Example sentences of "[coord] [indef pn] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 2 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 3 | Five and six in the morning , and you 're always waking up in the middle of the night cos you do n't know , you know , if summat 's happened or summat 's gon na happen . |
| 4 | Diana , for instance , is quoted as saying : ‘ I just love it when I arrive somewhere and everyone is waiting with their tongues hanging out . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm an old man , and everyone is dying around me . |
| 6 | ALREADY We have n't even started , and everyone is talking about TODAY 's Cellulite Roadshow . |
| 7 | Right now the development game is ‘ in ’ and everyone 's jumping on the bandwagon . |
| 8 | and everyone 's saying to me , no you know , she 's kissing Pat Swayze it 's something that happened . |
| 9 | A band was playing and everyone was talking at increased volume to make themselves heard above it . |
| 10 | When the dance ended and everyone was standing in clusters , sweating and smiling and breathing heavily , he sang out in a high voice with a laugh in it — |
| 11 | Let's now come back to this quiff analysis where John was confused and everyone was explaining to each other . |
| 12 | 1 You work in an estate agency and someone is looking for a property for £30,000 . |
| 13 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 14 | There 's a lovely erm James Thurber cartoon which shows somebody sitting in a room and there 's a lovely party going around and everybody else is talking very animatedly and somebody 's looking over their shoulder and saying contemptuously , ‘ He does n't know anything except facts . ’ |
| 15 | And somebody 's gon na do the windows are n't they ? |
| 16 | and you went to and somebody was living in there |
| 17 | I felt helpless in the face of my own infantile bad temper and sulkiness ; I could remember exactly how I 'd felt when I was six , and somebody was trying to cajole me into doing something I did n't want to do … in a minute , I thought in some recess of my mind , I 'll be stamping and shouting , " Wo n't ! " |
| 18 | And somebody was gon na go and review the relevance to this organization , so that we could determine what we did about it . |
| 19 | And nobody 's gon na give me nothing for that are they ? |
| 20 | One 's for listening and one 's talking into . |
| 21 | Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education . |
| 22 | A mosquito probably registers about ten or twenty decibels , and this could be very annoying if you were trying to sleep and one was buzzing around you , but in our trade we 're normally talking about a level of perhaps sixty or seventy decibels which is tolerable and the sort of noise perhaps we 're making at the moment . |
| 23 | And one was going to but it off them for two hundred and fifty thousand so my mate said , You make the offer at two hundred and fifty and you 'll help me , so I says , I 'm getting it for two hundred if I say , an eighteen hole golf course , and I 'll sell it back to them when they can afford to buy it back off me , right ? |
| 24 | one , and one was sitting on my fence , there , so I banged on the window and said get off the fence ! |
| 25 | And something was happening to that door ; something that he could n't make out , because it was screened by their bodies . |
| 26 | I must n't get too excited , but I ca n't help it — I 'm going to be back home soon and everything 's going to be OK . |
| 27 | Easter had been set as the tentative date to ‘ roll-in ’ the first aircraft and everything was looking on course for this . |
| 28 | Not her grandfather ; not when she had come to fetch him ; not at last when he was going to live with her and everything was going to be all right . |
| 29 | Everything was waiting for you , she pointed out , and everything was going to be all right . |
| 30 | I mean and everybody 's looking for that dream amount are n't they . |