Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been looking for a pair of doctor martins ca n't find any . |
| 2 | I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee , |
| 3 | I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee . |
| 4 | I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’ |
| 5 | It is at times suggested that the security forces are operating under a series of shackles , which it is sometimes suggested are of a political nature . |
| 6 | He 'd been living in a £500-a-week hotel suite in Nottingham , spending £2,000 a month on clothes . |
| 7 | He says we 're looking at a $20,000 Sandpiper and a $25,000 Flamingo at the entry-level now . |
| 8 | Twenty ones , unless you 're playing for a pair of notes . |
| 9 | We are aiming for a $300-million improvement in pre-tax profits by 1995 . |
| 10 | Scottish fishermen 's representatives are opposing an all-out ban and are calling for a series of restrictions on imports until there is a balanced supply at the markets . |
| 11 | France has been suffering from a series of dry winters , since that of 1988-89 . |
| 12 | On a somewhat more profane note , stars Paul Jones and Elaine Delmar will be appearing in a series of open-air concerts dedicated to the work of Cole Porter , with the title Let's Do It . |
| 13 | Any goal of mine which I have allowed to be chosen for me by others , even if I think of it as an end in itself , can only be serving as a means to something else which my private test does confirm as wanted for its own sake . |
| 14 | The out-of-contract midfielder is still waiting for the offer of a new deal from the Geordies and could be heading for a £1m-plus move . |
| 15 | The out-of-contract midfielder is still waiting for the offer of a new deal from the Geordies and could be heading for a £1m-plus move . |
| 16 | I think I 'm turning into a sheep ! |
| 17 | The drink made me excited and confused so that time seemed to be moving in a series of huge uneasy jerks , sometimes accelerating wildly and sometimes standing absolutely still . |
| 18 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 19 | ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’ |
| 20 | He seems to be talking in a series of jumpy thoughts . |
| 21 | And then it is clear how Darwin has come to be thinking of a species as a population of individuals , with each member differing from every other because arising in a unique sequence of influences exerted by a unique succession of conditions and mates . |
| 22 | The shoal has taken up residence in one particular area of the canal and are congregating in a 6ft deep hole a yard from the far bank reed bed at Plex Lane . |
| 23 | The investigators are embarking on a series of related micro studies of wages at plant level — taking some ( small ) firms where bargaining is weak or absent , and others where it is dominant . |
| 24 | Instead we are talking about a series of complex configurations of politics , economics and ideology that recursively interact to guarantee that it is not possible to understand what is happening in the local economies of Glasgow , Liverpool or Birmingham in the UK or Baltimore , New York or Toronto in North America without reference to inner city policies wedded to a particular form of symbolic , frequently spectacular , regeneration . |
| 25 | She looked as if she were drowning in a goldfish tank . |
| 26 | By the decade 's end , shares in America 's packaged-food firms were trading at a 30% premium to Standard & Poor 's 500-stock index . |
| 27 | It 's just possible that when the two of you were hunting for a means of rescuing the marchioness she could have pulled herself out and reached firm ground . " |
| 28 | The press gave the impression that governors were going through a series of complicated changes and that new puzzles and ambiguities about their powers were being constantly revealed . |
| 29 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century both the Foxton and the Watford lock flights were getting into a series state of disrepair and were leaking badly . |
| 30 | I 'm about to invest in a brand new , superduper , anti-obsolescence computer and I feel as confident as if I were shopping for a pair of skis . |