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 .
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