Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 2 | From the times of the original Glasgow Harbour at the Broomielaw in the 1660s , the atmosphere of the Clydeside had been acquiring something of the West Indies , the South China Sea , the coasts of Africa and India , and all the magic , terror and richness of the seven seas of the world . |
| 3 | But I think we 're seeing something in the Forest side we have n't see for what twelve fourteen years are we . |
| 4 | And I think that is the message which I want to get over to you , because if you can find that way to tread that difficult line which is there in our society which is over-protective , over-secretive , which is concerned about not not letting people unless they 're of a certain rank , level or certain job , speak out publicly unless you can break through it I think you 're actually , first of all , denying something for yourselves , and that you 're denying something for the public at large . |
| 5 | Normally you would n't be seen dead doing a knees bend keeping your back straight , but if you 're getting something off the bottom shelf you wo n't look ridiculous at all . |
| 6 | They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally . |
| 7 | And we 're doing something on the character of the Christian , er I ca n't , obedience , , righteousness is one and I ca n't remember what the other is . |
| 8 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 9 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 10 | It helps to solve our problems with Chrissie and Fred by making it clear that we are doing something about the food costs . |
| 11 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
| 12 | Said Professor Hoskins of the University of Reading : " We know that human activities are doing something to the system but computer models are too crude at present to predict what will happen . " |
| 13 | She seemed to be deciding something about the knitting in her lap . |
| 14 | It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia . |
| 15 | I would n't put it past him to be slipping something into the juice when nobody 's looking . |
| 16 | To the extent to which it makes sense to speak of interactions between whole nations at all , we suggest that the two superpowers and their allies may indeed be playing something like the paranoids ' hypergame . |
| 17 | Visible now only in the panoramic view , the young woman appeared to be throwing something towards the few remaining Counsellors . |
| 18 | Michael Middleton has argued that Minton 's search for stimuli in exotic places and his febrile manner of living reflects a longing to escape self-consciousness and to live in the moment : ‘ He was for ever dashing off , afraid he might be missing something round the corner — another party , an evening at the Jazz Club , a drink on the Soho circuit . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 21 | Under the presiding genius of Roger , bishop of Salisbury , Henry 's most brilliant administrator — said to have been first chosen as chaplain by Henry ( whose tastes were different from the Confessor 's ) for the speed with which he could finish his mass — the English financial departments were achieving something of the efficiency and maturity of their Sicilian counterparts . |
| 22 | He 's writing something for the films , he says . |
| 23 | One 42-year-old market trader who did not want to be named , said : ‘ It is good to know that there is someone who is doing something about the problem . ’ |
| 24 | Locke 's philosophy about property accepted the settlers ' point of view : in his theory it is the man on the spot who is doing something to the land ( though mainly by directing the labour of the people he has brought over at his own expense ) who is justly entitled to ownership . |
| 25 | But in the second the word ‘ ride ’ suggests that the man is doing something to the horse . |
| 26 | Claire is sewing something in the comer . |
| 27 | We erm of course , this is besides the ordinary classes that they take erm now I believe there 's doing something for the erm , what was the one I looked at on the board the other day for tracing your ancestors back , you know . |
| 28 | I i it 's saying something about the motivation of the people who who are doing this , those peasants who were taking the lead and becoming members of the Party . |
| 29 | But it sounds to me as though it 's taking something off the telephone , which is simple in n it ? |
| 30 | On the local front , Peter Spratt refers to the company 's recent work on behalf of Mace , and he says that there is early evidence that the Mace ‘ Gerry Anderson ’ campaign is conveying something of the pleasure of grocery shopping , as well as making an important statement about branded merchandise and value for money . |