Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun prp] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we get back to the tent Stig is limping badly and when Odd-Knut looks he finds he is bleeding profusely . |
| 2 | A Georgian TV source said : ‘ We can not possibly afford the money Linfield are asking . |
| 3 | The couple rent a home in the resort Joe is appearing for the summer . |
| 4 | They saw the damage Hitler was doing . |
| 5 | The field Taff was referring to certainly had animals in it , but they were all lying on their backs , their legs in the air , dead for at least three or four days . |
| 6 | When he left the apartment Maidstone was snoring . |
| 7 | In the kitchen Jos was listening to the wireless while he filled in his pools coupons . |
| 8 | In the kitchen Tristan was lying on his back amid a litter of pans and dishes . |
| 9 | In the kitchen Maude was singing softly as she baked bread , its sweet , fresh scent filling the house . |
| 10 | By the time he reappears in the kitchen Millie is watching him closely and Anne is frowning slightly ; they have seen immediately that there is something different about him . |
| 11 | But it is a measure of the difficulty Galileo was working under that , despite several audiences with the new pope , he was unable to ease the ban . |
| 12 | She tried to make allowances , constantly reminding herself of the responsibility Nathan was carrying and how long he had been without sleep . |
| 13 | He did not feel hungry , and the alcohol sent his imagination soaring into the smoky roof beams , so that he lost the thread of the story Ratagan was telling him — the one about the Dwarf and the Firewood , he thought muzzily . |
| 14 | But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell . |
| 15 | And I 'd just like to take the opportunity to er emphasise the point that I have been making at this E I P that erm r regional migration from the West Yorkshire is reducing and we do n't want to create a magnet which reverses that trend . |
| 16 | He seemed unaware of the noise Damian was making . |
| 17 | Classified by Japanese officials as " reactor grade " not " weapons grade " , the shipments had nevertheless triggered concern among critics of nuclear proliferation who warned that some countries had fabricated crude nuclear devices from plutonium of the kind Japan was shipping . |
| 18 | The London governors were by now contemplating extreme measures but they could not persuade the Royal Agricultural Society of England to provide support of the kind Dick was getting in Scotland and their veiled threats in the petition were likewise unsuccessful . |
| 19 | But the part Micky 's playing … why not ? ’ |
| 20 | But Hughes is adamant that despite their glittering array of striking talent with himself , Ryan Giggs , Ian Rush and Dean Saunders in the side Wales are taking nothing for granted . |
| 21 | It is not clear whether the condition Smart is describing was purely physical , or of a psychotic nature , but two verses suggest he was mentally as well as physically afflicted in 1756 : |
| 22 | We 'll have the tea Maggie is making . ’ |
| 23 | This passage helps us to understand the dilemma Poulantzas is trying to solve . |
| 24 | Mrs Eales noted the car Fawcett was driving and police later stopped it . |
| 25 | In the car Maisie was studying her music . |
| 26 | Moments earlier Amanda 's husband Tony had stopped outside the Comfort Inn car park to let the car Keith was driving go first . |
| 27 | This response ignores the fact that the study BP is proposing to fund is essential to accompany any mining application BP eventually makes as part of its environmental impact assessment . |
| 28 | As part of the deal Courtaulds is relinquishing its minority shareholding in CEPI . |
| 29 | Dexter had n't heard the tape Blanche was playing before . |
| 30 | The German mortaring had suddenly stopped and the Brigade Major was standing out in the open talking to an Officer when , just as suddenly , the mortars started up again , sending their bombs swishing through the trees and sending the Brigade Major diving for cover . |