Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [v-ing] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE FRANK & WALTERS are using MORRISSEY as a shinty stick and BETTY BOO is exchanging make-up tips with RICHEY MANIC . |
| 2 | The complainants including French floppy disk maker RPS and firms from Italy and Germany , claim far eastern manufacturers are flooding Europe with cut-price floppies in contravention of existing EC regulations . |
| 3 | Northamptonshire are playing Warwickshire at Edgebaston . |
| 4 | British footie fans were combing Europe for new styles a decade ago , says Peter Hooton ( above ) , who documented the rise of the humble sports shoe via his fanzine , The End |
| 5 | Warm dark eyes were subjecting Caroline to a friendly appraisal . |
| 6 | David Walker 's playing Lucius in the English Shakespeare Company 's production of Julius Caesar . |
| 7 | Now , ( a ) Yvonne has had a row with Dulcie and wo n't do her ballet , and ( b ) as the Ballet Club is producing Igor in July , they wo n't let it out again so soon . |
| 8 | When , Mrs Fairfax is showing Jane over the house |
| 9 | Despite his frequent boasts about the progress made under his rule , Ceauşescu was turning Romania into a steadily ‘ under-developing nation ’ ( to use Alec Douglas-Home 's felicitous phrase ) and taking it backwards . |
| 10 | Lucy was treating Jay like a delightful new acquaintance she could n't quite place or fit into her life . |
| 11 | On the other side of the room , an ancient dame was regarding Theda with a fixed stare while she slowly plied a fan before her face . |
| 12 | It appeared that this setting was providing Suzy with an audience to which she gladly reacted . |
| 13 | The immediate reason for the outbreak of war was the French king 's confiscation of the Duchy of Aquitaine on the ground that Edward was harbouring Robert of Artois , a rebellious vassal of the French king who had fled to England in 1336 after being condemned as a traitor . |
| 14 | Later that day , in the early afternoon , Matey was instructing McAllister in how to knit — something which had been left out of her previous education . |
| 15 | On July 30 Georgian President Givi Gumbaridze warned that the action was threatening Georgia with anarchy and " armed conflict " , but with some 25,000 travellers and 500,000 tons of cargo stranded on trains the authorities capitulated on July 31 after negotiations with opposition leaders . |
| 16 | Caldaire management are visiting Westminster for talks with transport minister Roger Freeman who they hope will help overcome the financial hurdles . |
| 17 | over at Milton Keynes England are playing Ireland at Hockey … |
| 18 | THE BEATLES are suing Sony over their release of an archive bootleg , ‘ The Beatles Live At the Star Club — 1962 ’ . |
| 19 | They also believed that other countries were overtaking Britain in every way ; , and of course , as in the 1950s and 1960s , the fallacy of a ‘ declining share ’ of world trade etc. was easy to convey and difficult to expose . |
| 20 | Frank is educating Rita in this superb play which provides lots of humour as well as the underlying pathos of two people struggling with changes which mean their lives will never be the same again . |
| 21 | ‘ Say Markham is paying Wheeler or Wheeler is paying Markham for services rendered and say Paul was implicated either way , might not Rosamund know about it , if it involved money going into or out of any of Wheeler 's accounts ? ’ |
| 22 | Queen Elizabeth of England was visiting Amsterdam for the William and Mary celebrations — three-hundred years of English-Dutch friendship — so us Dutch queens planned our own reception for her . |
| 23 | A girl was playing Chopin in the concert room as Erika went into the lounge . |
| 24 | It was all clear now — why Jake was marrying Janice in spite of the lack of love between them . |
| 25 | Football this afternoon Scarborough are playing Bury at the McCain Stadium so you can expect some extra traffic in Scarborough town centre with that football . |
| 26 | And Mavis is selling Pravda to the tractor factory men |
| 27 | In the following example the teacher is drawing Raymond into an activity , in the hope that it will lead to further thought . |
| 28 | I mean what they 're considering at the moment is making Trumpton into a live-section , full-blown Broadway show , with perhaps a major star playing the train driver . |
| 29 | Armenia is begging Russia to recommission two old reactors that had been shut down for good in 1988 under popular pressure . |
| 30 | Now that Ferrari is virtually certain to stay with Goodyear in 1992 , Pirelli is courting Benneton with promises of ‘ exclusive ’ tyres that would not be available to other ‘ customer ’ teams . |