Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] a [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group will be making a marketing push at the Boston Seafood Show next week . |
| 2 | DOCTOR , I 'M FEELING A BIT FAINT . |
| 3 | We were watching a tree pipit in display flight when a sudden downpour took us by surprise and sent us scurrying , as fast as the bossy ground would allow , to the nearest hide . |
| 4 | In order to understand what you would see if you were watching a star collapse to form a black hole , one has to remember that in the theory of relativity there is no absolute time . |
| 5 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 6 | But er she said she 'd been feeling a bit rough recently . |
| 7 | As John Major stood outside No 10 Downing Street speaking to the press on 10 April , I was helping a friend put together a letter addressed to the housing department of Brighton Council . |
| 8 | The closest I came to anything clinical was watching a nurse shave the chest of a Lebanese businessman , so that she could attach the electrodes required for an ECG — I held the kidney dish into which the used razor was deposited . |
| 9 | When Creed called , Jed was watching a news report about a vulture who 'd just been arrested on a murder charge . |
| 10 | I COULD N'T tell whether I was watching a world title fight or Come Dancing last weekend . |
| 11 | I was watching a card trick one of the soldiers was showing me and did not look up until the cart had almost passed the window . |
| 12 | But I was feeling a bit tense and restless , and did n't feel like being alone or sitting still . |