Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group , at No. 1 with Ebeneezer Goode , are sending a consignment of albums , tapes and relief aid to the country after receiving letters from fans saying Shamen music is helping them through their troubles . |
| 2 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 3 | He is using them like puppets . |
| 4 | Dan Goldin , the self-professed ‘ agent of change ’ who has been NASA 's administrator for a year , is using it as an opportunity to demonstrate what NASA could be capable of . |
| 5 | Restaurant chain TGI Friday 's is using it for its first UK ad campaign , launched this month . |
| 6 | These are claimed by the purchaser of an industrial building who is using it for his or her own trade or leasing it to another for that person 's trade , at the rate of 4% per annum on cost . |
| 7 | The system is using it for itself , but you can not run away from the fact that it has helped a lot of women to pursue careers rather than to sit down and nurse babies . |
| 8 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 9 | So a three kilowatt fire is using it at a terrific rate , it 's running away with electricity . |
| 10 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 11 | A vet has borrowed medical technology normally seen in maternity hospitals and is using it on farms to bring more certainty to lambing . |
| 12 | IBM is using it in its new X terminals but says it will probably migrate to PowerPC 601s when it 's got volumes . |
| 13 | More likely he is using it in the more everyday usage of ‘ not sent or guided in any special direction ; having no definite aim or purpose ’ ( OED ) , which suggests that any such view of history must have no end , and therefore no teleology . |
| 14 | ‘ Nowadays somebody who uses the word nigger is seen as racist , whereas Biggles is using it in a neutral sense that 's no longer there . ’ |
| 15 | She sounds an emotional mess , and is using you as a substitute for her lost love . |
| 16 | The US Internal Revenue Service is accusing him of lying about his accounts from 1983 to 1986 . |
| 17 | ‘ This arrogant upstart here is accusing me of lying . ’ |
| 18 | All right , the little sod 's reminding me of the truth , so I 'll tell it . ) |
| 19 | Another shows the converse , a humanoid god standing between two daemons : he is mastering them by grasping their tongues . |
| 20 | ‘ No , ’ agreed Cheryl , ‘ and that 's the best of all , because Angela 's helping me with my semaphore , which is one of the Challenges I 'm doing on the Brownie Highway . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He 's helping me with my homework , ’ said Camille . |
| 22 | One thing that 's helping me through it , aside from my chats with Irene , is that Tod and I are feeling so damn good these days : physically . |
| 23 | She says she 's called on you already and she 's helping you with your enquiries . |
| 24 | ‘ But he 's helping you with that , is n't he ? ’ |
| 25 | Martin 's phoning me at eight o'clock . |
| 26 | Yeah i well he 's just distressed cos I think Gill 's phoning him in the morning and she said she 'd give him a lift to the hospital . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | What 's that going to do to my reputation if Harry Short 's accusing me of everything short of genocide ? ’ |
| 29 | This month the family of one of his victims is bringing him to trial . |
| 30 | He is reminding us of the way we are coming to the Lord . |