Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [indef pn] in the " in BNC.
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1 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
2 | But I think we 're seeing something in the Forest side we have n't see for what twelve fourteen years are we . |
3 | I think there 's still too much ‘ You do that , you do this ’ in the big record companies , but that 's bollocks too , because without the artists knowing what they 're doing nobody in the record company would have a job . ’ |
4 | I 'm wanting one in the kitchen . |
5 | Since the ubiquitous Robert Goodwill ( Tory , Redcar ) keeps asking us his Labour opponent 's whereabouts , we can tell him that Marjorie Mowlam will be having one in the Punch Bowl too . |
6 | Not that I will be changing anything in the immediate area of the shelf at the base of which the bait lies , but I thought it better to give the carp a profound liking for the swim before even one stalk of rush or one lily pad was removed . |
7 | Will be crossing everything in the hope of a last minute reprieve . |
8 | We 're not talking of a conversion of ten to fifteen thousand dwellings with erm new building being reduced considerably , we are talking something in the order of magnitude of what has been happening in the past . |
9 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |
10 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
11 | And I said , If somebody 's serving somebody in the shop and perhaps they you know two of three of them perhaps together , I said , but do n't talk in the shop I said , go through to the back if you want to chat . |
12 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
13 | Claire is sewing something in the comer . |
14 | The appeal runs until the end of this year and is asking everyone in the country to take part in a sponsored swim . |
15 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
16 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
17 | I walked in there and I can se he had a he had a er some copies and and er he was getting one in the bloody phone ! |
18 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |
19 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
20 | He jumped out of the van and pulled off a sack that was hiding something in the back of the truck . |
21 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
22 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |