Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training .
2 Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train .
3 The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team .
4 You may sense that your words are tumbling out into a kind of void .
5 Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham .
6 The horses are walking round in a ring then .
7 The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution .
8 Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try .
9 Greece and Cyprus stay hot and dry , but the Balkans and Turkey are cooling off to a nice temperature for hikers .
10 They are mopping up in a southerly direction .
11 Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 .
12 On Friday George Tinsley and John Warnock , of The North Yorkshire Brewing Company , are jetting off to a trade fair in Tokyo to promote the pride and joy of Teesside 's real ale enthusiasts .
13 For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner .
14 The nucleons are whirling about within a sphere of only 10 -15 m at 100 000 km per second .
15 Obviously it is not to be encouraged when you 're walking along with a bird on your glove , because the first thing that happens is the bird takes off .
16 But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally .
17 our next stop is over in Herefordshire at Ross on Wye … we 're meeting up with a young tennis player who 's won himself a place at the world 's top coaching clinic … the story of Tim Bibby is our Friday Feature
18 And if we draw a line it 's the analogy of someone pedalling on a bicycle , if you reach thirty five and you 're going up on a bicycle like that it 's reasonably steep but not too steep , you can cope with that on a regular basis .
19 Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back .
20 Er , yes , Mr Chairman , nationally it is going down , locally we 're , we 're going along on a plateau , erm , and in some areas it is actually go the incidence is going up , but this is basically like Scotland where they have n't got many anyway .
21 Next time , we 're going back with a record player and a Thin Lizzy record , we 're going to plug it in and when he asks what the hell we 're doing , we 'll say , ‘ Just listening to that Les Paul on the wall there ! ' ’
22 Now they 're going back to a sensitive area .
23 Now they 're going back to a sensitive area .
24 We 're going back to a kind of rating system with the different assessment on valuations
25 and she said that 's just not the way it 's done , so she she saying to him now , if you da if you wet yourself once more you 're going back in a nappy .
26 Right we 're going down in a minute , yeah .
27 I er I think erm it 's silly not to have it er when you 're going in for a new set .
28 Has Mum told you that we 're going out for a Chinese ?
29 Underarm deodorant to make us smell nice when we 're going out to a party ?
30 Yes she said we 're going out to a dinner party tonight , I thought golly
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