Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 4 | In the extracts from cases and other materials which follow , where the term ‘ sovereignty ’ is used , the judges or writers are using it in the sense of supremacy . |
| 5 | However , I am doing as the Daily Mirror suggested , and am contacting you in the hope that you can give me the answer . |
| 6 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 7 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 8 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 9 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 10 | I thought he would , he deserves it and suddenly the semi-circle is clapping and looking at me : ‘ She 's won , she 's a-a-a won , ’ I hear John shout from half-way up the stalls , and my fellow contestants are slapping me on the back and pushing me to the front of the stage , |
| 11 | Oh , I 've no doubt that somewhere down the line these things are are built it , but what I 'm saying is that the majority of dealers these days are including it within the package and saying look this vehicle comes with it completely because there is such erm a demand for this erm type of insurance . |
| 12 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 14 | He said When they are stabbing you in the back and behaving totally idiotically . |
| 15 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 16 | But I have met your brother at long last and Mrs Powers has been regaling me with the most fascinating pieces of village gossip . ’ |
| 17 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 18 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 19 | Observing that " governments of the world stand in danger of sabotaging the hope of a new era of human rights " , it asserted that " some are sabotaging it by the violations they commit directly , others by the selectivity with which they exert their influence " . |
| 20 | Why is it that some general secretaries of certain unions are pushing us down the path of severing our links ? |
| 21 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 22 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 23 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 24 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 25 | Carbohydrates provide a good energy supply for the body as they 're converted into glucose , but make sure you 're eating it in the right forms . |
| 26 | Every other day we 're using it at the moment . |
| 27 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 28 | So we 're testing , those priorities are still holding for us that but we 're applying them to the localities . |
| 29 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 30 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |