While you 're eating your last breakfast , I 'll make out your bill , ’ he concluded dismissively . |
| 6 | It 's mix and match at Chipping Norton , where they 're staging their first ever mixed fours . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're smoking my next six weeks ’ dole money , ’ I said , handing the second joint to Melanie . |
| 8 | They 're celebrating their twentieth birthday celebrations . |
| 9 | On March 28 , we 're holding our next coffee morning at Branksome Hall . |
| 10 | Our range of mortgages is designed to suit all incomes and needs — so whether you 're buying your first home , you 're on the move or you 're thinking of switching mortgages — we can find you an excellent mortgage deal . |
| 11 | If you 're buying your first home and your mortgage is £40,000* or above you could qualify for the following benefit : — . |
| 12 | We 're doing it next week ! |
| 13 | It has pretty much happened , we 're chasing its last desperate apologists down a hole of their own making . |
| 14 | Several ‘ big' names among the 44 booked are marking their first appearance at Foxhall in their new formula . |
| 15 | Oxfam , the charity founded by an Oxford University professor and a Church of England vicar , has been marking its 50th anniversary . |
| 16 | At a ceremony attended by Chris Green , managing director of InterCity , locomotive 91003 which operates on the high-speed East Coast route will be given the name of this newspaper which has been celebrating its 175th anniversary . |
| 17 | By rights Swindon Town should have been celebrating their first win of the season on Saturday … what they have to do to win heaven knows … |
| 18 | If Storie , and possibly captain Bruce Russell , who made 20 , had gone on the attack a couple of overs earlier , the Scots might have been celebrating their first victory on South African soil . |
| 19 | From early this morning they 've been celebrating their seventh birthdays with cards , sweets and of course plenty of presents . |
| 20 | A baby who defied the odds and survived despite being born sixteen weeks premature , has been celebrating her first birthday . |
| 21 | The Queen Mother has been celebrating her ninety-second birthday with a walkabout to meet more than a thousand well-wishers who had gathered outside Clarence House . |
| 22 | Today he 's been celebrating his thirtieth birthday , but quietly , in his stable . |
| 23 | Gavin had been celebrating his first wage packet after being out of work for 9 months . |
| 24 | A village cricketer has been celebrating his seventieth birthday by opening the batting in a game . |
| 25 | The children of the parish are celebrating their First Holy Communion this week . |
| 26 | BENTLEY Primary School are celebrating their 150th anniversary this year and preparations are well under way for a week under way for a week of special events in May . |
| 27 | THE North West deaf association are holding their 15th anniversary dinner dance at the Broomhill Hotel , Derry , on September 18 at 8pm . |
| 28 | The Friends are holding their next Open Evening — called Rogues and Royals — on Tuesday 16 March 1993 from 7 — 9.30pm . |
| 29 | If you are buying your second or even third home , we will still offer you improved terms with an advance up to 95% of the purchase price or valuation of the property concerned , whichever is the lower . |
| 30 | He 's been doing it last year on this foot mm , I think it was claw . |