Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm yeah , tomorrow 's basically horrendously busy and I 'm temping the next two days , but I 'm free in the evenings . |
| 2 | I 'm saying the next appointment to be made is all by , a complaint examiner , what I should n't have thought we wanted to do at the moment more than one . |
| 3 | ‘ Some swine stole her and ran her on to a coral reef , ’ I said , ‘ and I 'm spending the next two months mending her . ’ |
| 4 | I were flying the next day to Benidorm I 've had trouble all the time with me back |
| 5 | The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died . |
| 6 | I was digging the last row next to the gravel path when my father returned . |
| 7 | I was quite wet when I was drinking the first Martini . |
| 8 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
| 9 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
| 10 | Jane also felt she was not really in a position to refuse : ‘ I was missing the fifth years , which meant I had lots of ‘ free time ’ , so I was in a position where really I could n't refuse to do it . ’ |
| 11 | I I found it when I was driving the last time . |
| 12 | If the interviewer remains silent then look at her or him as if you are expecting the next move to come from their side . |
| 13 | For those who care about such things a little bleeper has just come onto the market to enable you to check that you are following the two-second rule that the police recommend . |
| 14 | When you are doing the first draft , label as many points on the axes as possible . |
| 15 | A quick and efficient recovery immediately after the race will mean that by the time you 're on your way home , you are planning the next marathon . |
| 16 | Once you are starting the second year at the school you see faces that are familiar and through brothers and sisters who are in the years above you get to know them . |
| 17 | the first bit yeah you 're remembering the last bit when you 're remembering that you 've forgot the first bit . |
| 18 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
| 19 | Well look , if if you 're wanting the next thing to do , I mean you 've done that for seventh year |
| 20 | AS YOU WERE reading the last issue of Wood News with your feet up and drinking a cup of hot coffee , John Hill , coupling machine operator at Fireater , was running through the cold , wet weather of Great Yarmouth in training for the London marathon . |
| 21 | With her uplifted left foot she was shoving the next foster mother square in the mouth . |
| 22 | She was organising the next bout , to take place soon after the election , shortly before she died . |
| 23 | She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch . |
| 24 | Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there ! |
| 25 | She could n't quite believe she was taking the first few tentative steps back towards her marriage . |
| 26 | It was late in the day and she was taking the last of the sun . |
| 27 | Lisa Isherwood of Wales sustained a broken leg during a Home International foursomes tie against Scotland , after she slipped and fell on wet ground as she was leaving the 8th green . |
| 28 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 29 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 30 | For what Mrs Maugham thought one week to be wholly disgraceful , she was praising the next , and with no apparent consciousness of discrepancy . |