Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 2 | this action is impossible if you either a ) do not hold the latch tool correctly ( the handle of the tool should be resting in the palm of your hand with the thumb uppermost and on top of the latch area of the tool ) or b ) if you do not apply some downward pressure to the knitted fabric with your free hand . |
| 3 | Even in the at-ease position Felix seemed to be jogging on the spot . |
| 4 | What Gandhi may be suggesting by the statement that the road one takes is unimportant provided the goal is achieved is that too much importance can be attached to particular religions , especially when it might result in exclusivist claims being made on behalf of those religions . |
| 5 | The members will be helping with the coffee bar at the Fringe shows . |
| 6 | ‘ You boys are supposed to be helping with the washing up , ’ said Mrs Crumwallis , in the tones of an aggrieved crow . |
| 7 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 8 | They will be competing at the Haribo meet in Bonn , where the German World Cup fixture has been held for the past four years and where many world and European records have been broken . |
| 9 | Two weeks after the premature birth of her fourth child , Eleanor Adams-Robinson , Britain 's finest female , ultra-runner , is back on the road and expects to be competing at the European 100K Championships in Holland in September . |
| 10 | Some 16 town criers from all over the country , including the world 's loudest , will be competing for the trophy . |
| 11 | The interior of the church — reached by going through an ornate entrance archway that seems to be competing with the presbytery doorway for the eye of the visitor — has some good frescoes , particularly the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Baptist by Giovan Battista Crespi , and a canvas study of the Nativity by Marco d'Oggiono . |
| 12 | ‘ You could be competing in the backstroke at Southport , and then have to travel to Cleethorpes or Torquay for the free style or breaststroke . |
| 13 | But Mr Jim Mattox , one of the two Democrats who will be competing in the run-off election for the party 's nomination on April 10th , tried in similar vein to take credit for executions even though , as Texas 's attorney-general , he is involved with civil cases , not criminal ones . |
| 14 | Ernst & Young and Touche Ross are among the hundreds of organisations and businesses that will be competing in the World Corporate Games in London this autumn . |
| 15 | The station will be up for grabs on 19 November when teams from C&L and other companies will be competing in the City Monopoly Challenge at the Honourable Artillery Company to raise money for Children With Leukaemia . |
| 16 | Teams from a wide variety of organisations will be competing throughout the afternoon to do battle with the Duke . |
| 17 | When she examined his eye she saw the splinter , a tiny coil of metal shaving which appeared to be sticking to the iris . |
| 18 | Oh no er necessarily not , because er depending on the details of the er formula that all the words that er come out of the discussions today , er it 's got to be discussed by the members at grass-roots level , and if we 're not happy with it , we will be sticking to the action er certainly up until when the ballot is taken and if it is voted against er any deal that is struck at the moment , we will continue the action , and I think this will be not only in Oxfordshire , but up and down the country , the strength of feeling nationally is very strong . |
| 19 | Each vertical square can represent one , two , four , six or eight rows of actual knitting , depending on the knitting technique you are going to be using with the design . |
| 20 | It does n't take too much imagination to guess that this means ‘ draw a circle centred at x = 10.5 , y = 24.75 , and of radius 3.9 , in whatever units we happen to be using at the moment ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ My best bikes are over here and they are the ones I shall be using in the world championship . |
| 22 | I believe the Army should be building on the team they have here , not relocating to Glasgow . ’ |
| 23 | For example , the profits of the manufacturer introduced in Section 9.1 might be depending on the state of the market in which he sells his goods . |
| 24 | Now would be her favoured time , now when the brothers would be gathering in the church for Compline . |
| 25 | In this respect , there were many at the meeting ( including me ) who felt the least we should be demanding of the industry and the regulators ( the DTI ) was that only the very highest environmental standards currently practised internationally ( the Norwegian oil field was given as a good example ) would be acceptable for operations in Cardigan Bay . |
| 26 | In this respect , there were many ( including me ) who felt the least we should be demanding of the industry and the regulators ( the DTI ) was that only the very highest environmental standards currently practised internationally ( the Norwegian oil field was given as a good example ) would be acceptable for operations in Cardigan Bay . |
| 27 | Those who hope the discovery of commercial qualities of oil off the coastline of Wales will usher in an era of employment and prosperity , must surely be reflecting on the price being paid by the Shetland islanders in the wake of the Braer disaster . |
| 28 | All through the valley people would be reflecting on the brevity of life and their own missed chances at happiness , and thinking of their common frailty in the shadow of the dark beast that had passed so close and taken someone so young . |
| 29 | The computer would be burbling away and the lights would be fluttering around the console . |
| 30 | An act carried out by a partner in the usual course of the business of the firm will be binding on the firm notwithstanding that the partner concerned lacked the necessary authority unless the third party knew of the limitation to that partner 's authority or did not know or believe him to be a partner . |