Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 2 | Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things . |
| 3 | Hewlett Packard and Apricot , both of whom are going with the Aldus/Microsoft package , are rather more conservative and reckon perhaps 15 to 20 each . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , the more moderate of them are insisting on the maintenance of their block votes because the party is still not fully democratic . |
| 5 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 6 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 7 | One of the issues that arises concerning the inhabitants of squatter settlements is integration into city life , since many of them are migrants and all of them are living in an area which is peripheral , in terms of city services and location . |
| 8 | Most of them are sticking to a policy , adopted during the Falklands war , of not stocking war games until the war is over . |
| 9 | Four of them are bubbling around the kitchen and the other two are in the front room keeping an eye on the visitors , roped up on the floor watching two blacks the size of quarter-backs shaking through their jackets . |
| 10 | And what about overtime on Sa I mean at the moment some of them are working during the week and Saturdays and they need that to maintain the sort of service level that we 're doing at the moment . |
| 11 | Aycliffe and I are trying for a way to have the will stand . |
| 12 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 13 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 14 | And now , on a clear morning , Graham Little and I are sitting at the bottom of the wall , fit and ready to go , and the wall is plastered with verglas . |
| 15 | Fairfax and I are sitting on the verandah at Folly Farm . |
| 16 | Mary saw the scribbled-over envelope , smiled and said , " Reggie and I are going to the Greenpeace demo tomorrow afternoon . " |
| 17 | ‘ Pettigrew and I are going for a stroll , ’ said Mark , who had been finding the atmosphere of the tea room rather oppressive and not really what he had come to Rome for . |
| 18 | At the moment he and I are working on a scheme which could wreck this political organisation for good . |
| 19 | ‘ I am thinking about no one . ’ |
| 20 | I am thinking about the table that is |
| 21 | I am thinking of a scene at this police post , the arrest of Tepilit , the intervention of Fairfax , the impressive dignity of the accused and the relentless , incomprehensible workings of the white man 's justice . |
| 22 | " I am thinking of a number , I then multiply it by seven and add on five " . |
| 23 | 2 I am thinking of a number g . |
| 24 | 4 I am thinking of a number d . |
| 25 | I am thinking of a feeling of confidence which has been built up and which it would take some drastic change to break down . |
| 26 | I am thinking of the death of Primo Levi , an autobiographer , and by certain standards an amateur ; of the threatened death of the novelist Salman Rushdie ; and of the discovery of the fascist sympathies formerly exhibited by the literary theorist Paul de Man . |
| 27 | Conversely , national issues which were serious or even explosive before 1914 have receded : I am thinking of the famous ‘ Macedonian Question ’ , the Ukraine , or even the demand for the restoration of historic Poland . |
| 28 | ‘ I am thinking of the children of Sarajevo , of Banja Luka , of the peoples of Bosnia , ’ he said . |
| 29 | I am thinking of the child becoming part of a new family so that the new parents become the ‘ psychological parents ’ , and thus offer a sense of security , a sense of belonging , of being loved , until the child reaches adulthood and beyond . |
| 30 | Here I am thinking of the definition of race exclusively in terms of culture and identity which ties certain strands in antiracism to the position of some of the new right ideologues . |