Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 2 | So a three kilowatt fire is using it at a terrific rate , it 's running away with electricity . |
| 3 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 4 | ‘ Nowadays somebody who uses the word nigger is seen as racist , whereas Biggles is using it in a neutral sense that 's no longer there . ’ |
| 5 | She sounds an emotional mess , and is using you as a substitute for her lost love . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 7 | All it is doing is assembling them into a package . |
| 8 | Is there anything which needs to be cleared up with someone else that is robbing you of a clear conscience ? |
| 9 | Mr Pizzi is replacing them with a main circular space with a two storey-colonnaded façade . |
| 10 | With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys . |
| 11 | That 's left 113 acres of land , so Rover 's owner , British Aerospace , is turning it into a business park . |
| 12 | The Tory party is often an amiable shambles , but the Maastricht process is turning it into a neurotic press gang . |
| 13 | She 's turning me into a wild animal . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell him Edward 's turning it into a conservation area for endangered species . |
| 15 | Our very success is leading us into a dangerous future … |
| 16 | How if he is sending you with a bait to bring Owen to his death under cover of a parley , as the king 's council urged ? |
| 17 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 18 | The announcement managed to elevate the NT import to the level of a strategic operating system for DEC , which is embracing it as a ‘ corporate solution ’ , language rarely heard from DEC 's mouth unless it 's talking about VAX/VMS . |
| 19 | Two five five , the reason why the Executive asked for withdrawal was because it 's moving us a bit too fast along this track , and it 's moving us in a particular direction before we 've had the time to think about whether that 's the right direction to go . |
| 20 | somebody that is doing it as a business , what sort of money are they looking to ? |
| 21 | There 's one scene of four minutes where every third or fourth sentence is ‘ What about the cases ? ’ , referring to what Rita 's character was going to do with her baggage , and it changes so that each person is saying it with a different meaning . |
| 22 | He 's doing it as a wedding present . |
| 23 | It 's treating him like a kid of five or six year old is n't it ? |
| 24 | It 's asking you for a type . |
| 25 | Henry Bromsgrove is taking me to a flapper dance in Chelsea . |
| 26 | When the doctors broke it to him that he would need an operation , his son noted that ‘ he is taking it like a hero . ’ |
| 27 | two , even though you 're both working you ca n't guarantee that both will continue to work , it 's taking it to a real , a realistic level |
| 28 | And he 's chasing them with a brush and saying , come here , an absolute mess ! |
| 29 | ‘ She may be getting plenty of food , but she 's putting it in a poor skin , ’ retorted Sarah . |
| 30 | So Carol 's using the gel and she 's making it into a lather . |