Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm not the best in the world at having somebody else living in the house . |
| 2 | Mrs thinks that that is best provided by two carers living in the house , each on duty for half the week , such carers being directly employed by the , by contrast Mrs says that an agency should provide a carer all the time from its available pool , she envisages that in practice three or four carers would share the work , they differ over the full number of hours care to be provided by hired carers , Mrs envisages seventeen hours a day in total , Mrs ten hours , again I emphasize that the artificiality of the working in precise number of hours , where you have somebody actually living in the house all the time and available to er carry out active care at any time , but of course carers are not always having to do things which might be described as active care . |
| 3 | What , what 's , what were you actually doing in the navy ? |
| 4 | The definition of the support 's ordinal rank involves situating the support ( = the person spoken about ) with respect to the speaking relationship : the verb can be predicated of the speaker ( person spoken of = speaker ) , of the person to whom he is speaking ( person spoken of = the one spoken to ) , of someone or something not participating in the act of speech ( person spoken of = neither speaker nor person spoken to ) , etc . |
| 5 | and because of the ineptitude of the leadership of the T U C , that opportunity has been lost and what are we also seeing in the public sector ? |
| 6 | ‘ In that case , you should never have taken me out sailing in the first place ! ’ |
| 7 | For weeks it would go on like this and then suddenly one day you would notice him just lying in the sun instead of studying his map , or reading a novel instead of his German grammar . |
| 8 | If Ministers are serious about wanting us not to be governed by unaccountable bureaucrats , why are they not leading in the argument that those decisions that have to be taken at European level are fully accountable to a stronger European Parliament that is elected by a fair system ? |
| 9 | A former international sportsman who was stabbed while he was out jogging says the attack has n't put him off running in the future . |
| 10 | They were ambling back , Joanna and her late hot lover , a tinker by the look of him , sodden with sex , Hope thought , she too carelessly satiated to fasten her dress properly , he altogether swaggering in the success of his rut . |
| 11 | perhaps she thought , that 's it , I bet she writes it down chatting in the exam . |
| 12 | ‘ Is he still working in the factory ? ’ |
| 13 | Was he actually fighting in the First World War or ? |
| 14 | It came to rest and then there was nothing else moving in the intense heat of the late morning Egyptian sun . |
| 15 | It causes no pollution , either in terms of fuel consumption or noise , yet finding yourself suddenly cowering in the shadow of a huge coloured parachute at the top of a hill where you imagined yourself to be alone , bursts the illusionary balloon of solitude and remote wilderness for me . |
| 16 | As well as simply receiving investment from abroad , these countries are also home to fledgling multinationals of their own which are , in turn , themselves now investing in the rest of the region . |
| 17 | This is where we live , and for those of us not dwelling in the inner city or immobilised with fear by the threat of atomic war , modernity is really quite comfortable . |
| 18 | We did of course have problems : the concrete for the foundations arrived an hour early , and caught us frantically putting in the underslab insulation ; the existing house was about three inches out of square ; and the bricks we wanted were out of production . |
| 19 | Now is anything else happening in the sporting world tonight Mickey ? |